How to Get through Peer Review of your Abstract

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The peer review process is an essential checkpoint in academic publishing, ensuring the integrity, originality, and quality of research before it reaches the public domain. With an ever-growing number of researchers submitting work year after year, this rigorous process has become even more critical. Peer reviewers, as experts in their respective fields, carefully evaluate submissions for relevance, authenticity, and contribution to the field.

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How to Ensure your Event Sticks to the Timeline you Set Out for it?

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Are you thinking to plan an event in no time? Do not forget to make the timeline a part of your planning. Timelines have a crucial role to play in Event Planning. You always have a risk of not meeting the deadlines, if not prepared a timeline well. Here are some tips to make an efficient timeline for your well-organized event.
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Dryfta is the Best Event Schedule Builder for Event Organizers: Here’s Why

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Creating a dynamic and interactive event schedule goes a long way in improving participants’ engagement in a conference. Dryfta event scheduling software comes with a very expansive list of features to make it easy for organizers to build an interactive program schedule in no time.

For participants, it enables them to create a personalized schedule and browse through various sessions on the event website and the event app. When they’re at the conference, they can check-in to program sessions, explore presenters’ bio and other session-related information. Post the conference, participants would use it for submitting feedback for sessions they have attended, downloading the presentation files, etc.

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10 Sure-Fire ways to Attract Attendees to your next Event

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A well-executed event can help boost brand awareness, facilitate lead generation and increase your sales. However, a well-planned event but a poorly promoted one does little to meet the goals you set out for it. Nothing is more discouraging than a lukewarm turn-out for an event you’ve invested your physical and intellectual capacities in. Which is why we’ve put together a list of activities you must tie in with your promotions.

Here are some sure shot ways you can boost the attendance to your event and make it a success:

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Management Tools & Workflows for Speakers and Attendees

 

The ability to delegate tasks and getting them done right and on time is the key to a successful event. For easier and efficient task management, it is important to have a well-planned, task-by-task approach for volunteers and admin staff and be able to hold them accountable for their tasks that they have been assigned with.

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Design and Print Beautiful Name Badges

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We’re happy to announce the partnership with Conferencebadge.com! Their state-of-the-art badge builder tool allows you to print customized name badges along with option to add attendee photo and QR code.

Simply go to Badge builder in your Dryfta event platform, select attendee data you wish to include in the name badges and export the file.

This file can then easily be uploaded to ConferenceBadge.com to create beautiful name badges that you can print at your premise or have Conference Badge print and ship right to your doorstep.

Here’s how to customize and print your name badges :

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Event Organizers, here’s How to Backup your Gmail Account to your Computer

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More than 1.2 billion users use Gmail everyday i.e. almost around 15% of the world population. With so many users, there have been moments when Gmail service experienced outages and crashes.

What’s more worrisome though is numerous horror stories of Gmail accounts being closed without consent. Gmail tends to close accounts without notice and there’s very little you can do to recover them. The only way you can keep your mails safe is by keeping a backup copy of your mails.
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Sell Tickets on your Event Website using Square Payment Gateway

Less than 5 percent of the people have PayPal account, while more than 95 percent have credit cards. If your event website permits only PayPal, it will mean that most attendees will be unable to pay. In such a case the creation of your event website was pointless. Therefore, a credit card processor is necessary to facilitate all payments and not just PayPal.

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Square payment gateway charges lower transaction fee (2.75% on card swipe), is very user-friendly, and has option to transfer money to your bank account instantly. Also, since we already have an integration built for Square, just like we have integration for Stripe, PayPal, Cybersource and other payment gateways, it takes only a few minutes to set up your payments form.

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Dryfta received 2018 High Performer award in G2Crowd’s Usability Index report

 

Dryfta has achieved 2018 High Performer Award based on the responses of real users for each of the Usability Index related questions featured in the G2 Crowd review form.

Dryfta’s Usability Index ratings were highlighted by ‘Ease of Use’, which scored [8.9], and Dryfta’s ‘Ease of Admin’ was [9.3] compared to the category average of [5.3].

The Usability Index Report is based on ratings by business professionals. Dryfta received ten or more reviews and five responses for each of the usability-related questions to qualify for inclusion in the Usability Index.

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Event Planning Guide [PDF] for Academic Conferences

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How-to guide to manage academic conferences

Are you planning an academic conference?

The first thing that comes to mind right away is how to pull it through successfully managing the conference, making sure every task is done seamlessly and smoothly. Online registrations and abstract submissions are being taken care of. Attendees are engaged, food is good, transportation & logistics are error-free, and last but not least, ensuring those event organizers get a decent ROI in monetary profits and attendees engagement.

 

We went through every step involved in conference planning and created a How-to guide for you. This event planning guide lists the step by step approach for planning and managing an academic conference:

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Dryfta has Won Accolades for its Event Management Platform

Dryfta earned recognitions lately after having gone through a review of trusted B2B directory FinancesOnline.com. The results were very positive – our event management software emerged with a score of 8.0 out of 10 and a perfect user satisfaction rating of 100%. We were also mentioned as one of the top SaaS software solutions on their platfrom.

Reviewers observed how our platform specially designed for universities and non-profits is able to help users conceptualize, plan and manage events within a cloud based environment. The software experts further noted the comprehensive features and event management capabilities of Dryfta to facilitate planning events and turning them into successful events.
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