The OpenWater Blog

What We’re Reading: Event ROI, Social Media Tips, & the Dangers of Multitasking

This week we’re reading… BizBash Simplifying Event R.O.I. From awards galas, to industry conferences, the ROI of events is a continuous conversation without resolution. What is event ROI and how […]

What is Social Proof and How Can it Impact Your Awards?

It’s time for another cycle of your awesome awards program. You and your team have planned everything out and your call for entry is approaching. What’s one thing you, and […]

Can You Guess the Awards Program Based on Its Logo? [Quiz]

When you think of an awards program, like the Academy Awards or the CLIOs, chances are one of the first things you think about is its logo. After all, an […]

The Voice for Conference Planners

The goal of this blog is to talk about the problems faced by conference planners and organizers. A conference may only be a few hours long or span a few […]

What You Can Learn From Your Awards Program’s Entrants

You already know that no awards program is ever finished. Meaning that there is always something you can change or improve to take your program to the next level. The […]

Switch Between Domains (for clients with multiple domains)

For those clients who have multiple looks and feels, for their various programs, we now have an easy way to toggle the domain in the admin view. At the top […]

Entry Form Setup Improvements

Here are the latest updates to the entry form builder and categories panels: Clone Fields Need to ask the same question a few times? Or have a nested field that […]

Continuous Judging Workflow

As part of our new judging layout release, we’ve also added an option for judges to keep scoring entries without always having to go back to the list of entries […]

Restrict Online Gallery to Members Only

With the release of our public gallery, our number one request for it has been to make it a “somewhat public” gallery. You can now require users to login to […]

Bulk Assign or Unassign to a Single Judge

We are continuing to build out a whole suite of judge assignment improvements in the next few weeks. We were able to include one quick improvement for this go-round: ability […]