Interaction08 had 450 attendees and 363 users of CrowdVine. That’s 76%. I wonder if attendance at lunch was that high.

Attendees also had some nice comments on this post-conference thread. My favorite was this one:

I think that Crowdvine whether they intended for this to happen or not generates a new type of community post-conference, and that is the one where we interact without the need for an interface (or middle man - crowdvine being one).

I originally envisioned the business as a purely ad-supported operation. In that world, we’d be in bad shape if users were graduating from our software to real world relationships. However, since our clients are conferences we’re only concerned with whether we brought value to the conference. In this case, the poster met so many people in the IxD community that he no longer needs our support to keep in touch with them.

For people who have this kind of experience, the conference is the one place where they can see all their new friends in person. They’ll come back no matter what the content is. For associations, a connected membership means better knowledge transfer, better opportunities for jobs and business deals, and higher retention. Hopefully, we’ll be back for Interaction09 helping some new attendees get this same experience.

Tags: conferences, interaction08, ixda

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