On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:19 AM, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> For the moment we are on both. Lanyrd does allow you to create a personal >> schedule, but apparently only through the mobile (iPhone, Android) apps they >> promote. Lanyrd is more modern, and I suspect that > > Don't find any Lanyrd mobile apps in the Google play store; went > to m.lanyrd.com and indeed there's a mobile optimized website > there but nothing to suggest it has the ability to build any > personal schedule either. > http://lanyrd.com/mobile/, but I think they are taking a few liberties with the phrase "personal schedule," since there doesn't appear to be any way of flagging sessions for individual attendance. As a conference organizer this feedback is invaluable.
>> over the long haul they will overtake Crowdvine, because they seem able to >> make more effective use of web APIs, they are better known, and don't expect >> the individual users to do as much work. >> regards >> Steve >> On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >>> For whatever it's worth, Lanyrd has the advantage that more people have >>> heard of it, and CrowdVine is superior in every other way, especially the >>> itinerary planning tools. >>> > Most conferences I've attended (e.g., Brainshare, Adobe Max) > had their own web-based personal scheduling tool. Never used > Crowdvine before Apachecon, never used Lanyrd before yesterday. > Personal scheduling is about the only reason I'd used either > since almost everything else is back on the main conference > site. > Looks like you'll be going with Crowdvine for the moment, then. regards Steve Holden [email protected] +1 571 484 6266 @holdenweb -- Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next event: ApacheCon NA 2013: Feb 26-28 http://na.apachecon.com/ Community events: Barcamp Feb 24 Hackathon Feb 25 Development Mar 1/2
