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Paper Mobile Ticketing for Your Conference

July 29, 2010

in Mobile, News, Software, Tools

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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 to [...]

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My Name is E connects People and Objects in the Physical World

June 27, 2009

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You might think that My Name is E, a Dutch startup, is just an service related to the exchange of social business cards like the that of competitors Poken and Mingle360. While this is true, it is only half of the story. Today it is basically an online platform that allows people to share [...]

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Tools for Live Online Coverage of your Conference

June 17, 2009

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There are plenty of online tools to make the live coverage of your conference over the internet. In this article I have summarized the most useful, powerful and easier to use ones.
The global availability of broadband and a bunch of web 2.0 services have made the live transmission of an event a low cost (if [...]

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Use BuddyPress to create a Social Network around your conference

May 25, 2009

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BuddyPress is a new suite of plugins for WordPress MU (the multi-user version of WordPress) that adds new features that transform your blog/website into a Social Network. These features allow event organizers to support their own community (or build one) with a professional social networking layer, making your conference/s live before, during and after the [...]

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Ebooks as digital handouts for conferences (an idea for the near future)

May 8, 2009

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In a near future, ebooks could have an important role during conferences as they could serve as an interactive “digital handout”, avoiding attendees carrying hundreds of printed pages with them and providing advanced search functions for consultation after the event is over.
Amazon has just presented the Kindle DX ebook reader and everyone is crazy about [...]

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Planning your conference using a Gantt Chart

April 27, 2009

in Basics, Planning, Tools

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A Gantt chart is a key tool for planning and tracking your conference. In its simplest form it works as a schedule management tool that allows to control the milestones and activities related to your conference by tracking the start/end dates and the people directly responsible for each activity.
If you have an engineering or technical [...]

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Poken as a digital social business card for conferences?

April 17, 2009

in Networking, Tools

The Poken is a small cute electronic gadget resembling a USB key that according to the small Swiss company that created it can become your social business card.

It is based on RFID technology and it allows you to share your online social profiles like LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace or instant messaging contact like MSN (much more services are added frequently through Poken’s powerful API that does not require the company to make a partnership agreement with the websites involved).

The Poken resembles a japanized creature with a white four-fingered hand. To connect to a friend you simply have to do a “high-four” between two Poken’s little hands. A light will blink showing the result of the connection and the data communication lasts about one second (it can hold up to 64 profiles at once inside the memory of the Poken). It even has a “discreet mode” so that you can fake a connection with people you don’t really want to share your information with.

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