Integrate Dryfta with HubSpot Using Zapier: A Complete Guide

Integrate Dryfta with HubSpot Using Zapier: A Complete Guide

If you are organizer who has been manifesting better data organization for your event, this blog is the sign you’ve been looking for. With greater ambitions for your event company also comes the necessity to segment and arrange your data better. Perhaps you’ve been exporing your options for a while now. In this piece, we’re offering you one more to add to your list. You can integrate Dryfta with HubSpot using Zapier so that your selected event contact data reaches HubSpot without a manual CSV import. A controlled one-way workflow forms the safest starting point, built around a verified Dryfta contact trigger, an optional formatting or filter step, and a HubSpot find or create and update action.

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Moving Event Platforms Without Losing Conference History

Moving Event Platforms Without Losing Conference History

An academic association that has run its annual conference on the same platform for years carries far more inside that system than a spreadsheet of names. What we’re speaking of is years of accepted abstracts, reviewer assignments, programme structures, payment records and certificates. All of which now remain inside the event management system that the organization is now considering leaving. Migration and preservation are often treated as the same task, though an event platform migration and a preservation plan actually solve two different problems.

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How to Test Abstract Forms for Accessibility

How to Test Abstract Forms for Accessibility

Accessibility, when installed only superficially into your event management experience, is merely an oxymoron. It claims to be within reach for all but still falls short in important places, ultimately rendering it futile. This is the story of many abstract forms today. Designers believe they have created it with accessibility and PwD in mind, but only upon use do they realize that there are gaps leaking through. Abstract submission form accessibility is, therefore, only complete when you’ve tested it thoroughly before it goes live for the public. It is certainly not a great feeling for individuals to realize halfway through filling your abstract submission form that the form fields never truly accounted for their special needs.

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SSO for University Conferences: A Comprehensive Guide

SSO for University Conferences: A Comprehensive Guide

No one enjoys logging in multiple times within a single interface. This is the core reason why university conference SSO, or single sign-on authentication, exists. To break down, in practical terms, what SSO really means, let’s look at an analogy that university goers find most relevant. They go through it on the daily. The university you attend is likely to have allotted a physical or digital identity card for you that the institution expects you to use throughout your time there. There may be an individual or something automated like a biometric system that verifies, authorizes, and lets people into campus.

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What Event Data Should You Delete After a Conference?

What Event Data Should You Delete After a Conference?

What do you do when something that has given you a lot to remember…finally ends. How to you decide what to keep and what to discard? And no, this isn’t about your last failed relationship. The similarities can be quite uncanny but what we’re talking about are events. Conference data retention, or choosing what to retain from the bulk of that which remains after an event.

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How to Build a Reserve Reviewer Pool for Abstract Review

How to Build a Reserve Reviewer Pool for Abstract Review

You have an academic event coming up and you and the team are now working through the toughest, often trickiest part of the planning: abstract management. All academic and scientific events hope for their selected submissions to be the best out of the lot. So, you set up a three-step review process. But the catch is that you have a reserve reviewer pool that doesn’t quite match the workload your team is looking at. Therefore, you are forced to find qualifies reviewers in the last minute when you realize that the magnitude of your submissions far outweigh the reviewer reserve in hand. Suffering from success, eh?

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How to Build a Conference Operations Dashboard

How to Build a Conference Operations Dashboard

Is your room always messy despite you making a mental note to keep it tidy and organized? Does your living space become cluttered all over again only a few days after tidying it? And do you hate it? You probably do. This curse of having things all over the place is something that the majority dislikes. And wants to fix. But mostly they don’t know how to. Anything changes that they do make become lost to routine and the demands of everyday life. Data generated in your conference works similarly. No event planner enjoys having to work with information that’s in disarray. Information gets held up in silos and the team is left scatterbrained in trying to simply make sense of operations.

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Pop-up Events- The Complete Guide to Planning Them

Pop Up Events- The Complete Guide to Planning and Running Them

Pop-up events are now one of the most cost-effective ways to create brand buzz. According to a Google survey cited by Zendesk, brands that ran pop-up activations reported a 46% increase in sales, a 51% rise in market visibility and 66% greater brand awareness compared to periods without a pop-up presence.

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How to Handle Abstract Withdrawal After Acceptance Without Disrupting Your Conference

How to Handle Abstract Withdrawal After Acceptance Without Disrupting Your Conference

We regret to inform you that we need to withdraw our accepted abstract.” This sentence catches many organizers off guard, even though accepted abstract withdrawal happens on a fairly regular basis across scientific conferences of every size. And abstract withdrawal after acceptance is not always intentional, no. Most times it’s due to something unforeseen. The presenter may have fallen ill or could be unable to make it to the conference, or perhaps their work has been accepted elsewhere.

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Abstract vs Full Paper: The Difference Explained

Abstract vs Full Paper: The Difference Explained

When the call is for an abstract but you submit an entire paper. You may not be the brighter crayon in the box but this is a rather honest mistake to make. Abstract vs full paper: what is the distinction really? Is an abstract more of a trailer into your paper or is it the first page of your final paper? 

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Best Advocacy Tools That Non-profits Can Use

Advocacy Tools That Non-profits Can Use

What non-profit organizations do day in and day out is work, rally toward a cause. A movement. A people. Much of the work of non-profits is targeted at advocacy, whether that be rights advocacy, environmental advocacy or even legislative advocacy. Most non-profits organizations, at least the ones that are creating real change, run on consistent funding and volunteer support. Without the two, a non-profit and its vision is bound to fail. In fact, many do every year. Only a fraction of all non-profits actually make it in the long run. So what could possibly multiply a non-profit’s chances of making it in the world today? Among the things that help are advocacy tools for non-profits.

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Advocacy Tools: Mobilize Stakeholders, Amplify Program Impact & Measure Engagement Beyond the Event

Advocacy Tools: Mobilize Stakeholders, Amplify Program Impact & Measure Engagement Beyond the Event

Traditional event management tools are only tapping a fraction of the potential of advocacy-driven features. Advocacy tools, often used to garner public support toward civic causes or social movements, are powerful avenues for event professionals to intensify and catapult reach. Business advocacy, particularly in B2B events, can also benefit from advocacy tools for associations. These include tools such as a stakeholder mobilization software or even a plug-in that can further an event’s engagement metrics. Advocacy tools are necessary and in action, they’ve proven worthy additions to conventional event management softwares and tools.

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