Joind.in

If you've been visiting the joind.in site lately, you may have noticed some little additions in the sidebars of events ... we've got gravatars! Gravatar is a service that links an avatar with your email address; you can find out more over at ... [More] http://gravatar.com. When you mark yourself as attending, we add the gravatar for the email address you signed up to joind.in with to the event page, so you can see who else will be there. To check if your gravatar is set up, simply log into joind.in and click on your username towards the top right hand side of the screen. If you don't see an avatar then set up the email address you use for joind.in on gravatar, and remember to mark which events you are attending so people know to look out for you! [Less]

Today we've announced something new we hope will help the Joind.in community as a whole - both on the user side and on the developers side: three new mailing lists targeting the different audiences of the site and project. The joind.in project is ... [More] proud to announce the creation of three mailing lists. These are to keep all the contributors, users and other interested parties up to date with what is happening with joind.in and allow us all to collaborate and share ideas around the project's direction. The three lists are: joindin-announce for site-related announcements and general happenings joindin-features for general discussion about the site, feature suggestions and talk on the direction of the site joindin-developers is a list for the developers out there working with the source of the project. Pick your list (or lists!), and start mailing - we're looking forward to your input! [Less]

Today we've announced something new we hope will help the Joind.in community as a whole - both on the user side and on the developers side: three new mailing lists targeting the different audiences of the site and project. The joind.in project is ... [More] proud to announce the creation of three mailing lists. These are to keep all the contributors, users and other interested parties up to date with what is happening with joind.in and allow us all to collaborate and share ideas around the project's direction. The three lists are: joindin-announce for site-related announcements and general happenings joindin-features for general discussion about the site, feature suggestions and talk on the direction of the site joindin-developers is a list for the developers out there working with the source of the project. Pick your list (or lists!), and start mailing - we're looking forward to your input! [Less]

If you're trying to keep up with the latest on all things Joind.in, be sure to check out (and become a fan of!) our site's page on Facebook. There you can find out more about that's going on with the day to day happenings of the site and more about ... [More] how you can get involved in the project by giving back to the project. Word is definitely spreading about the site and the project and more and more events are being added each day! Do you have an even coming up you'd like feedback on? Submit it today! [Less]

If you're trying to keep up with the latest on all things Joind.in, be sure to check out (and become a fan of!) our site's page on Facebook. There you can find out more about that's going on with the day to day happenings of the site and more about ... [More] how you can get involved in the project by giving back to the project. Word is definitely spreading about the site and the project and more and more events are being added each day! Do you have an even coming up you'd like feedback on? Submit it today! [Less]

There's a seldom used feature of the site that's gotten a facelift today - the Speaker Profiles (linked to on the right-hand side of your main user page). The idea behind speaker profiles is to have a centralized place where speakers (or really ... [More] anyone) can keep contact information and share it with other people or organizations. Here it is in a nutshell: you define your profile with all of the information you might want to put in there - including things like phone number, blog URL, email address, etc. With that saved, then you can start selecting the access profiles. You can create as many profiles as you'd like so you can give out customized information to as many people as you'd like. For example, once you've set up your speaker profile, you can create an access profile that might only include the blog URL, email address and full name. Give the profile a name and a "token" value (a unique identifier) and check the boxes for those three values. Simple, right? So, when it comes time to give the external source your contact information, all you need to do is give them that token and they can call our API and get that information. This allows them to get the most recent information from your profile, but only the fields you decide they need. You can find a bit more about these speaker profiles on the Manage User Account page of our Help section. [Less]

There's a seldom used feature of the site that's gotten a facelift today - the Speaker Profiles (linked to on the right-hand side of your main user page). The idea behind speaker profiles is to have a centralized place where speakers (or really ... [More] anyone) can keep contact information and share it with other people or organizations. Here it is in a nutshell: you define your profile with all of the information you might want to put in there - including things like phone number, blog URL, email address, etc. With that saved, then you can start selecting the access profiles. You can create as many profiles as you'd like so you can give out customized information to as many people as you'd like. For example, once you've set up your speaker profile, you can create an access profile that might only include the blog URL, email address and full name. Give the profile a name and a "token" value (a unique identifier) and check the boxes for those three values. Simple, right? So, when it comes time to give the external source your contact information, all you need to do is give them that token and they can call our API and get that information. This allows them to get the most recent information from your profile, but only the fields you decide they need. You can find a bit more about these speaker profiles on the Manage User Account page of our Help section. [Less]

I'm proud to announce the latest feature for the events here on Joind.in - track support! So many of the events that use the site have more than one thing going on at once. They might have different things going on in different rooms or places. Or ... [More] they could just split thing out by different themes (topics, speaker groups, etc). Before now, all of the sessions were just lumped into one main grouping for the site without a way to split them up. With the new track support, it's easy to assign a track a session and filter the list based on that. Events can have an many tracks as they want, but for right now, sessions can only have one track associated with them. This is next up on the list to add in, so keep your eyes open. This will let you not only make a definition like "Room #1" for a talk but it can also be in the "Advanced Technologies" track too. Event admins can find the "Event Tracks" link in their sidebar to get started adding tracks right away. Then you can go into your sessions and add/update them with your tracks. When you have tracks on your event, you'll see a new tab on the even detail with links to them all for filtering down the main list. [Less]

I'm proud to announce the latest feature for the events here on Joind.in - track support! So many of the events that use the site have more than one thing going on at once. They might have different things going on in different rooms or places. Or ... [More] they could just split thing out by different themes (topics, speaker groups, etc). Before now, all of the sessions were just lumped into one main grouping for the site without a way to split them up. With the new track support, it's easy to assign a track a session and filter the list based on that. Events can have an many tracks as they want, but for right now, sessions can only have one track associated with them. This is next up on the list to add in, so keep your eyes open. This will let you not only make a definition like "Room #1" for a talk but it can also be in the "Advanced Technologies" track too. Event admins can find the "Event Tracks" link in their sidebar to get started adding tracks right away. Then you can go into your sessions and add/update them with your tracks. When you have tracks on your event, you'll see a new tab on the even detail with links to them all for filtering down the main list. [Less]

Following on the heels of the iPhone application being release, two developers have written up posts about it and about using the Joind.in API to connect their own applications: Lorna Mitchell has her post talking about the application including a ... [More] bit of information about the site (she's also a developer on the project) and how the iPhone app integrates with it. Derick Rethans went for a slightly different approach and wrote his own interface to our API to pull the latest information about his talks including the talk details and ratings. Hooking into our API is easy - check out the API's documentation for more information. And, as always, if you have questions on it, you can send us a message and we'll be glad to help out. [Less]