I’ve been to several regional and national SharePoint conferences in the past couple of year at which SharePoint itself was underutilized or not at all used for many of the actions of planning and carrying out the delivery of the conference. Are there any free/shareware or commercial SharePoint apps / extensions / packages available to give conference organizers and attendees the tools they need for a successful conference?
Speaking as an attendee going beyond static speaker/session info to things like:
* personalized sessions schedule
* session reminders and alert notifications of last minute changes or additions
* sessions / speakers / conference feedback and rating
* browser and mobile device support
If there is nothing out there I’m planning to offer to work with my local SharePoint Saturday organizing committee (and the community) to build something like this for event in 2014.
Hi Mark, thanks for those thoughts. SP24Conf.com looks great. I presume that the software for your conference is proprietary, part of your intellectual property.
I’m hoping to kick-start something that would be open-source for use by the SharePoint Saturday crowd. Not to compete with you, just to make the SPS events actually use SP for their events.
