South by Southwest (SXSW: web, twitter) is like a rave party for tech, music and film but startups are the real stars (in particular of the “interactive” segment of SXSW). Twitter (2007) and Foursquare (2009) rose to fame there, as several other startups did over the last few years.
The SXSW Accelerator is a competition …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
Almost one year ago Slideshare was announcing the development of iPad and Iphone apps and just today it sort of backtracked on that decision by announcing that the whole website has been ported away from Flash and to HTML5, so that it will be usable from desktops and ANY mobile device alike (iOS, Android, …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
F8 (web), Facebook’s developer conference, took place today in San Francisco but also all over the world through live streaming… which accounted for 100,000+ simultaneous viewers. Now if you compare that with TV, it does not seem that much but for a tech conference (or any kind of conference for that matter)… that’s huge!
I’m …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
Later this week the first edition of The Conference Basics Tribune (A.K.A. the newsletter) will see the light of day.
You can sign up for the newsletter here.
It will share on a regular basis (but not more than once a month, I promise) a selection of the most relevant articles and resources for conference organizers such …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
This feature has been a big request from event organizers to Foursquare: let us create events within a venue! (It’s been a basic feature in other geolocation services like Gowalla). Users have found workarounds which were far from perfect like creating an event as a venue, but some attendees would check-in to the “event-venue” …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
The team behind the presentation software Prezi published today a free App to view Prezis on the iPad (iTunes link). While the application does not allow you to edit your files (they say it’s coming), you can download the ones stored in your online account to show them on Apple’s tablet.
I’m a long time …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
Too often the Facebook pages of conferences don’t offer much value apart from being a repeater of the news being published somewhere else. At the same time, Facebook holds a big potential as a place where followers can gather and extend (think viral) what your conference is doing by easily …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
Today TED launched a free iPad App (iTunes) that expands their platform for spreading worthy ideas. The app is beautifully and intuitively designed.
The App focuses on just one thing and that is watching talks, but does offer plenty of resources to search and discover new ones. Apart from the “featured” talks, you can search …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
Walt Mossberg (web, twitter) and Kara Swisher (web, twitter) from All Things Digital (and organizers of the conference D: All Things Digital) have just announced a new conference dedicated to mobile technology and devices to be held at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco from December 6-7, 2010: D: Dive Into Mobile Conference.
From the website:
The …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
It seems that Twitter will be soon giving event organizers and attendees an improved tool to follow and share in real time what’s happening at a conference in a much less invasive than live-streaming or proper live-blogging.
“Twitter will get to a billion members,” Twitter co-founder and recently displaced CEO Evan Williams told the crowd …
Subscribe to the Conference Basics Newsletter
The Conference Basics Tribune is a free newsletter specifically made for event organizers -> It includes a selection of articles, tips, recommended mobile apps, books and featured event organizers. Want to see how the newsletter looks like? Here are a few examples.
