7 Reasons Why You Should Cancel Conventions that Don’t Use Eventvue

We’ve been using Eventvue.com’s conference networking software for Monday and Tuesday’s Defrag convention. We haven’t even hit the convention floor yet – but here are 7 reasons why we already like it.

Reason #1 – Everyone in One Place

All the conference attendees are listed in one place (with mercifully short bios) and, most importantly, photos. Better yet, for each person, you get their web site, blog, LinkedIn profile, Facebook profile, Twitter page and their NFL game day predictions. Well, maybe not that last one.

Reason #2 – You Have the Right to Remain Private

We would have listed this above, but it’s too important. In addition to all the links in Reason #1, you can send any person a message, without having to know their email address. Or, you can just say “keep away from me.”

Reason #3 – Sort, Straighten, Sweep, Standardize, Sustain

If you haven’t heard of 5S, don’t worry. But, it’s remarkable how much Eventvue helps you “5S” your convention. The list of attendees, for instance, is sortable by company, last name, first name, last updated and latte preference.

Reason #4 – Bye, Bye Homepages, RSS and Bookmarks

I don’t know about you, but 90% of the relationships we make at conventions are, well, fleeting. After all, many of these bozos look good in the first flush of the meeting light, but after you take them home to meet your parents,…

Still, I appreciate being able to get a feel for folks by reading some of their blog posts, checking their Twitter page, even YouTubing a video. Eventvue puts all this stuff in one place, easily scanned. That way only the bozos that survive the first bright blush of the convention go into bookmarks or RSS feeds.

Reason #5 – Automatic for the People

I almost forgot to mention that much of this is done without you having to fill anything out. Eventvue works with convention organizers to upload their registration lists and basic information. Yes, you do get to fill in your own bio and interests, but – and this is cool – it fills in your blog, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter info automatically.

And, yes, since we are attending the Defrag convention, their magic carpet software will shoot this blog post automatically to the blog page of Eventvue.

Reason #6 – Reach Out and Touch Someone

Just don’t get any ideas! I’ve only sent out maybe 7 or 8 messages, but by serendipity, fate or the hand of the creator – I found what I call the Minnesota Mafia of Steve Kickert, Graeme Thickins, Rich Hoeg and Connie Benson. It works – give fate a chance.

Reason #7 – So Good for the Ego

I gotta’ admit that I like it when people say, “I think we should know each other.” Happens very occasionally at conferences to us – maybe it happens all the time to you.

Think about it – with your name, face, blog and other online shenanigans out in front of all the attendees – it increases the chance that someone you don’t know from Adam will say “hi.”

Reason #8 – Bonus Reason

And you know what? The search tool on Eventvue actually works! We thought we better say that after taking Twitter to task for having a broken down search mechanism.

One Stop

These and any number of other things make Eventvue the one-stop shopping, holding, yakking, and hanging out place to manage your next convention experience.

If you read this blog very much, you know that we rarely flip over much of the over-hyped and over-sold social web. We’re flipping now, and we’re printing out our favorite people page so we can identify them at the conference. Gotta’ go!

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