Mobile meeting guides range from inexpensive bare-bones agendas to flashy, custom productions that work as sophisticated, hand-held communication portals for the event, providing polling functionalities, embedded social media, attendee messaging, interactive floor plans, and much more. Here’s a wish list of 36 features that can be incorporated into a smartphone app for your meeting, convention, or special event.
Meeting Resources
Conference schedule
Personal agenda builder
Schedule alerts
Searchable attendee and speaker lists (with pictures)
Searchable exhibitor lists
Product search
Session search
Downloadable session handouts
Downloadable session slides
Note taking
Basic or interactive floor plans/maps
Exhibit hall “way-finding” (you appear as a dot on the map)
Hotel information
Local area guide and maps (with local sponsorship opportunities)
Transportation information, such as shuttle bus schedules and real-time stats on flights at local airports
Connecting People
Integration with Twitter, Facebook, and other social-media sites
Alerts sent from event organizers
Attendee-to-attendee messaging
“Bump” data sharing
User-generated content, such as a photo gallery
Exhibitor Listings
Logo
Product photos
Rich media content, such as videos and podcasts
Downloadable collateral
Show specials
New-product alerts
Advertising
Sponsor splash screen
Sponsorship and advertising integration, with random or in-context ad placement
Data and analytics for exhibitors
SMS campaigns
Tools for the Host Organization
Attendee polling
Session and conference evaluations
Mobile commerce integration
Data and analytics for organizers (stats on usage, click-throughs, average time spent per page, etc.)
