It isn't anything new, but we are just dipping our toes in the mobile water. We created our first app late last year. This year I am building a mobile website for attendees to visit while on site at our meetings. Instead of spending thousands of dollars, I am doing it myself in house. Very simply, I am just buying a cheap hosting package and installing wordpress. I found a great free mobile theme and just put together a simple site with the schedule, session info, hotel and travel info and a place for daily announcements. There is also a Sponsor page to give sponsors some extra recognition. Total cost (besides my time) $100 a year.
Ok, so I could have spelled out the title, but chose the hashtag - #asae10. Supposedly there were over 8,000 tweets with the hashtag, but probably countless more direct messages of messages that left out the hashtag but were conference related. Two years ago, we were using twitter as a backchannel to talk about speakers. Now, over 800 people sent conference related tweets. If you aren't on Twitter, you are already late to the party. Anyway, on with the post... In no particular order, my thoughts on this years ASAE Annual Conference: 1. LA was a good venue. Lots to do. Hotels close by. Only downside was the rooms were a bit of a hike. 2. I missed Sunday because of family obligations. That really put me behind the 8 ball. Since I led a session, that meant I only got to go to 3 true sessions. Sorry, I don't count Joy Behar and the closing session. Although Marshall Goldsmith was good, I probably wouldn't have gone to see that speech as a Learning Lab. 3. Based on #
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Can you elaborate or provide some specifics on this? We're looking into doing a mobile app, and are seeing what we can do for our conference. It sounds like your idea would be good to pursue.
Thanks,
Kara
klemar@stle.org