Tweet Google announced improved logic branching capabilities for Google forms today. Previously, you had to add an extensive amount of multiple choice questions to the form to direct users to various pages. You can now use a simpler page navigation feature to direct respondents to specific pages. Instead of using multiple choice questions, form creators [...]
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Tweet I spend a lot of time evaluating events and conferences. If I’m going to an event I deeply want to understand the event and how it speaks to me. From an industry perspective I am evaluating events for their approach and how they are managing it. Either way I want a programmatic approach to [...]
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Tweet I see a lot of conference badges. WebEvents Global specializes in print on demand badges that make the conference check-in experience a breeze. I just finished reading a blot post about Book on a Hook, a badge from The Web and Beyond 2010 event, held in Amsterdam. They showcase badge being a useful as [...]
Tweet After writing a little about the pathetic state of event and conference Wifi and 3G Internet I’ve continued going through my notes on this subject. I really need to make progress in this area for events I manage, so I would like to put out the word that I’m looking for partners, both financial [...]
Tweet I was reading The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi) on Cloud Ave yesterday. Several topics I’ve been talking about come to mind: Scalable Internet Connectivity – A blog post I wrote about the disconnect between cloud computing and Internet connectivity. Bottleneck In Cloud Computing Adoption – I’ve read several posts on this, [...]
Tweet One event I am looking forward to is the SXSW 2011 conference. Audrey and I are planning way ahead so that we can attend the Music and Interactive parts of the event. I am very excited about the potential lineup for both tech and music. What also gets me going is the way they [...]
Tweet I review how a lot of events are managed to keep an eye out for best practices. One of the most valuable things an event can do is to video tape each one of its sessions. I’m sure this can be a fairly costly endeavor, but is money well spent. Google goes the extra [...]
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Tweet Email is still the number one tool for managing events and communicating with attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. Social network is definitely the future of the event communication, but until then email rules. Sending out call for papers, speaker, exhibitor, attendee invitations and other emails around a conference can require a well oiled email infrastructure [...]
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Tweet I am doing a lot of research around using social tools in event and conference planning right now. I am researching usage of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social tools in event presentation and speaking at the moment. Planning, preparation and then ultimately presenting a session or keynote at a conference is hard enough. [...]
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Tweet I am doing a lot of research in applications and tools that are available out there for the event and conference industry. I am always evaluating broad categories of event technology, but recently I am focusing on: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Google Wave There are limitless ways you can use these social and 2.0 tools [...]
Tweet We just launched a new web site for our company WebEvents Global. It is a new start for our web presence. We do not really have a need for a web site to market our event management products and services. We rely on worth of mouth and networking in the very close knit event [...]
Tweet I’m not being to formal about my posts coming together from the Google I/O conference. A lot of work this week so I haven’t had time to pull together. So I am just going to rant about a few items randomly. One of them is the network and Internet connectivity at conference centers and [...]
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Tweet Facebook is in the process of launching a new way for people to become fans of Facebook Pages using SMS text messaging. Now events, conferences and tradeshows will be able to get more Facebook fans by asking fans to text fan [your Facebook ID here] to FBOOK (32665). This is going to be a [...]
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Tweet The integration of 3rd party services in our event management platform is a key part of our development strategy. I evaluate new tools I find as well as constantly evaluate existing tools for new ways of using them as part of an event. I was checking out slideshare more becuase I see it used [...]
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Tweet I am playing around with different formulas for exploring and quantifying an event or conferences social media footprint. Definition of event social media footprint: A way of determining the social network and social media reach of an event before, during and after the event. This is an important area that I believe needs to [...]
Tweet I am spending time evaluating and understanding the social footprint of conferences and events. One event I am monitoring right now is the SXSW 2009 event. It is a great candidate because there is a alot of online and social activity around this show. I came across a blog post by Download Squad [...]
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