The Occasion Organiser`s Social Media Software program Characteristic Record
Admin/Configuration
Organisers have the power to allow or disable each function (listed beneath), topic to sure dependencies
Customized Branding
Customized CSS and HTML fields permit the occasion organiser to use the feel and appear of your organisation/occasion together with brand, color scheme, format and extra. Most textual content fields are customisable as effectively
Static Pages
For occasions that don’t already use their very own CMS (e.g. Drupal, WordPress, Radiant, and many others.), we offer a easy static web page module that occasion organisers can use to create their house web page, resort/journey web page(s), sponsor pages (not fan pages) and many others.
I18N
Occasion organisers can configure the suitable date, time and foreign money codecs for the
occasion’s locale. Word: presently, system strings aren’t exported. Nevertheless, occasion organisers could choose to enter textual content in different languages into the configurable textual content fields
Customized Subdomain Integration
Each occasion will get its personal distinctive IP, so most occasions select to make use of our really helpful customized DNS settings to create wise website URLs
Delegate Profiles
Each delegate will get an editable web page with contact data, bio, profile image, and many others. Organisers can apply a default privateness stage after which delegates can customise who can see their info (everyone, solely folks I observe, or no person)
Social Networking
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can observe and be adopted, which opens up the power to swap contact info, ship non-public messages and arrange one-on-one conferences
Messaging
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can ship public messages to a conference-wide messaging space, on particular occasion pages and on sponsor fan pages. They’ll additionally ship public (@) replies and personal/direct messages to people who find themselves following them. Messaging is optionally) built-in with Twitter; nonetheless, individuals who do not use Twitter can nonetheless use our messaging
Teams
Organisers can create a limiteless variety of teams and organise them into classes.
Delegates and sponsor/exhibitors can be a part of these teams to converse on numerous subtopics of curiosity at your organisation/occasion
Sponsor/Exhibitor Fanpages
Sponsors/Exhibitors can create fan pages to showcase their manufacturers. Fan pages can embody a brand, description, a single-question ballot/survey, a “grow to be a fan button” and (optionally) a “request assembly” button. Delegates can add feedback on the fan web page, grow to be followers, reply the query and (if enabled), request non-public conferences with sponsors/exhibitors
One-on-one Conferences
If enabled, each delegate’s profile web page and each sponsor/exhibitor’s fan web page will carry
a “request assembly” button which can notify the recipient that the delegate is requesting
a gathering by way of e mail and provides the recipient the choice to just accept or decline, including the non-public assembly to each events’ private schedules, if applicable
Contact Export
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can export detailed contact info for mutual followers and followers, respectively, to CSV (Excel)
Schedule Export
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can export their private schedules to iCal, gCal, RSS and Outlook. This additionally permits offline synchronization with most smartphones
Branded Accounts
Sponsors/exhibitors are allowed to create “branded” accounts, e.g. The Pepsi Consumer, which can provide them an official voice with which they will talk with the neighborhood
RSS
All varieties of public messages and private schedules can be found by way of RSS feeds which are “secret” within the sense that they comprise a protracted, very-hard-to-guess hash within the URLs. Nevertheless, delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can select to share their RSS feeds with
different folks or put up them publicly
Organiser Help
Wewill help the occasion organizer with website setup, branding and customisation as much as the variety of hours specified within the pricing schedule. Further assist may be bought
Delegate Help
We don’t present front-line assist to delegates; reasonably, we depend on the organiser’s assist desk to supply Tier 1 assist. Any points with delegates or sponsors/exhibitors may be escalated to our “all the time on” Tier 2+ assist, which helps a 24-hour turnaround SLA on any difficulty
Full Schedule
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can browse (and search) your complete occasion schedule of
keynotes, breakouts, events and different gatherings. Day-by-day listings, A-Z listings and a graphical grid view can be found. All views clearly point out which occasions delegates are attending and present mosaics of pals attending and, optionally, all folks attending
Private Schedule
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can add a limiteless variety of sub-events to their
personal private schedules, which they will then select to share with everyone, folks they observe or no person. Private schedules may also be posted to numerous social websites, e.g. Fb and Twitter and sync’d with most desktop and on-line calendaring software program and smartphones.
