Building Communities for Attendees and Members

Our event community solution is feature rich and easy to use for attendees, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. In fact, it's probably the easiest and best-looking networking site your attendees will ever use. Even technophobic attendees will appreciate its simple design and be inspired to participate.

We create the branded online community on your terms, automatically integrating data from LinkedIn, Twitter and other social networking services, while including all the event info and resources that your attendees need for a successful event.

Every community member will enjoy everything from match making to learning socially, and even staying connected with their favorite mobile device.

Discovering Other Attendees: Attendee Directory with Photos and Bios

Attendees attend events to make connections, whether they’re speakers, participants or exhibitors. Our event communities help attendees set up bios and upload pictures to invite conversations and networking.

The community directory makes connections through:

• Customized information and tags
• Full biography
• Links to LinkedIn, Facebook and Flickr
• Feeds pulled from Twitter and blogs
• Matchmaking recommendations
• Personalized agendas (My Schedule)
• Threaded conversations

Meeting the Right People

In days of old, two attendees who shared a love of quantum mechanics might pass each other at registration and never make a connection. With our online event community, attendees can “tag” themselves with keywords that show their interests. When two people add the keyword phrase “quantum mechanics” to their tags, the system facilitates an introduction.

Communicating to Interest-Based Groups and Conversations

It’s one thing to broadcast a message about a topic that interests you… it’s another to be dialed into all the places where the conversations are happening. Social networks let users send messages, but our system lets users target conversations to those who share similar interests.

The system offers you:

• One-to-one (private) messaging
• Targeted communications to groups of people (using tag clouds)
• Daily digests emails keep attendees engaged

Keeping Track of the Buzz: Centralized Social Media Feeds

Having a single place that aggregates attendees' blogs and tweets related to the conference makes it easy to stay connected. The online event community:

• Pulls in Twitter feeds and blogs for each attendee
• Showcases conference hashtag tweets on home page
• Provides links to attendee Flickr feeds

Personalized Schedule / Itinerary Builder

Remember the dog-eared, marked-up final program that attendees use to pick out their breakout sessions and set their schedule? Our online event communities take the final program to a new level, allowing attendees to pick sessions, schedule meetings and plan out their time in the expo hall.

Participants can use the itinerary builder to manage and view:

• One-on-one meetings
• List of attendees for each session
• Session descriptions
• Speaker research and pre-session questions
• Presentation materials for downloading
• Wiki area to share ideas and to collaborate
• Exporting capabilities to paper, MS-Outlook and iCal

Mobile Connectivity with the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry

They’re not called smart phones for nothing. More and more conference attendees are carrying smart mobile devices that help them get more out of the event. Our mobile functionality makes on-site connectivity and organization easy with on-the-go access to critical information in a mobile-friendly interface.

From a mobile device, attendees can:

• Access 'My Contacts' and 'My Schedule'
• View complete session information
• Download and view content