What Mobile Meeting Guides Can Do: 36 Features
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
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