Global Equity Organization’s call for their annual conference really stands out for its clarity and conciseness. Our favorite part? The “What Happens After You Submit Your Proposal” section. Check it out at http://www.globalequity.org/geo/node/3265 and see if you agree.
Tag: Call Admins
Post of interest to call administrators.
New Feature: Breadcrumbs
We’ve made it easier than ever to find your way around ProposalSpace with breadcrumbs. Just check the top of any page to see where you are in relation to your Account Home page.
New Feature: Email Receipts
Call administrators can now track the status of every email sent through ProposalSpace! Just pull up any message sent via the Messaging Module and click the new Delivery Receipts tab. Continue reading New Feature: Email Receipts
Data Export Improvements
Our Data Export feature now has an option to limit reports to certain types of proposals. This means call administrators no longer have to weed out unwanted proposals after generating a report. Now, you can just pick the status(es) you want to include.
Next up: The ability to select specific items from the submission and role forms.
New Feature: Scheduling Module
One of the most critical tasks for any conference organizer is building the session schedule. Not only do you have to figure out how to arrange the sessions so they tell a story, you also have to make sure you don’t put someone in two places at the same time.
Unfortunately, we can’t help you with the story-telling part (at least not yet). We can, however, help you easily check for scheduling conflicts with our new drag-and-drop Scheduling Module.
Crowdsource, Curate, or Combo?
The most common model for selecting presenters for educational conferences is pretty straightforward:
- Announce a call for proposals (or call for papers, call for abstracts, call for speakers, etc.)
- Collect proposals
- Have a committee of volunteers review the proposals
- Select presentations based on the reviews
- Build a session program that accommodates the selections
Although the process works for the vast majority of meetings, it’s hard to argue that it can’t be improved.
Review Groups Are Here!
A lot of conferences—especially larger ones—need to split up their review tasks among different groups of reviewers. Up to now, the only way to do that in ProposalSpace was to set up multiple calls, each with its own set of reviewers. Now, call administrators can manage multiple sets of reviewers in a single call!
New Feature: Session Publishing
Our new Publishing Module lets you publish your conference’s session information—including supporting materials—on any website.
Conference organizers can:
- Assign dates, times and locations to sessions.
- Select which information gets displayed for each session and for each person in the session.
- Embed the session information in any website with a single line of code.
Authors can:
- Attach documents to their sessions for attendees to download.
Attendees can:
- Search for sessions by keyword.
- Sort sessions by title, date/time, and location.
The best part? Any change you make in ProposalSpace shows up immediately on your website.
New Feature: Profile Photo
User profiles can now include photos!
To add a photo to your profile, just sign in to the site, click the “My Account” tab, then click the “Change My Photo” link. You can upload any standard image file (JPEG, GIF, PNG or TIFF) and even scale and crop your photo without the need for photo-editing software.
New Feature: Text Limits
We’re really excited to announce a new feature in ProposalSpace: text limits.
Continue reading New Feature: Text Limits