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.)
• Customized color schemes
• Press release search

Related links:

Directory of Mobile Meeting Guide

Developers App Map: How to Produce a Mobile Meeting Guide

10 Questions for Mobile Meeting Guide Developers