IA Summit

Richard Dalton, Conference Chair, IA Summit 2008

I used the MX East CrowdVine site before, during and after the event to find people I wanted to meet and talk to. Afterward, I knew we had to use CrowdVine for our IA Summit also!
Matt Carlisle at Big Heart Design Blog
I was blown away at its simplicity. I really love simple applications that have robust tool sets.
K.G. Schneider, attendee at IA Summit in CrowdVine versus SWIFT
I've been at IA Summit 2008 since Friday, and here's the difference. The CrowdVine software actually works (and I could see how it worked BEFORE I signed in). It allows me to connect with other attendees, view sessions, and follow the zeitgeist. I didn't have to sign a crappy term of service. It wasn't broken the first time I logged in. The interface is pleasingly pulled together, the fonts are not squinchy-tiny, and yes, rumors to the contrary, it "interfaces" with Facebook—and with RSS, Flickr, and other social software.
Attendee via Twitter
CrowdVine is great! It's a wonderful tool to have before the conference

Maker Faire

Gareth Branwyn, Make magazine advisor on Make's MakerFaire

Within a few hours, over 100 people had signed on, started linking and commenting, piping in their blog feeds, Flickr pools, social bookmarks. It really was kind of extraordinary.
Brian Jepson at Providence Geeks
CrowdVine is totally crowd-centric: you answer a few questions, post a photo, maybe friend a few people in the group, and that's it. From there, CrowdVine turns into a back-channel for an event or association, and is great for matching names to faces, finding out more about someone, or informal followups before, after,

SoCon

Jeff Haynie, Co-Chair of SoCon07

I think the tipping point was CrowdVine. I tracked the numbers during registration and like most events, there is an inflection point. In our case, that tipping point was when the CrowdVine social network came online.
Timothy Moenk, Conference Staff, http://tmoenk.typepad.com/tmoenk/2007/02/crowdvine.html
CrowdVine enabled us to begin the conference early, and afterwords it is allowing us to continue the conversation. It is more then just a social network, it also aggregates everyone's blogs!
Attendee
It added so much to our conferences; a great auto meeting facilitator.

Web 2.0 Expo

Jen Pahlka, Conference Chair, Not on CrowdVine yet? You'll wish you were when you get here
This network plaftorm focuses less on who you already know, and more on whom you would like to meet when you are at the event. Your personal conference schedule is also there, and we'll be harassing you endlessly to evaluate every session you attend, and guess where the evaluation page is... in CrowdVine.
Sazbean, B2B Social Networks
CrowdVine's networks are centered on allowing network members to connect and communicate. Everything on the network exists to facilitate this communication - profiles, comments, blog posts, and profile questions, all of which are featured on the homepage.
via Twitter
Been meeting with ppl from crowdvine all day. Haven't made it to the expo hall or blogtropolus yet.
via Twitter
You should get on crowdvine, it's cool
via Twitter
Really impressed by how slick Tony and Jay have gotten the calendar integration with CrowdVine.
via Twitter
CrowdVine for Web 2.0 expo is great

Foo Camp

Scott Berkun

Smart conference organizers should be hiring these folks. Conferences talk the talk about connecting people and building networks, but rarely do anything to facilitate it. CrowdVine is a real tool to help make that stuff happen.

ICWSM

Akshay Java, ICWSM attendee, CrowdVine: The Facebook for conferences

One tool that really brought us together even before the conference actually started was crowdvine. It is what I would like to describe as the "Facebook for conferences". I think ICWSM would surely have made a record of some sort for the "fewest business cards exchanged". Not that there was any less networking -- its just that people already had a connection established before they met.

JISC

Grace Porter, JISC, The 'tremors' of conference amplificatin

It is definitely adding to the buzz around the conference and it certainly helps us lot in JISC towers tap into what delegates are discussing in the run up to the JISC Conference, what they are planning and who they are interested in hooking up with.

Adaptive Path

Rachna Singh, Attendee

I found CrowdVine to be a really cool and useful tool. I used it at the recent Web2.0 expo at SF. It made the conference extremely productive for me - in the sense that I could meet with relevant business partners/customers and in an organized manner, making effective use of my time. What they could do to add an additional layer of convenience is - provide a way to access my network/contacts/meeting data for that conference offline as well… the wi-fi at many events sucks, and so if they have a tool that offers contacts data offline, that will be useful. They could also do with a mobile client.
via Twitter
One of the best features of our @uxweek social network is the ability for admins to see the "wallflowers". Thanks @crowdvine!
via Twitter
sitting behind someone looking at my profile on crowdvine.

Open Repositories 08

Chris Keene, OR08: Live Blogging Experiment

This is an excellent tool, and I recommend it to anyone setting up a conference. It helped to put names to faces, but it also helped to get a feel for who are some of the more prominent people. For example: If Les Carr talks about Gnu Eprints, I know to listen as he manages the thing, and if Bill Hubbard talks about IRs I know to listen to what he says because he Manages Sherpa in the UK. However I couldn't tell you the same about the Dspace or US equivalents. I still can't tell you their names (I don't do names) but I certainly recognised faces of those who seemed to be very active in their area. I know this sounds a little elitist or hierarchical, but it really isn't meant to be.

Business of Software 08

via Twitter

Getting psyched for Business of Software conference...and geeking out on crowdvine.com

IDEA

via Twitter

Set up another CrowdVine social network for the IDEA Conference. My 4th in one year. It just keeps getting easier

2gether08

via Twitter

really great session with @paulhenderson crowdvine is so useful
via Twitter
networking on the @2gether08 back net ... crowdvine affair ... quite good ... like it, very clever ...