Friday, November 18, 2011

Events Made Easy By Smartphone Apps

By Nathan Jones


In any modern day corporation and organization, hosting events has become an integral part and their purpose may differ each time out.Launching a product is one reason why organizations or corporations do events.Programs suchs as employee training and fundraising are also reasons to hold event.Another reason for holding event is for simple social gatherings or parties.In any case, there will always be event apps available at your disposal, which is geared towards making your event hosting a little bit easier.

Currently, four events apps that are available in the market are Crowdcomms’ eVapp, Doubledutch’s HYVE Events, and Team 360R Business class Apps and Enterprise class Apps.They all have the same purpose, even if each one have different offering from the other, of making the event memorable, convenient, interactive and cost effective even if each one have different offering from the other.

Crowdcomms’ eVapp provides you and your event with a customizable and intuitive user interface that is accessible to your attendees via any device or web browser.It has access to the most up to date programs in an interactive format, can view sessions and speaker information, and is capable of taking down notes and save them with the session information for future reference.In addition, it gives strong value to your sponsors and exhibitors, by giving them prominent front-page branding.Moreover, eVapp has interactive maps, live audience response which increases engagement of the attendees, and provides attendees with useful networks, social media access and up to the minute news alerts about the event.

Meanwhile, Doubledutch’s HYVE Events, saves you some expenses on printing event guides by providing critical agenda, personalized scheduling, venue info, and more on the attendee’s smartphone as well as time and effort.By leveraging the unique capabilities of the modern smartphone, this particular event app will help your attendees maximize their networking experience via social, location based functionality.Lastly, whether it be through game mechanics such as points and badges, or the delivery of location based offers, HYVE event apps can help you incentivized the behaviors that will make your event successful.

Meanwhile, Team 360R’s Business class and Enterprise class Apps more or less has the same services being offered.Both have event branding, sponsor branding, content management, event scheduling, speaker biographies, social media, Google location maps, floor plans and contact information.There are just some added features in the Enterprise class, such as detailed analytics, push notifications, and QR code readers.

Good and easy was never a description you will attach to event hosting before.In the market, however, different kinds of event apps are everywhere.All of them has the same purpose of making your event hosting job easier.Just pick the one that best fit to your needs.




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