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title: "Data Nugget: 4 Expected Uses for Meeting Apps"
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excerpt: "While the top four current meeting app uses for apps are tactical, the four expected uses for next year are more strategic."
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### 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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