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Rating: 7.5/10 (2 votes cast)
Although people are attending fewer conferences than they used to, it is still a big part of the lives of many professionals. Lanyrd is a new startup entering the conference market by closely integrating with Twitter to help you find conferences near you and then stay connected to some of the attendees of the conference.
Lanyrd - The Social Side of Conferences, 7.5 out of 10 based on 2 ratings
- Primary Audience: Businesses of any size who occasionally attend trade shows and want to use it as a true networking event.
- Pricing: Free for now, pro version launching soon
- How They Describe It: Find great conferences to attend - See what your friends are going to or speaking at, find conferences near you or browse conferences by topic.
Discover what's hot while it's on -Track what's going on during the conference, even if you aren't there. Who is tweeting what, what links are doing the rounds. Use our useful mobile version to decide what to go to next.
Catch up on anything you missed - Easily discover slides, video and podcasts from conferences you attended or tracked. If you spoke at an event you can build up your speaker portfolio of talks you gave.
- Areas of Improvement: Lanyrd needs better browseability to find events in your area of region. They should be able to do radius searches to find events within a certain amount of miles of where you live.
- Best Feature: Linking books with conferences they will be attending.
- Missing Feature: Mobile app since much of the interaction will need to take place at the conference.
- Website: lanyrd.com
- Twitter: @lanyrd
