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Ten Reasons Your Event Needs an App

Ten Reasons Your Event Needs an App Here at JUJAMA we’re passionate about creating custom, desktop and mobile conference apps to help streamline your event for both attendees and exhibitors. Below are our top 10 reasons why your event needs an app. Keep attendees informed Once your registrant’s are added to our admin portal (via import, API, or manual upload), you can begin to communicate with them through the message center. After they download the app, keep communication open with scheduled alerts, social posts, messages, and push notifications. Maximize sponsor exposure Your sponsors will pay for prime exposure! JUJAMA’s event app has your sponsor covered with push notifications, splash screens, banners, sponsored posts on the social feed, and even gaming options. Connect your attendees Networking is key! Your attendees need the ability to connect with other attendees and exhibitors! JUJAMA offers the essential networking solutions , like an active social feed, private

VIDEO: Your Event Needs an App

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VIDEO: Your Event Needs an App JUJAMA has a robust mobile event app designed to bring event participants together and provide event resources directly to the attendee’s hands. Our powerful event app creates a private social networking application that makes it easy for all event participants to schedule one-to-one meetings, build customized agendas, share important information, and learn about and connect with sponsors & exhibitors. Check out our video below and then call us to start your next-level conference experience! The post VIDEO: Your Event Needs an App appeared first on . http://www.jujama.com/video-your-event-needs-an-app/

Matchmaking — The #1 Tool for Effective Networking

Matchmaking — The #1 Tool for Effective Networking When your attendees need to network and are counting on more than just compelling content, it’s important to give them the time, space, and tools to get the job done. Providing a networking app for events that includes messaging and meeting functionality is essential, but what if your participants don’t know who they need to meet with? There is growing importance of matching the right buyers to the right sellers — the only real way to boost your attendees’ ROI. Enter Matchmaking . JUJAMA has perfected the most streamlined way to match up attendees for networking at your event. Using proprietary algorithms, JUJAMA will match your attendees precisely with those individuals they are interested in meeting. One great meeting could provide a participant a return worth 400 times their investment in attending your meeting — imagine facilitating that with your event apps ! JUJAMA’s advanced matchmaking feature can also bolster the number of

3 Ways to Use Gaming at Your Next Event

3 Ways to Use Gaming at Your Next Event Considering that over 150 million Americans* regularly play video games, bringing that excitement to your event should be at the top of your to-do list! Gamification is not overrated, but is often underused. Here are three intriguing ways to use gaming at your next event: Implement a Scavenger Hunt to navigate attendees through your conference space. Want your attendees to visit exhibitor booths? Incentivize and give them a reason. Attendees can use the JUJAMA app to find and scan items that are part of a scavenger hunt to earn points and land them a top-ranking spot on the leaderboard. As a bonus to you, ask exhibitors to pay for this extra traffic! Use In-App gaming to engage users and focus their interest on important in-app information If your event’s priority is networking , get your attendees “Making Moves” — adding points to in-app actions, like scheduling meetings or completing their profile, can motivate users to visit certain area

New Year, New You, New JUJAMA App!

New Year, New You, New JUJAMA App! Nah…It doesn’t rhyme or have alliteration going for it, but it sure is exciting! While there’s been a lot going on in the event app industry, with Apple’s guideline changes and the new “container” app model picking up steam, JUJAMA decided now is the time to release Version 4.0 of our app — including a complete redesign of our user experience to make our features even more attendee-friendly.  And, what’s a redesign without some exciting new features and tools? One of the biggest questions we hear from our clients is, “how do we better engage our attendees?” Our fresh, new dashboard option with engagement cards brings the information directly to the attendees — no searching necessary. When a user lands on the social feed, they’re presented with a series of cards holding useful information — a conference admin announcement, a message from a potential business partner, an important meeting invitation to respond to, etc. Better yet, an attendee can ten

Cutting-Edge Technologies

Cutting-Edge Technologies JUJAMA is now 8 years into building web based conference and event software and nearly 7 years into building conference apps . We were the first at the web and very early in mobile app solutions! When we began there were many questions as to whether mobile apps would be replaced by alternative programming technologies, however, the device app won out without question. We continue to see the incredible evolution of cutting-edge technologies because of the near universal adoption of the smart phone. Things to look out for and talk to us about including in your custom app: Location data at your conference to know where the crowd is going in real time. Where are the “hot spots”? Location recognition- send a message through geo-behavioral messaging when the attendee reaches a certain location or exhibit. Know who is coming or has visited your sponsors booth. Quantitative analysis of where the crowd is-where are they hanging out? Understand crowd densities, que

JUJAMA’s New Salesforce API Integration

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JUJAMA’s New Salesforce API Integration JUJAMA’s technical team has developed a custom Salesforce API integration to our mobile event apps . This integration automates adding and updating attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and agenda items based on complex custom Salesforce objects and business rules. This saves our client tremendous effort and time automating a previously painful and laborious process to load and maintain event data. Our Chief Technology Officer, Michael Bigus said “although there were many complex data issues to consider our development team did a remarkable job”   Andrew Ewer, CFO, at Terrapinn has been delighted with JUJAMA’s API integration of Terrapinn’s Salesforce system directly into the JUJAMA Web and Mobile Conference App ’s.  Andrew stated: “Our staff can now  easily set their events up within the JUJAMA Admin System and don’t have to worry about updating two systems.  Changes made within Salesforce automatically flow through in real-time into the confer