Schedule Notifications
The system will ship schedule replace and alter notifications to delegates (solely these
who’ve opted-in) if occasions they’ve added to their private schedules
Social Notifications
The system will ship “you’ve got been adopted” sort messages to delegates and sponsors/
exhibitors (social notifications) to those that have opted-in to this function
Buddy Sync
Delegates and sponsors/exhibitors can click on buttons to simply import their present pals from Fb, Twitter and (quickly) LinkedIn who’re additionally attending the occasion
Cross-posting to Social Websites
Embedded AddThis widgets permit delegates and sponsors/exhibitors to share numerous
components of their convention expertise (event-specific feedback, public messages, private schedules, and many others.) with a whole lot of various social websites, e.g. Fb and Twitter
Content material Aggregation
For a richer website expertise and higher search engine optimization, We ballot the net, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube for content material related to the occasion and put up outbound hyperlinks to this content material together with abstract info on the occasion website, much like the way in which trackback pings work on many common running a blog platforms
Crowdsourcing (by way of Crowd Marketing campaign)
Buying grants occasion organisers a free enterprise-level license to create a single Crowd Marketing campaign. This permits the organiser to create and handle a Twitter-powered contest of any nature. Examples embody opening a convention name for audio system, soliciting questions for common keynote audio system and even suggesting what meals or speciality drink to serve on the opening night time occasion
Website-wide Search
A lot of the website’s content material is listed into a quick and scalable search engine, permitting
delegates and sponsors/exhibitors to enter free-form queries and get again outcomes categorised into folks/occasions/venues/messages/fan pages
Website Analytics
We provide built-in integration with Google Analytics for general website visitors and page-specific metrics. Occasion organisers even have entry to a wealthy website analytics console that reveals precisely how numerous options of the platform had been used, e.g. common variety of pals per delegate, common variety of followers per sponsor, whole message counts (non-public and public), common variety of occasions added to private schedules
Sub-event Capability Planning
Occasion organisers have entry to a reporting device that reveals how many individuals are attending every breakout session, occasion, and many others. Focused messages may be despatched to all delegates of a given sub-event, e.g. “Breakout A has been moved to Room 101 to accommodate the big delegate listing” or “Overflow Room 202 has been added for Keynote B.”
Profile and Schedule Callback APIs
We optionally present two “callback” mechanisms to ensure that delegate information stays in-sync with the organisation’s system of document for private and schedule information, if such a system is in use. For instance, if a delegate updates his or her profile, the modifications are posted again to a configurable URL to permit these updates to propagate again into the suitable system of document. Equally, every time an occasion is added or eliminated to an delegate’s or sponsor/exhibitor’s private schedule, we put up this motion to a configurable URL. This permits an exterior system of document to trace breakout attendance for capability planning functions or different causes
Mass E mail
Occasion organisers can ship mass emails to your complete neighborhood or to selective subsections. E mail templates may be customised in “mail-merge” style
Public and Personal RESTful APIs
Occasion organisers have entry to dozens of various private and non-private (login required)
APIs to permit exterior functions to automate the platform. Some examples are operating searches, getting lists of pals, getting and modifying private schedules, including and eradicating pals, and many others. For an entire listing, go to http:// <your_conference_site_url>/api (admin account entry required)
Cellular Internet
A lot of the options described above can be found on a generic cellular internet UI that’s tuned to look greatest on iPhone and Andriod handsets, however that additionally works effectively on Blackberry, Palm and Home windows Cellular. This a part of the positioning is included even when the occasion organiser opts NOT to buy cellular app integration
Cellular Software Integration
By way of a partnership with cellular software supplier DUB, we provide a full-featured native software for the iPhone and iPod contact that features, amongst many different options, very quick offline entry to the entire occasion schedule and private schedules. When the handset comes again on-line, schedule updates and modifications are two manner sync’d again with the convention site. Word: functions for different platforms,beginning with Blackberry and Andriod, are due out in late 2010
QR Codes
Our platform contains hooks into numerous endpoints that may simply be built-in with QR Codes. Some examples embody automated following when snapping footage of QR codes on delegates’ badges, lead era by sponsors/exhibitors and even breakout occasion “check-in” by delegates
Registration Integration
Combine with REGIS on-line delegate administration software program by way of a easy RESTful internet service API. Delegates may also be compelled to create their very own accounts if registration integration is disabled
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