Apps for event professionals

Key Takeaways

• Enhance Engagement with Facebook Page Apps: Utilize tools like NetworkedBlogs to connect your blog to your Facebook Page quickly and easily. Additionally, Clobby allows for real-time chats with fans, enabling interactive sessions like post-conference Q&As with speakers or industry leaders, fostering greater engagement.
• Stay Organized with iPhone Apps: For on-the-go event planners, Flightstatuspro is invaluable for tracking speakers’ flights and weather conditions, helping you stay updated and manage time effectively. ACTPrinter allows you to print important documents directly from your iPhone, keeping crucial information like agendas and travel details easily accessible without the need for physical copies.
• Access Production Resources Instantly: The free app Doddle provides event producers with a comprehensive directory of production equipment and contacts, ensuring you can find necessary resources quickly, especially when in a new city. This app is designed to streamline the planning process by putting essential tools at your fingertips.

Facebook Page  Apps:

(T/R) NetworkedBlogs connects your blog to Facebook. Its simple and its fast to install. What are you waiting for?

(T/R) Clobby: Chat with your fans. Imagine the engagement opportunities, post-conference chats with speakers. Q&A with industry leaders or chefs. Your options are endless. Create a program and promote it!

IPhone Apps For any event planner/producer on the run, these Iphone apps can be a lifesaver.

(S/T) Flightstatuspro ($4.99): “Where IS your speaker, why hasn’t he called yet?!” Every planner has had that sinking feeling when waiting on someone’s flight. Flightstatuspro lets you check flights of interest throughout the day, giving you what every planner craves in the event that something changes: time. You can even track weather.

(S/N/T) ACTPrinter: (.99) Stop carrying around paper, or worse your computer. Instead, print docs directly to your Iphone. Your important agendas, flight info and schemas will always be in easy reach.

(P/S/T) Doddle (Free): Producers and equipment at your finger tips with ratings and complete contact info. Never be caught again in a new city without contacts. Designed for film/TV producers, there is enough sound/lighting and production equipment available to make any event producer happy.