Your event app should look, feel, and function the way you want it to. That’s why at Socio, we’re always looking for ways to make sure you have the most customizable event app on the market. 

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce three app layouts for you to choose from. Each offers a unique way to engage your attendees, promote your sponsors and exhibitors, and drive traffic to your content.

🏁 Banners Ads
🧠 Smart Feed
🧐 Features Only

And that’s not all. We upgraded your builder experience on the Socio Platform, too, so you can see what your app will look like in real time. 

Important Note: For Branded App Customers, you'll need to update your app to access the new Event Layouts.

Banners

Have a sponsor who wants to run an ad in your event app? With the new Banners layout, you can monetize your app while giving sponsors the visibility they deserve.

You can even link these promotions to any content inside or outside of your app. Sponsors, for instance, can run ads that link to their website, a landing page, or their profile inside of your app. 

Sponsors aren’t the only ones who benefit, either. Say you want to drive foot traffic to your keynote. Run a banner ad highlighting your speaker, then to link to their session on the agenda.

Run as many promotions as you’d like. Banners automatically rotate (or attendees can swipe to find what interests them). The recommended size for banners is 950px wide by 380px tall.

Smart Feed

Imagine your app delivering a personalized experience to every attendee. Smart Feed makes that happen. It shows users relevant content when they need it, where they need it.

Attendees can swipe the cards in the Smart Feed to discover more content, too. The feed also continuously updates so users see fresh content when they return to your app’s home screen.

Speaking of your event content, Smart Feed can show any of the following options:

• Recommended Connections
• Sponsors
• Recent Announcements
• Upcoming Sessions

Features Only

Smartphones are amazing, but their real estate is limited. Enter the Features Only layout, which maximizes the space you have to showcase your event features.

By activating a full-screen layout, Features Only makes room for 12 icons. That simplified presentation helps attendees navigate to what they need quickly.

Use the Features Only layout when your event content deserves center stage, or when you have so many features to show that you need as clean and minimal of a layout as possible.

BONUS: Enhanced App Preview

Your app-building experience just got way better. Now when designing your event app on the Socio Platform, you can preview exactly what it will look like in real time.

Once you’re happy with your choices, you can watch the updates happen live on your app within moments of saving. 

Using the upgraded builder and previewing these new layouts and is easy. Head to the home screen on the Socio Platform, then follow these steps: 

My Events → Your Event → Edit Event → Appearance → Select Your Layout  

Learn More About These Updates

Want to know more? Live chat us now by clicking the Intercom icon toward the bottom right, or check out the Event Layouts overview on then Socio knowledge base.

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

Giving you the best event app experience drives every update here at Socio. Today, we took another three steps toward that by rolling out three new app features created from your feedback. Each one creates a smoother, more intuitive experience for your attendees:

🔍 Advanced Search

📅 Export to Calendar

🌎 9 New Languages

Advanced Search

Finding the right information at the right time is crucial for your attendees to have the best event experience. Now they can find exactly what they need in seconds using Advanced Search. Attendees quickly dig through all of the content you make available to them, then refine the results with filters.

Export to Calendar

You've asked for it, and now it’s here! Your attendees can export sessions directly from the agenda to their personal iCalendar or Google Calendar. With just a click, your event seamlessly integrates into attendees' busy lives.

9 New Languages

More than ever, your event should be ready to provide a global experience. Today, we're excited to make 9 new languages available! That's a total of 13 languages for your event app.

🇩🇪German
🇮🇹Italian
🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)
🇵🇹Portuguese
🇳🇱Dutch
🇬🇷Greek
🇸🇪Swedish
🇷🇺Russia
🇰🇷Korean

Have questions about any of these new features? Feel free to chat us below or schedule a call with one of our event tech experts.

   
Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

Live Display showcases your content on screens everyone can see and turns your event into a visual experience. 

Engage and inform your audience by showing them social activity, current and upcoming sessions, attendee leaderboards, and more. 

Give sponsors and exhibitors the visibility they deserve by surfacing their brand across the venue.

