One of the things I really dig about CrowdVine is that, for some conferences, a CrowdVine network is the only site you end up needing.

You’ve got a way to keep in touch with your attendees.

You’ve got your social network, which of course is a must.

You’ve got your schedule listing, which for us does double duty as a personal schedule builder. Even for a network of one, our calender is a damn useful tool.

In some cases, this is all you need.

However, there’s bits of information you want your attendees to have- hotel and transport information, etc. Where’s this going to go? In the past, we’ve recommended that conference staff put this information in a blog post on the network. This doesn’t always work, though- they can get lost in the shuffle on busy sites.

So, I recently coded up the tiniest of tiny features, which allows you to create pages that live on your network, and, if you want, to place them in the top level tab navigation.

Communitech’s Entrepreneur Week is using it to great effect. Their CrowdVine network is their conference site.

If you’re a site admin, you’ll see a link to the page edit/creation UI in your admin area. You can also just create tabs that are links to elsewhere. Textile is supported, so you don’t even have to bother with HTML.

Tags: code, conference, crowdvine, features

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