The recently launched Lanyrd (web, twitter, blog) -the British cousin of the USA based Plancast- defines itself as “the social conference directory”, a space that was left vacant long ago by Yahoo’s Upcoming. It was founded by real life couple Natalie Downe (twitter) and Simon Willinson (twitter).
The service is still on it’s infancy but …
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Your vote can take me to SXSW! South by Southwest, the festival dedicated to music, film and interactive technology, gives the opportunity to members of the community to propose panel sessions that will be then exposed to a ponderated voting round by the staff (30% weight on the final decision), the board (40%) and …
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Mobile ticketing systems have been around for some years but yet were too complicated for attendees and often required a big investment by the event organizer. Both constraints kept them doing things the good ol’ way but as advanced mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc) become ubiquitous, the possibility of eliminating paper tickets move closer …
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Next Thursday May 6th I’ll be holding a workshop on The Future of Conferences at the prestigious Lift Conference in Geneva. The idea is to develop, together with the attendees, strategies and actions to assess the dynamics that are affecting events and provoke changes that will create an amazing event experience.
From the description on …
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Facebook has launched a new version of Facebook Events, simplifying the process of creating an event to one step.
The most noticeable change is the newly-added ability to create events right from your home page. There is now a box that allows you to type in what you are planning, …
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The event registration and ticketing platform Amiando has announced new Analytics features so that event organizers can create their own reports, charts, etc displaying the event’s statistics.
The new features include (extract):
Detailed online statistics
With amiando’s analytic features you get detailed online statistics of your event. Get a list of all registrations or tickets, …
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The latest newsletter of SlideShare announces that they are working on some kind of non-Flash version in order to support iPhone & iPad browsing.
From the email:
If you have been paying attention to the excited chatter about the iPad, then you have probably know that one of discussed issues is how the internet will …
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A new and exciting event has been launched in Rome: Brain Forum. “The idea is to create a sort of Davos of the brain (referring to the World Economic Forum of Davos, Ed.) or the Roma del Cervello in Italian” says Viviana Kasam, founder of Brain Forum and Brain Circle Italia, a non-profit organization …
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Many of the current western-society’s goals and searches are based in ephemeral values like youth, esthetic beauty, money and status, neglecting an inevitable path that (almost) all of us will walk: aging. Matthias Hollwich, together with the Architectural Department of the University Pennsylvania, has created the New Aging International Conference to deal with the relationship between …
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Chris Anderson, curator of TED Conferences, has just announced on twitter that the TED website has been upgraded to a non-flash version (based on HTML5) that allows you to watch the famous TED Talks on your Apple iPhone (and also in the upcoming iPad). A smart move as the iPad will be hitting the …
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