EventVue

We think it’s important for our customers to see for themselves how their attendees are connecting through our product. That’s why we’ve added a way for event organizers to see what’s happening in their communities.

With our new stats pages, event organizers can now see:

• How many of their attendees have signed into EventVue
• What percentage of users filled out a profile, uploaded a picture or added some tags
• How many messages have been sent
• Who the most popular attendees are in their community
• (And my personal favorite) A map showing the geographical spread of their attendees

This is just our first iteration. We’ll be adding more statistics as we hear your feedback. Be sure to let us know what other information you care about so we can continue to improve our product and give you one more reason to use EventVue.

I recently attended the Google IO conference in San Francisco. There were some great sessions, but that’s not why I was there — I was there for the 2999 other developers!

I’ve been to a lot of conferences in the past year, but most of them have been EventVue customers. It was a strange experience for me to attend a conference that didn’t use our product. I think it was healthy for me to feel the pain of going to a conference without EventVue. There is nothing more frustrating than knowing there are people in the building you want to meet and having no way to find or connect with them!

Everyone who has attended a conference before can probably relate to my pain. In fact, we get emails all the time that say:

“I don’t want to attend another conference that doesn’t use EventVue.”

We want to do everything we can to make EventVue available at the conferences you love. We’ve now made it easier for you to tell us which conferences should be using EventVue. Simply look for the link on our homepage or inside any EventVue community. We’ll take your suggestions and do everything we can to win them as EventVue customers.

To be fair, we can’t take credit for the idea. Bill Flagg from RegOnline gave us the original inspiration for this feature:

My experience at Google IO reminded me that what we are doing really matters. I came back to Boulder more passionate about our work, and more excited for the day when EventVue is a standard part of every conference experience (including you, Google).

We’re proud to announce that the Colorado’s Technology Association (CSIA) has named EventVue Rookie of the Year. David Cohen has a great writeup over at Colorado Startups.

The award is given to the most promising technology company in Colorado that has been operating for less than 18 months. At the ceremony, CSIA announced that we were selected for our potential to transform the conference industry and the clear need for our product in the market.

We’re honored to have been selected for the award. We’ve had a great first year at EventVue and next year looks even more promising than last. Much thanks to everyone in the Boulder startup community who have helped us this far — we would be far less without your support.

We’ve been cranking away on new functionality at EventVue in the last weeks and we’re now ready to announce that it’s live! We’re really excited about the progress we’ve made here and the added value that we can now offer to conferences. Here’s what new at EventVue:

1. Twitter goodness. Twitter at conferences has been big. Really Big. We’ve seen what’s happened at SXSW (see the Sarah Lacy hoopla ), at Graphing Social Patterns, Defrag, and others. Twitter gets heavy use by attendees who want to find out who else is at the conference and share short commentary about the sessions they’re listening to. For conference organizers, Twitter is becoming a very powerful promotional tool to engage with attendees and build buzz around their events.

We’re now ready to take all this one major step forward. EventVue now brings all the conversation happening on twitter at a conference into one place inside EventVue. We make it possible to see what the other attendees are saying on Twitter at a conference.

This isn’t all though; we also publish this all back out to Twitter in a specialized twitter stream for each conference. Attendees can then follow the collective conversation any way they wish — on EventVue, by SMS at the conference, or using any of the many other Twitter clients.

2. Chatter. Want to know what attendees are talking about on the web before, during, and after a conference? We now find all the blog posts from the attendees and all the flickr pictures and youtube videos from the conference and aggregate them inside EventVue. Attendees are already writing on their blog about the content of the conference and uploading pictures and videos from their experience at the conference. We are now bringing all this together for attendees inside EventVue. We think this is a great way to uncover and participate in the conversation happening on the web around a conference.

3. Auto-discovery of where you are around the web. We’ve heard from many of our users that they would like it if we made it easier to fill out a profile in EventVue. We’ve listened and now with the help of some web magic, we discover stuff about you automatically like your blog, your LinkedIn profile, your Twitter account, and other sites around the web. It’s just one more way to make it easy to use EventVue. This is only the start — look for us to make it even easier in the near future as we do more and more cool stuff with various web APIs.

We’re very excited about this new functionality and can’t wait to see it in action at more and more conferences. Let us know what you think and if there’s some other really cool burning idea that you think we absolutely must do.

So you ever had that "Oh Crap!!" moment?

Well we just had one. We’ve been pretty excited about what’s going on at EventVue in the past month and wanted to tell all our friends about it. Naturally, right? After all, when we build cool new stuff, you guys want to hear about it.

So I wrote up a excited newsletter email to send out to you, our friends. And you probably recieved it with great excitement too. The first time. And then it came again. And again. And again. As it turns out, our servers sent out multiple copies of our newsletter email to each person.

Let me just say this: We’re sorry.

We’re running around the EventVue HQ pretty frantically right now trying to figure out what happened. We’re not sure how it happened just yet, but trust me, some of our servers are going to get an earful tonight. Please feel free to yell and scream and email us and tell us how much spammers suck. We’re sorry.

- Rob

One of our cofounders, Rob Johnson, has just been interviewed on Startup Story Radio. It’s a great interview — Rob gives a brief history of EventVue and what it’s been like to start an investor-backed company at age 23. Rob also talks about the TechStars experience and how it has helped EventVue to date.

Listen to the podcast below, or click through to the post on Startup Story Radio.

It’s Rob’s first time doing a radio interview, so good natured ribbing is definitely appropriate (comments below or Rob on twitter at @rnjohnson).

Rob Johnson interview on Startup Story Radio

We just added a new tag recommendation feature to each of our EventVue communities. EventVue will now make personalized tag suggestions for each attendee while they are completing their profile.

We search each profile for keywords that are relevant to your conference and offer personalized and intelligent recommendations. We’ll also suggest some of the most popular tags from your conference.

It’s a simple (but powerful) feature and we’re excited to be be able to offer it today.

Today we’re announcing some exciting news from EventVue. We have launched an EventVue community for Ecocity World Summit!

We’ve been focusing on bringing the EventVue technology to green conferences for the past few months and are proud that Ecocity has selected us to provide the online community for their conference. The Ecocity World Summit is the premier conference focused on sustainable development in our cities and villages for the future. Ecocity World summit is a great example of our efforts to bring EventVue to green conferences and help attendees and organizers work for a cleaner, more sustainable future.

With EventVue, Ecocity attendees will be able to find who they should meet at the conference. Attendees will be able to identify and connect with others who share their same interest, are from a their city, or are looking for the expertise they offer.

If you are attending the Ecocity conference yourself (April 24 - 26), make sure to get in touch with us (using EventVue of course) and let’s meet up while we’re there. We’d love to hear what you think about EventVue and how we can make it better.

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