Yesterday I spent some time in the virtual pre-event for the social networking conference coming up in San Francisco July 10-11, 2008.
PringoNetworks hosted the pre-event Chat. Userplane powered the chat room. Before, during and after the last virtual event in February I sent several emails to Pringo and made a ton off recommendations on how to improve the functionality of the system.
Basically nothing has changed since then. No chat transcript, klunky messaging system and an awkward interface. I expect the absolute pinnacle of social networking systems, considering the event. Not to bad-mouth Pringo, and there are always behind-the-scenes issues to deal with, but the pre-event networking has considerable room for improvement. I never saw more than 5 people chatting in the live chat at any time.
I asked participants to share their blog links:
http://www.datingpro.com/blog
http://www.skalfa.com/press/
http://www.webmasterradio.fm/Conferences/Social-Networking-Conference/
http://mb.snc2008.com/
http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/
http://perfspot.wordpress.com/
Be sure to let us know what you think of the SF conference.
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I really enjoyed the last virtual conference and had far less issues then this one. This one was not that organized, and I kept getting booted every 2 minutes in the chat rooms. I also thought it would have been better.
The communication was better then before.
Some new and old faces there but no one was chatting and no one was networking.
2 minutes later, I sing out.