Just pick the content that matters most, customize the look and feel, and publish it—all in real time.

Want to learn more? Check out this live demo to see Live Display in action. You can get started with Live Display here or learn more here. 

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

Our Lead Retrieval product allows your exhibitors and sponsors to capture leads, collaborate, and perform like never before. 

Using Lead Retrieval will allow you, the event organizer, to monetize your event while providing a superior experience to attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors. 👇

Want to learn more? You can check out our full blog about having a Lead Retrieval App or click here. Also, feel free to Live Chat us or click below to schedule an in-depth call!

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

Your events excite, educate, and inform attendees. You connect and bring them together, and stimulate new business for your vendors. Simply put, your events drive people to act!

What if there was a way to motivate and raise engagement even further? With the power of gamification there is!

What is Gamification?

Gamification is applying the competitive nature and structure of gaming to things outside the world of entertainment, allowing you to create an even more fun, exciting, and memorable experience for your attendees than you already do. 

Meet Socio Event Gamification 🎉

Create challenges and encourage attendees to participate in more ways while generating value with rewards and competition.

• Want to drive traffic to your top sponsor? ✅
• Want to inject some friendly fun into your event atmosphere? ✅ 
• Want to incentivize networking among your attendees? ✅ 
• Want to increase optional session attendance? ✅

It's simple! Add an Event Game in the Socio Platform today. 

Excited to see how gamification can change your event? Feel free to chat us below, schedule a call with one of our event tech experts, or if you already have an event set up, learn more about how to create and set up your game!

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

You now have access to our upgraded icon library! This is no small upgrade as we have gone from 181 icons to over 150,000 customizable icons! 🤯 

All of this to make sure that your event app truly fits your event! Something as simple as letting your event's style shine makes your attendees love your event even more 🤩 and is just another way we help break down the barrier between you and your attendees.

Stay tuned as we continue to provide you with extraordinary product updates. Let us know how we can continue to improve your event experience!

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

Over the past few months, our team here at Socio has been working very hard to provide you with a superior event tech experience. Using your invaluable feedback, we are building upon existing features while developing entirely new ones to take your events to the next level! Check out our latest updates 👇

Brand New Web App

The brand new web app has been completely redesigned with a new beautiful look that's more customizable than ever before. Now, with even more features, the web app offers your attendees a full and personal experience from any of their web-enabled devices. 

Ratings & Reviews

Collecting feedback from attendees is crucial to learning how to improve every one of your events. Doing so is now easier than ever with our built-in Ratings & Reviews!

Offline Support

You have asked for it, and now it’s here! All of our Android and iPhone apps now provide offline support. Your attendees can now access the information they need, no matter where they are!

Stay tuned over the coming months as we release even more features and improvements. Most importantly, please continue to reach out with all feedback to help us continue to shape the future of live events!

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

The Attendance Management setting in sessions provides more control over how your attendees can interact with your event's agenda. With Attendance Management options, you're able to show your attendees when a session has limited space or even close off a session until you are ready for them to add it to their My Agenda!

New Session Options

Open

This is the default option and has no limits on how many or when people can add the session to their My Agenda.

Limited

This option requires that you set the maximum number of attendees that can add this session to their My Agenda, and won't let attendees add it once the maximum number you set has been reached. When the session is full and attendees try to add it, they'll be shown the following message, or a customized denial message if you so desire:

Closed

This option won't let attendees add the session to their My Agenda. When attendees try to add it, they'll see the following message, or a customized  denial message if you so desire:

Implement Attendance Management

You can set up Attendance Management options for each session on your agenda. You'll also be able to view how many attendees have added the session to their My Agenda at any time. 

Simply navigate to a specific session in the Socio Platform and scroll down to the Attendance Management area to see all of the options. 

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

The direction of event apps is changing, and there is no stopping this change. As a result, it is up to those who are in the event space to help build the path and expectations for where the industry is going. Socio plans on playing a big part in laying out that path. With pioneers of their respective industries like Google, TEDx, and Harvard University trusting Socio, the groundwork has been laid to lead the event app industry forward.

