It must be the NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network) conference coming up in Seattle next month, all of the sudden I’m adding myself to peoples’ Frapr friends maps. We’ll see if that sticks. Frapr is very useful for events organizing, see for example the NTEN map of attendees. You’ll notice that it’s very East Coast dominated. Hint hint, if you are interested in non profit technologies and are on the west coast you should think about coming. And think fast cause the early registration period ends next week I think, maybe this week. Here’s a handy do-da of images conference attendees have uploaded.

When the Net Squared conference registration opens, we’ll be using another system to map out the locations of attendees, called (forgive me, maybe it’s a joke) Attendr. See, for example, this well used Attendr map of the recent MashupCamp. Its a very smooth system, easy to use. The one concern I have about it is the “people this user would like to meet/people who would like to meet this user” feature. Specifically, I worry about some people being very in demand and some people not. I know this is how it works in real life, but I don’t know how helpful it will be for online event organizing. Maybe its the middle of that continuum where it will make the most sense.

Hope this post was useful to folks interested in easy to use mapping systems and conferences.

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