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 John
So far its a mash-up of a few things. We plan to user SharePoint as much as possible, with a few add-ons to help with some other bits and bobs.
So far it’s looking like this :
- Live Streaming – Hangouts streamed live to Youtube.
- Session Feedback forms –DocSurvey
- Quizzes and Competitions – DocSurvey
- Distribution and Tracking of important documents / pages – DocRead
- Sharing of session / speaker related resources – DocRead
- Registration and User Management –Extradium
- Integrates Chat – cometchat.
For the rest – it’s standard SharePoint all the way. The whole thing is hosted by Fpweb.net as well.
