TweetThe 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 [...]
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TweetIn a previous article I wrote that the 2010 edition of Le Web had about 3,000 attendees which could be both a networking blessing or a nightmare. For me it was the former as I managed to have those 8 or 10 meaningful meetings that justified my stay in Paris. I was able to do [...]
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TweetToo 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 sharing with their friends. Now [...]
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TweetMost conferences use centralized services like YouTube or Vimeo to share their content. It has the benefit of being a low cost solution easy to implement but two major drawbacks are the lack of customization to match the videos seamlessly to the branding of your website and that you really don’t have full control of [...]
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TweetMobile 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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Tweet 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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TweetThere 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 [...]
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Tweet 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 [...]
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TweetIn 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 [...]
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TweetA 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 [...]
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