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A Step-by-Step Guide to a Streamlined Conference Management Process
You crack open your “How to Organize a Conference” manual and glance at the table of contents. One look is enough to get any conference director’s heart racing. Well, it […]
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 […]
How Form Building Software Makes Collecting Abstract Submissions Easy
If you’ve tried managing abstract submissions through emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets, then you know it can be a frustrating journey. A form-fillable PDF may be a considerable step up from […]
4 Reasons Your Conference Abstracts Are Coming in Late (and How to Fix It)
Authors and researchers are busy people—especially the ones who are frequently making the rounds on the conference abstracts circuit. But so are you, and late abstracts grind your review and […]