National Health Service Health & Environment Conference – A Case Study

Great Product – Simple to Use and Creates a very professional event platform

NHS Highland Research, Development & Innovation Conference was organized by Centre for Health Science, Inverness. The themes for 2016’s Annual Conference focus on the impact that Specific Aspects of the Environment has on our Health.

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Used Dryfta for: Event registration, Creating Event website, Speakers & Attendees lists, Abstract management, Program schedule with Session check-ins, Event app, Photo Gallery

Here’s a quick interview with Alan Whiteside, Innovation Consultant,NHS Highland, about his experience with using the Dryfta event platform for NHS Highland Research, Development & Innovation Conference 2016.
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PNW PHP Conference – A Case Study

The Pacific Northwest PHP Conference is a 3-day event for PHP developers living in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Used Dryfta for: Selling tickets online using Stripe payment gateway, Creating Event website, Email marketing, Automated email notifications, Abstract management, Peer reviews, Sponsors lists, Speakers lists, Event registration, Program schedule

Here’s a quick interview with Tessa Mero, Organizer for the PNW PHP Conference, about her experience with using the Dryfta event platform for PNW PHP Conference 2016.
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Dublin City University – Case Study

Dublin City University organized the Digital Learning Research Symposium to give voice to a wide range of Irish educators and researchers across all levels and sectors. Over 40 submissions were received for concise research papers and rapid fire presentations from a number of first-time participants, doctoral candidates and teams working on interesting research projects.

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Used Dryfta for: Event registration, Abstract management, Conducting Peer reviews, Creating Event website, Email marketing, Custom contents, Storify integration, Display Twitter feeds

Here’s a quick interview with Dr. Eamon Costello, IT Programmes Director, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University, about his experience with using the Dryfta event platform for Digital Learning Symposium 2016.
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Collect Abstract Submissions Fees Online

If you charge a processing fee per abstract submission or per accepted abstract submission for your conference, then Dryfta event platform is for you. Using Dryfta, you can create tickets to collect abstract submission fees for all submitted & accepted abstracts.

For abstract submissions, as soon as the fee payment is confirmed, the system would allow author to submit the abstract/s. Admin can select the number of abstracts that can be submitted per ticket and set the dates for abstract submission site to open and close abstract submissions.

For fees paid for accepted abstracts to allow authors to present the paper at the conference, once author has paid the fee through credit card, the system would send the invoice to the author and updates the abstract submission with the Paid status automatically. This makes sure admin knows if the accepted abstract has been paid for or not.

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Create & Customize Abstract Book using the upgraded Abstract Book Builder

Last week, we added the ability to include custom fields from user registration and reviewer registration forms into abstract book. The Abstract book builder already has the ability to include the fields from abstract submission and review submission forms. The recent upgrade just makes it more complete abstract book builder tool than ever before.

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This feature lets you add authors’ and reviewers’ data in the abstract book. You have the option to choose which fields you want to display in the abstract book. It also allows you to include the Download link to the presentation files of authors/speakers.

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Let us know if this upgrade is what you wanted and how do you plan to use it.

 

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Universities & organizations signed up for Dryfta event platform (September)

With newly added features and awesome reviews from our customers, Dryfta has gained 3 new customers in the university segment last month alone and has added many new universities, including: Dublin City University, The Edinburgh University, NHS Highland and John Hopkins All Children Hospital.

Alongside universities, we have signed up a host of organizations including Granshan Conference, Pacific Northwest PHP Conference and Red Exporty Events — they are using Dryfta to host their conferences for their various needs including selling tickets, abstract submission and peer review, email marketing, event website, accepting donations, creating badges & participation certificates and more.

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We’ve invested a lot of resources in our platform. Be it in terms of user interactive design, or, state of the art features, and have brought aboard some of the best design and programming talent available. All of us together help Dryfta become the most preferred event management platform for event organizers.
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The Pain Points that Dryfta Solves

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A common approach to set up an academic or a nonprofit conference is to use an array of tools, e.g., WordPress, Eventbrite, Easychair, and Mailchimp. Then put your staff into multi-tasking mode and try to get your event off the ground.

What would it be like if you could access all of these features from a single platform, all fully integrated, making for a seamless, unified data flow? Dryfta event platform solves this issue of unstructured data flow caused primarily due to using one too many tools by offering a set of fully-integrated tools. Let’s see how Dryfta stacks up with each of these tools regarding features and functionality.

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Things that can be done using Dryfta Event Platform

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Here’s a list of some of the things that you can do using Dryfta:

Send out invitations – Use the Email Broadcast tool to send email campaigns, send emails to selected contacts, view campaign reports etc.

Handle registration – Form builder allows you to build registration forms with custom fields you want.

Enable participants to pay their participation fee in advance from their credit cards – Payment settings under Basics lets you choose various payment methods including PayPal, Credit Card (you will need a payment gateway like PayPal, Stripe, 2Checkout etc), Wire Transfer. We do not charge any fee on payments you collect. We only charge for the plan you purchase. See here: https://dryfta.com/plans

Enables you to follow up with registration issues – Dryfta has event industry’s best event CRM to manage every details of your contact including his/her information, tickets, abstracts submitted and send private emails to your contacts.

Send further mails before the conference starts – You can send unlimited number of email campaigns as and when you want.

Apart from the above features, you also have the following tools at your disposal:

Abstract submissions & Peer reviews – If you are accepting abstract submissions and call for papers, then this is what you need. Allow authors to submit abstracts, assign them to reviewers to review them and then build an abstract book out of accepted abstracts automatically.

Participation Certificate Builder – Give your attendees a certificate of participation. You can customize your participation certificate like the way you want with event logo and signature. Our customers are loving it!

Event website themes – Design your own event website using beautiful themes. No HTML knowledge required. All you need to do is a few clicks and you are all set with your event website.

There’re more features which I wanted to mention here but I suggest you to explore your Dryfta platform and use them as per the need for your event.

 

Abstract Book Builder for Conferences

Abstracts submitted? Check. Abstracts Reviewed? Check. Authors notified? Check. What’s next? Welcoming the attendees at the conference, engaging them with programs and workshops, and presenting the Abstract Book, among various other things.

But it takes a lot of time and resources to design and build your abstract book, which could otherwise be used for more meaningful purposes! So how can you build an abstract book easily and beautifully without wasting much of your precious time?

Presenting the Abstract Book Builder.

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Using Abstract Book Builder, it takes less than 5 minutes to design and publish your abstract book. Design your abstract book, add front and back covers, add a custom background image, add custom contents viz. chairman’s message, list of reviewers etcetera, choose abstracts (accepted, rejected or all) to publish and finally generate the abstract book in downloadable PDF format.

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Why your Product never seems good enough

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Hi. This is your Chief Happiness Officer.

I’m very delighted to see 100s of users using Dryfta to manage their events 3 months after our private beta release. I take this oppurtunity to thank our founding customers especially my team for clinging to this vision of having an all-inclusive event management platform for event organizers and delivering on our promises.
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Academia’s Most Popular Event Management Software

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The world of event management software is vast, with almost 300 options to choose from. But not all platforms are created equal, nor do they cater to every type of event. Some specialize in registration systems, while others focus on attendee engagement. Certain platforms are tailor-made for corporate events, while others have been adapted to fit academic conferences. However, none of these platforms were originally designed with academic conferences in mind.

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