8 Essential Apps for Meetings/Conferences

Here are 8 phone apps which will come in handy:

Foursquare

Check in not only at the event itself, but into indiviual sessions, receptions, luncheons, local restaurants, museums, and other venues. See who else is there, leave tips for other conference attendees, and network via this mobile social app. (Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phones, & more).

unsocial

This app lets you connect with business professionals in your proximity. It uses geo-location and smart tagging to help you find and be found. (Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, & Windows Phones).

BeamMe pro

beamME finds interesting people nearby based on your profile. You can then easily chat, share your actual location or contact information and meet – all from within the app. You can even connect it to Facebook and Twitter to see which contacts are at the event. (Available for iPhone only).

Facebook

Access social information about the conference you’re attending such as scheduled events, who’s attending the conference, what people are saying about the sessions and the locale, view photos that friends are posting, and chat with other conference attendees. (Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phones, & more).

Bump

Share all sorts of contact and social network information by bumping two phones together with the app. Just choose what you want to share/send and then hold the phones together. you can then message them through the app as well. (Available for iPhone and Android).

Ustream Live Broadcaster

Stream live video from the event to your Ustream account from your phone. You can notify your Twitter and Facebook social networks as you start your broadcast so that they can join you. You can make your broadcast social by integrating a live Twitter or Facebook feed. (Available for iPhone and Android).

Shhmooze

Shhmooze lets you check into conferences or meetup events and find out who’s interesting based on your profile and theirs. Connect with other attendees by virtually waving to break the ice.

(Available for iPhone and Android).

Free Wifi Finder

This handy app uses your iPhone’s GPS and network triangulation capabilities to instantly locate free Wi-Fi Internet hotspots wherever you are in the world online or offline. (Available for iPhone and Android).

PDF Convertor

Convert Microsoft Office, Open Office, Lotus, images, web pages and other formats to PDF. This free PDF converter and PDF creator is quick and reliable. It's great if you don't want to buy the Adobe X Pro to convert simple, non-fillable files.

PDF Convertor

Things to Do with Your Online Photos

Create Animoto Music Videos – Easily create music videos from your photo sets on Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and others with Animoto.

Create Blog Slideshows with FlickrSLiDR - This very simple tool instantly creates nicely formatted slideshows from your Flickr photos that can be embedded in your blog or website. PictoBrowser and many others are similar. See my slideshows with these tools here.

Create Business Cards – Make business cards, stickers, postcards, and more from your photos which you have stored on Flickr, Facebook, and other social networks at Moo.com.

Create Librarian Trading Cards, Badges, & More Fun – Easy to use tools will walk you through creating trading cards, magazine covers, movie posters and more with your online photos here at Big Huge Labs.

Edit Photos with Picnik – This Web-based photo editor has partnered with Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, and others to provide you with instant image editing tools from within these social websites, look for the Edit Photo option when viewing your photos, or browse to Picnik to connect the editor with your accounts.

Create an Online Scrapbook – Organize your photos into an online scrapbook such as this one which spotlights a trip to Italy with Scrapblog.

Create a Coffee Table Book – Create gorgeous hardcover photo books with the easy-to-use Blurb bookmaking software.

Create a Newsletter – Create beautifully designed newsletters and photo collages with LetterPop.

Turn Your Photos into Cartoons - Run your photos through BeFunky’s Cartoonizer and create comic book versions of your images.

Create an Online Portfolio – Collect your best photos and set up an online portfolio of your work using Carbonmade.

Publish a Brochure – Create a brochure, online magazine, portfolio, or other image-based project with FormatPixel.

Caption Photos – Add captions, objects, and speech bubbles to photos from Flickr, Webshots, Shutterfly and more with Graphita.

Create Comic Strips – Browse Flickr photos by user or tag and create comic strips from them using the Bubblr tool.

Create Social Networking Slideshows – Create fun slideshows to embed on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace. Customize backgrounds, music and special effects at Slide.com or RockYou.

Frame Your Photos – Add photo frame templates to your photos which will transform them into motivational posters, bus stop signs, and billboards at Image Chef.

Create Photo Collages – Place your photos into Web-based collages with Tabblo

Create Photo Widgets – Experiment with thousands of photo widgets found on Widgetbox and embed your creations on your websites and blogs.

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