Comments on: Social Networking Platform CrowdVine Targets Conference Organizers

By: Library clips :: Crowdvine for conference : social networking and matching :: November :: 2007

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:43:25 +0000

[...] TechCrunch points to Crowdvine (white label hosted social network) new product called Crowdvine for Conferences, this brings together all of what I’ve mentioned above. It is a space to network and share content, and it also aggregates content from 3rd party services, and you can even request to meet people, and it has teamed up with Pathable to provide a matching feature (everyone fills in a profile, the database works out who you are similar to, on event day you are given a badge labelling your tags and related people). Another matching tool is Attendr. [...]

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Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:50:36 +0000

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By: The Community Girl

The Community Girl — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:28:15 +0000

I’ve been recommending Crowdvine to many people since I met Tony at the Data Sharing Summit in SF a few month back. It’s easy to setup, looks appealing and has all the bells and whistles an event organizer would need. Keep building a fantastic product Tony!

By: Tony Stubblebine

Tony Stubblebine — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:48:00 +0000

Jordon, call for pricing. We have set pricing for the plus and premium packages, but in our experience customers who want the max package tend to have custom needs which need a custom price. We think our service sets us apart and we work hard for all of our professional clients to make sure they have a great experience.

You can call or email me directly:
tony@crowdvine.com
(707) 953-3868

By: jordon

jordon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:01:25 +0000

Anybody know how much the unlimited package costs? Can’t find it on the site.

By: Marc Nathan

Marc Nathan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:23:37 +0000

I met Tony through twitter a few months ago and I think that it’s very coincidental that I recommended Crowdvine today, before I knew he was covered on TC. I think that ad-hoc social networks that are specific to a single event is clearly in demand and I look forward to using Crowdvine for some of the events that I’m involved in.

By: startupnews

startupnews — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:30:03 +0000

I don’t know if there can really be too many of these services .. I mean everyone carves a niche and then has loyal customers .

I think its like saying there are too may restaurants or too many apartments .

Some will rise and others will sink …

By: Tony Stubblebine

Tony Stubblebine — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:37:37 +0000

Dan, there’s definitely not enough services for conference organizers. We were tired of going to conferences and wading through a printed attendee list. The only other competitor we saw had software that overwhelmed the attendees with features and as a result didn’t get any usage. We’re simple enough that attendees can use it without a learning curve.

That’s also our differentiator on our general purpose social networking service. There’s a lot of uses where the most important “content” is the people and the activity you want people meeting and connecting. Dating, alumni directories, company intranets have been really successful on CV. There’s also a trend toward componentization of web applications, so we think our simplicity puts us in a good spot to be the social network component that you hook up with other components.

By: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:49:12 +0000

I feel like there are far too many of these as is..whats different?

By: Tony Stubblebine

Tony Stubblebine — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:49:01 +0000

Mark, thanks for the review.

The calendar software is called icalico and was built by Evan Henshaw-Plath and Kellan Elliott-McCrea. I believe their intention is to open source it. We’ve been using it for multi-track conferences to help attendees track which sessions they want to go to. The integration with CrowdVine also lets us show which sessions are popular in your network or within a tag. Kellan works on Flickr and Evan is one of the engineers on the Fire Eagle project being built by Yahoo brick house.

By: Terrie

Terrie — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:05:38 +0000

We used CrowdVine for Maker Faire Bay Area, and it was great to see all the makers connecting with each other; they’re showing off their projects to the crowds at Maker Faire, and that can make it difficult to get to know each other during the faire. CrowdVine provided an opportunity for them to get in touch with each other before and after the event.

I also use it for my CitizenSci.com site as a way for people in that space to connect.

I worked with Tony and Jay in the past, so of course I’m biased. But I can also say that knowing Tony’s work, we were really delighted to learn that he was rolling out a social networking app.

By: Jason Knight

Jason Knight — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:12:59 +0000

Crowdvine supported FOO camp and did an awesome job. I’ve since recommended them to the people doing barcampbank - more context around the other attendees is really helpful.

Yeah, this is a clear plug, but it has the benefit of being true.