19Jan/116

What if Lotusphere used QR Codes for Vendor Bingo?

We all know the game. You get the vendor bingo card in your reg pack with vendor logos on it, you visit the booth's in the product showcase and get them stamped. You return the completed card which enters you into the drawing for an amazing prize.

What if it were updated for 2011? Vendors get a QR Code printed on a card the size of a post card and attendees scan them with their phone's qr code reader. The code takes them to a web page that asks for name and email address the transports them to their mobile bingo card. As they collect the codes at each booth visit the page updates. When they get bingo; visit all participating vendor booths, they are automatically entered into the drawing.

The staff; those managing the vendor bingo campaign, can pick the random winner. The winner's name can be posted through the service. The best part, the attendees have a permanent record of their vendor visits along with their contact information on.their.phones! They can make notes and view the info later after the event.

This is... vendorbingo.com

I am currently looking for interested vendors in taking part in what I believe could generate some buzz in the product showcase floor at Lotusphere and work to drive traffic to the booth.

This idea was way too late to pitch the Lotusphere staff but there is no reason why a handful of vendors can't get together and experiment with an interactive concept that is just now going mainstream.  The prize will be a top of the line iPad. The cost to vendors is only $125. I am running this as a break even event. If we don't get enough to cover the cost of the iPad, no one pays.

If you'd like to take it for a test spin, check out the Lotusphere Demo.

If you're intrested in being a part of this please contact me at vendorbingo@collaborancy.com or booth 337 :)

Please help me spread the word to all vendors that are looking to increase booth traffic!  vendorbingo.com

7Dec/090

2009 Lotus Blogger of the Year & other awards.

Voting has started for the 2nd annual Planet Lotus Blogger of the Year award. The voting is the same as last year, simply log into PL and vote. You can change your votes as often as you wish. Voting will end at 5pm EST on the Friday before Lotusphere.

Discuss here -> FAQ: 2009 Blogger Awards in the Planet Lotus Forum

UPDATE: Dropping the Project of the Year all together....

OpenNTF.org: Best Open Source Contribution 2010 Lotus Awards

4Jan/08Off

planetlotus.org Lotusphere Twitter details

Planet Lotus is seeking to expand its aggregation of feeds to benefit not only those on the ground at Lotusphere but those that couldn't make it.

If you are interested in having your Lotusphere (and beyond) tweets show up here send me; or post to comment below, your twitter rss feed. Make sure it's yours and does not include your friends time line (check to see that it starts with http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/).

*You must have a blog listed on this site to participate.

*Twitter at Planet Lotus is Opt In only. Simply email me your twitter account username.

View what it will look like here: http://planetlotus.org/twitter/

Learn more here: http://www.twitter.com & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Email your feed here: yancylent ]@[ lotusreport.com

UPDATE. Please email me. Due to spam im closing the comments to this post.

3Jan/081

Lotusphere 2008 and Twitter

I'm looking for the best way to promote the blogging community's twitter at Lotusphere. I initially thought the Lotusphere Twitter account would do this, and maybe that is its mission, but it looks to be a handful of twitter-ers tweeting to everyone else. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

What I propose is allowing anyone with a blog posted here to either send me, or post as a comment; their twitter url / twitter rss feed and they will be included in a Twitter View off the main page.

My vision is the 'Lotusphere Twitter' link on mobile.planetlotus.org would incorporate all twitters.