Meetings

Data Nugget: 4 Expected Uses for Meeting Apps

Associations need their meeting apps to do more than serve up the agenda. While the top four current uses for apps are tactical, the four anticipated uses for next year are more strategic.

Current Uses

  1. Surveys
  2. Speaker Profiles
  3. Session Descriptions
  4. Expo Floor Maps

Anticipated Uses

  1. User location-based technology to create seamless session check-in
  2. User location-based technology to facilitate attendee networking
  3. In-app activity stream of trending sessions, most popular comments, and so forth
  4. Ad hoc community building

Source: MPI Meetings Outlook 2015 Spring Edition

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