One thing that never dwindles is our passion for building attendee and organizer centered solutions. This means empowering our event organizers to construct their events in the way they dreamed. With this initiative at our root, our team is able to grant event organizers with events big and small the ability to deliver the experience their attendees crave.

Introducing the New Socio Event App Builder. 

Today we are excited to announce something that our team has been working on over the past few months. This is the all new Socio Platform! With this complete redesign of our Platform, we are bringing forward the ability for a powerful event app through extreme customization. And as the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility, which is why we paid the utmost attention on making sure that the process remained simple by being both intuitive and efficient.

What’s new:

Complete Customization

First of all, it is YOUR event! And no-one knows your attendees better than you, which is why we allow you to both customize and control the content throughout the app creation process.

Intuitive Design

By using simple yet power features like drag-and-drop, the all-new Event App Builder presents your content in the same format your attendees will see and allows you to manage from the same screen. While it sounds straightforward, the importance of allowing you to build your app from the same eyes of your attendees should not be overlooked.

Import

We now will allow you to provide us with your Agenda, Speakers, Sponsors, and more. As a result, you are no longer required to enter everything one-by-one.

Control anywhere

With a new mobile responsive design, our Event App Builder allows you to oversee your event using your computer from your office, the tablet you carry around while preparing for your event, or from the phone in your pocket during your event at all times! We made sure our product works when your event needs you because your event isn’t run from your office, so neither should your software!

Enterprise Level Collaboration

Some events can’t be managed by one person. For this reason, we have built an enterprise level ability to manage and edit events as a team.

App Preview with Real-time Updates

We allow you to build your app and see the changes happen live on your phone. It is important to make sure that you are able to feel and experience exactly what your attendees will, which is why we allow to check out and update your app in real-time. Come see how it works in our webinar!

Advanced Linking

Now this is just cool. Add Item Links, Custom Links, and Attachments everywhere. Event planners know an image is worth a 1000 words, and I’m not sure how to simplify this, so join me in one of our webinars (register below) to see!

There’s more… Socio App Updates!

At the end of the day, after supporting hundreds of event planners, I have learned you are all selfless people. The reason being: the event is about the attendees. This reason has always been and will continue to be a spotlight for Socio. With that in mind, here is a recap of just some of the features we added to our apps as well:

Event Wall

It is your attendees that truly make up an event, and it is important to allow them to make it known. This is why we allow a wall for attendees to make posts and for everyone to be able engage with each other.

Chat / Request Meetings

Making and building connections is the most important part of any event, so we broke down the barrier to chat and setup meetings between attendees.

Agenda Tracks and Personal Agenda

There is not just one reason why all attendees come to your event. This is important to remember. So now we allow you to group your sessions into different tracks allowing your attendees to see the tracks they are most interested in. Furthermore, we allow them to actually build out their own personal agenda before they event show up!

Categorize your Sponsors, Speakers, and more!

Your sponsors and speakers are not all the same and equal. And it is important for your attendees to be able to see the different. We allow now allow you to categorize your items how you see fit!

Available everywhere: 

Blackberry, Windows Phones, Tablets, Computers, we handle them all. With our new read-only web-app, your attendees can access the event from anywhere.

New integrations (Lyft)

We love when our event organizers push us and as a result, we have built some awesome integrations . One of our favorites is an integration with Lyft to help attendees easily navigate through 15 different locations in a single event!

Interested?

If you don’t already know Socio and our perspective on the attendee experience, I invite you to play around in our event app builder, the Socio Platform, and come chat with us. We would love to learn from you as well.

One last thing…

A quick shout-out to our customers and users. After thousands of events, you have all provided invaluable feedback that has come together to mold our solutions for you. We could have not done it without you.  We invite you, and other event organizers or enthusiasts, to provide us with more feedback on everything I mentioned and more.

Before I sign off, I wanted to leave you all with a brief teaser because we are not done with 2017 just yet. Nope, not by a long shot, and we have something BIG in store for the next couple months.

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events