Rules of Engagement – Tips for a more active community

May 10, 2012 Rob Arthurs

The event community is an essential part of pre-conference networking. It’s something that projects Leebug far beyond being just a mobile app company. But good technology is only beneficial to those that use it and engage in it. Fortunately there is often a large percentage of the attendees that end up driving the community, but how do you get the others? The reluctant or the less tech savvy. We have a few solutions for getting more engagement out of the delegates.

Notifications (Send a Message)

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New Tracks Sorting Tool Eases Navigation of Busy Agendas

April 19, 2012 Rob Arthurs

We have made of number of improvements to the Leebug platform recently to handle the needs of our larger clients. We made adjustments “under the hood” to speed up the delegate search (really, the heart of the event networking community), in addition to launching the notifications feature and few other tweaks.

What we are releasing now is an improved method of organizing and viewing complex agendas on our conference app. The event producer, or whomever is running admin on the app CMS, will create a new Track field and name it. They can then go on to create as many Track names as are required over the length of their conference.

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We Provide Materials For On Site App Promotion

April 10, 2012 Rob Arthurs

Leebug Mobile provides delegates with a digital event guide and way to communicate and set up meetings amongst each other, however it’s popularity – and the event producer’s ROI – is dependant upon everyone knowing it even exists. The app, it’s features and URL, should of be promoted on the conference website, in the event community, via social media and email shots, and through our new notifications feature.

The app should also be promoted on site, at the event. Poster boards and digital screens will really get the word out. And to help further promote the app, we will provide a beautiful, custom marketing piece that can be printed out and made available to delegates. Download an example.

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Leebug Mobile – Features Overview

March 30, 2012 Rob Arthurs

Leebug Mobile, our conference app that integrates with the online event communities, has evolved with many new features since its launch in late 2011. We thought we would take this opportunity to summarize the features, and mention a few things we have on the road map for this spring.

Digital Event Guide

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New Notification Messaging Feature Connects Event Producers To Their Delegates

March 14, 2012 Rob Arthurs

We have built in new functionality that allows event producers to send notification messages to their delegates on the Leebug networking platform.  We have built the notification system in such a way that it allows the Sender to drill down on exactly who receives the message. While you can notify everyone in the system, you don’t have to. The Sender can also segregate the message into groups. For example, if they only want to message the Speakers. Notifications can even be sent individually by selection, simply check off the delegates that are to receive your message.

This functionality was originally requested in terms of being used while at the event to alert attendees of schedule changes, however it can be used for much more than this.  In the days leading up to the conference, messages can be pushed out on topics like promoting features of the event community, and alerts highlighting new speakers and upcoming networking opportunities.

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Brand New Virtual Booths – Completely Redesigned

February 1, 2012 Rob Arthurs

Brand new and improved virtual booths! Our new design lays out all the information at once, creating a beautiful, interactive company profile. We have added more social media to the v-Booths, with links to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.  We also now pull in a company’s Twitter feed directly into the page.  All of this is in addition to the standard features of the v-Booths: logo, description, video embed, contact details, and marketing materials. Now, more than ever before, a virtual booth is the best way to expose your company and products to delegates prior to a conference. See below for a full list of features.

Though the old style booth graphic was lovely to look at, the problem was that it forced much of the company information to be hidden behind popups – requiring an extra mouse click to view. So out with the old and in with the new.

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New Mobile App Feedback Features: Ratings and Polling

January 9, 2012 Rob Arthurs

This must be the most requested feature for Leebug Mobile. It has always been on our roadmap, but now it’s here and we are happy to announce our new features for event producers to receive instant feedback on their event.

Ratings

We have set up up the app so that any session or any speaker can be rated by the attendees. On each page there is a “Tap to Rate” prompt which will elegantly display our 5 star rating system. One star is a rating of Poor while five stars is Outstanding.  In the app administration tool, the event producer can view the average rating and how many times the particular item had been rated. This tool will be a fantastic resource for getting the delegate’s assessment of an event and it’s content.

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Nifty New App Feature Let’s You Turn Off Nav Items

December 7, 2011 Rob Arthurs

Today we released a new feature in the Leebug Mobile app admin that allows you to activate or de-activate the main navigational items on the app. For example, if your event doesn’t have an exhibition area you can turn off the Exhibitors tab using the new App Settings menu (like the image shown here).

Another example would be to turn off the attendee networking component. Some event producers are particularly sensitive about people seeing their delegates (even if viewing them requires a password), and that’s fine, we respect that.  In this case the event producer now has a perfectly capable paperless event guide.

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Introducing Leebug Mobile

November 2, 2011 Rob Arthurs

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Leebug Mobile, the companion app for the Leebug event communities.  The app features a full digital event guide and integration with the online delegate community. We have harnessed the power of new HTML5 technologies allowing the app to run consistently across all smartphones and tablets, and to run offline (when there is no internet connection).

Leebug Mobile is loaded with features to facilitate navigating the conference and connecting with the right attendees.  Event producers will take advantage of our easy to use content management system, notification system, polling features and ROI analytics*.

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Start-up Event Networking Platform Leebug Powers TechCrunch Moscow Conference

October 13, 2011 Rob Arthurs

Professional event networking platform Leebug will provide an online and mobile networking platform for delgates at TechCrunch Moscow on December 5th.

TechCrunch Moscow, the technology conference organized by Digital October and Kite Ventures showcasing Russian technology companies and IT start-ups, will use the start-up Leebug to connect entrepreneurs and investors at their upcoming event. Leebug founder Rob Arthurs is thrilled to be working with the blog. “TechCrunch is a technology news source that I read every day, and I am very excited to be working with them on their Moscow conference. The Leebug platform is a perfect fit to facilitate networking between the start-ups and investors at the event.”

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