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Plan Your Next Annual Meeting with These 4 Event Technology Solutions
The recipe for planning an annual meeting calls for 1 part tradition, 1 part ingenuity, and many, many parts organization. You build your yearly event on the foundation of what’s […]
The Top 7 Benefits of an Online Form Builder for Conference Directors
Many associations and conference planning committees rely on email for virtually everything. You might see emails go out for: Monthly newsletters Calls for papers Event registrations Session proposals Abstract collection […]
Avoid Scheduling Conflicts with OpenWater’s Visual Scheduler Application
Have you ever woken up from one of these scheduling nightmares in the weeks leading up to your annual meeting?: The bulletin board is littered with sticky notes marking conference […]
Can Your Conference Abstract Management System Do This?
What if someone told you that your abstract management system could do a lot more than just manage conference abstracts? You may wonder, ‘well, what can it do?’ Here are […]
How to Choose the Best Conference Abstract Submission System
So, your association has tasked you with vetting abstract submission systems. Where do you start? Like most folks these days, you may begin by browsing Google search results for vendors […]
Organize Your Conference Abstract Submissions with OpenWater
Managing an abstract submissions process can feel a bit like swimming in the middle of the ocean. The crashing waves of confirmation emails, spreadsheet updates, and email reminders can threaten […]
Use Abstract Management Software to Streamline Your Review Process
A thorough abstract review process has plenty of crannies—multiple rounds of review, communication with reviewers, several interfacing systems or databases—where inefficiencies can hide. When we developed OpenWater, we knew that […]
4 Ways OpenWater’s APIs Can Keep Your Conference Abstracts Organized
You may be wondering, “what’s an API?” Here’s the short version: An API (or “Application Programming Interface”) helps two computer applications talk to each other—usually to share data or access […]
Hit Your Deadlines with These Conference Abstract Review Tips
You can’t move forward with building your conference agenda until the abstract review is completed. If reviewers are down-to-the-wire every year, it adds undue stress to the larger process of […]
3 Tools to Help Automate Your Conference Abstracts Review Process
Somewhere at the back of your mind—behind the first twinges of a headache—you know the conference two months from now can’t happen without a conference abstracts review process, as much […]