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7. Mobile apps for meetings are exploding.
Apps are in. This year has seen hundreds of new mobile phone apps benefiting meeting planners, attendees and exhibitors. Smart phones are being used for networking, electronic ticketing, audience polling, surveys, pocket programs, pocket exhibit guides, as well as course notes and literature collection and much more.
8. Location-aware applications are finding their way to meetings.
Location-based or geo-position based applications is a hot area in mobile development. In the context of meetings, attendees are business travelers who need way-finding information as well as location-based networking.
9. The iPad for meetings and events will be increasingly used.
As the iPhone lead the way for a whole new genre of mobile phones, the iPad will lead the way for a wide range of touch-sensitive devices. This highly portable, easy-to-input-while-standing tools will be a natural for meetings: for surveys, for lead qualifications, for interactive displays at booths, for meeting planners to access specification data, for attendees to view streaming event video, for distribution of session handouts for attendees, and for a larger-version of the hundreds of mobile apps currently being developed for meeting planners, attendees and exhibitors.
10. HD video for hybrid meetings will bloom.
Skype newest 5.0 beta version provides 760p high definition video conferencing at no charge, as well as the ability for four simultaneous callers. This is just one way that HD will lead the way to jump in hybrid meetings and speakers presenting remotely at events. On the high-end, Starwood and Marriott hotels are building public tele-presence suites to provide full-size, high definition face-to-face virtual meeting spaces for small groups to meet virtually in dozens of cites with more to come.
Apps are in. This year has seen hundreds of new mobile phone apps benefiting meeting planners, attendees and exhibitors. Smart phones are being used for networking, electronic ticketing, audience polling, surveys, pocket programs, pocket exhibit guides, as well as course notes and literature collection and much more.
8. Location-aware applications are finding their way to meetings.
Location-based or geo-position based applications is a hot area in mobile development. In the context of meetings, attendees are business travelers who need way-finding information as well as location-based networking.
9. The iPad for meetings and events will be increasingly used.
As the iPhone lead the way for a whole new genre of mobile phones, the iPad will lead the way for a wide range of touch-sensitive devices. This highly portable, easy-to-input-while-standing tools will be a natural for meetings: for surveys, for lead qualifications, for interactive displays at booths, for meeting planners to access specification data, for attendees to view streaming event video, for distribution of session handouts for attendees, and for a larger-version of the hundreds of mobile apps currently being developed for meeting planners, attendees and exhibitors.
10. HD video for hybrid meetings will bloom.
Skype newest 5.0 beta version provides 760p high definition video conferencing at no charge, as well as the ability for four simultaneous callers. This is just one way that HD will lead the way to jump in hybrid meetings and speakers presenting remotely at events. On the high-end, Starwood and Marriott hotels are building public tele-presence suites to provide full-size, high definition face-to-face virtual meeting spaces for small groups to meet virtually in dozens of cites with more to come.
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