UPDATE! We've upgraded Video Rooms and Video Chat to allow 13 attendees and 3 moderators in a Video Room and 13 private video chat participants. Video Rooms also now work on Mobile! 🙌 

Listen up, folks! We just opened up a whole new world of networking and attendee interaction in Socio. Half the magic of attending an event in-person is being able to talk to people face to face. Anything that brings virtual attendees closer to that experience is a huge win for your events. That's why we're thrilled to announce the release of the Video Rooms feature and private video messaging.

Video Rooms

With Video Rooms, you can set up spaces where up to 10 attendees and 3 moderators can talk with one another via live video, audio, and typed messages and send Connection requests. Attendees can also share their screen.

You can use Video Rooms for breakout discussions, live Q&A, staff meetups, icebreaker rooms, Sponsor demo rooms, or whatever else you can dream up. For now, this feature is only available on the Web App, but mobile support is coming soon!

Video Room moderators don't count against the 13-person limit, and they can remove people from the room and delete their chats at the same time.

To get started, check this out.

Private Video Chat

Along with Video Rooms, we've added video messaging to the current attendee to attendee text chat on both the Web and Mobile apps! Currently, you can have up to 10 people in your private video chat. 😄 

Web App Attendees can click the Video button at the bottom of a chat conversation. 

Mobile App users can tap the + icon at the bottom of a chat conversation and then tap Video. When they're ready, people can click or tap Join Video Chat.

Inside a Video session, users can mute their voice or video feed and send each other typed messages. Web App users can also share their screen. 

We're super happy to bring these awesome features to you. Here's to many more in the future! 🙌 

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

The moment you've been waiting for ever since we announced Socio's RTMP Player is here. Socio's Q&A and Polling make it easier than ever to host your live stream in the Socio Platform. There's no need to pay for an outside tool, and everything you need to keep your attendees engaged with your sessions is manageable from one central place.

Socio's Q&A and Polling functionality become available after you publish your event, once you have access to the Manage tools. You can enable Q&A and Polling individually for certain sessions or live streams, have a dedicated feature for each, or even import several at a time. 

The flexibility is in your hands. For Q&A, you can require that questions be moderated before going live (or not), and even allow anonymous questions. For polling, you can schedule polls in advance or make them active whenever you want, and allow users to view polling results (or not) as desired. 🙌

Best of all, question moderation and Q&A/Polling settings are all manageable from the Socio Platform. 

For more info on how to set up these features, check out our Q&A and Polling articles!

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

The Socio team is thrilled to present two new Event App features - Single Item and Single Document!

Single Item

The Single Item feature provides you with a simple and clean way to present information to event app users. Use this feature to highlight your event WiFi instructions, event contact info, a welcome letter, or any other content that deserves a standalone feature.

This is similar to the Custom List feature, but instead has only one item that opens in a simple, one-click view.

The Single Item feature lets you easily share critical information with attendees, putting it front and center in your event app! This helps save you time you'd have spent answering attendee questions, and helps your event go as smoothly as possible. We've got your back. 👍 

Single Document

The Single Document feature is a quick way to present a document or image to event app users, directly from the home page of your event app. Use this feature to showcase the seating chart, dinner menu, or any other information best presented in hard-copy form.

This is similar to the Documents feature, but with only one document that launches immediately on-click.

The Single Item feature and Single Document feature let you easily share critical information with attendees, putting it front and center in your event app! This helps save you time you'd have spent answering attendee questions, and helps your event go as smoothly as possible. We've got your back. 👍 

It's simple! Add the Single Item and Single Document feature to your event in the Socio Platform now. 

For a personalized discussion on how the Single Item and Single Document feature can be used in your event, feel free to chat with us, or schedule a call with one of our event tech experts today.

But wait — there were several other exciting product updates included in this release, including session reminders, announcements improvements, the ability to hide agenda participants, the ability to hide inactive attendees, and more! For more info, check this out.

Questions? Chat Us or Email support@socio.events

The Socio team is excited to introduce our newest feature - the App Guide! 

The App Guide feature provides event app users with easy access to our extensive Event App Help Center, including feature walk-through articles and networking best practices. Like you, we want your attendees to get the most out of your event app!

Whether your event app goals include increasing interaction, engagement, and sponsorship ROI, or simplifying the distribution of information, the App Guide will aid in these efforts by ensuring all attendees can use your event app to the utmost advantage. For more info, check out the below! 👇

You invest in your event app for a lot of reasons - all of which require your attendees to engage with it! While it may be clear to you why you implemented your event app, some attendees may be unsure of how to get the most out of the app. Enter: the App Guide.

While we work to ensure our app is easy to navigate and intuitive for attendees to use, there will always be folks who want a walkthrough! We've got them covered.

Others will be engaging with the app already, but are interested in making sure they're using all of the features to their best advantage. We've got them covered too. 👍 

The App Guide feature furthers your event app goals by:

• Articulating the value-add of the app features and increasing interaction with them
• Prompting your attendees to engage and providing best practices for doing so
• Reducing the strain on your event staff by ensuring attendees know how to get the information they need out of the app

It's simple! Add the App Guide to your event in the Socio Platform today. 

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 incorporating the App Guide feature in your event!

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