Networking Tools
Imagine if you could interview every person coming to your gathering.
Who do they wish they could meet? If you can describe the patterns,
we can make it happen. Our tools are useful for more than greening your
event.
Most events today are "top-down." Attendees listen to speakers and talk to the
exhibitors, but meet each other mostly by chance. Our logistics tools solve
part of the problem: many people will get more out of any event by traveling
to it with their neighbors.
But what if you want to connect young members with mentors? Or connect people
with each other based on specific interests? If you want your attendees to be
able to find each other, let's discuss the possibilities:
Some ideas:
- Would you match mentors with youth, by region and specialty?
- Help students team up to start new student organizations or projects?
- Start discussion groups based on the themes of the conference?
and examples:
- Do you host a festival with a cause: music for peace, arts for the environment? You
host a few cause-related exhibitors, but
running the music & arts presentations keeps you busy, and most attendees
experience a great cultural event while missing your cause? We can add an optional step
to buying a ticket: people sign in their interests, and look for others who'd also
like to get involved.
- Let's say you're hosting an environmental event with a biodiesel
exhibitor. Rather than having a dozen people show up, one by one, and get a 60 second
intro from the exhibitor, they can find each other, share a few emails before the event,
go together to the exhibitor with the intention of taking home the new information and
doing something about it. If it's a camping event, let people coordinate camping
groups online.
Is this yet another online community?
No. SpaceShare's tools help people connect,
usually so that they can actually meet their neighbors or meet people with similar
interests at your event. Together, they might decide to join Friendster or Tribe
or Care2, but we leave that up to them, and our general philosophy is that
the web should be a tool with specific purpose, not a replacement for live community. People log on, make connections, and then they are done with our
website and meeting in the real world, at your event.
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