Back Channel
The lovely people over at Madgex (with thanks to Glenn Jones in particular) have once again put together a fantastic back channel for us to use during Over the Air, using their BackNetwork platform. It’s a great way to start making contact with each other before the event even begins, and staying in touch long after!
Backnetwork has been built not only to collect information, but to share it. It makes extensive use of microformats and RSS. There are many opportunities on the site to subscribe to feeds or to copy preformatted code for use in your own websites.
Profiles
* Find other attendees by name, role and company
* Find attendees by location mapped from your postcode
* Export any contact details directly to applications like Outlook
* Provide preformatted code in hCard
Relationship
* Define your relationships to other attendees
* View the relationship networks of other attendees
* Export your network list for RSS readers
* Provides preformatted code in XFN format to create blogrolls
Chat
* A live chat feature will be available on the day of the conference
* Web-based with no need for extra software
* All the chat will be archived as a historical resource
Aggregated news
* Collects and aggregates news from delegate blogs
* Allows you to view news by individual contributor
* Assigns any news containing your name to your profile
* Subscribe to an RSS attendees news feed
Reviews
* Create a review of sessions using a simple form
* View reviews grouped by session
* Provides preformatted code in hReview format
* Subscribe to an RSS feed of reviews
Photos
* Displays all the Flickr photos tagged backnetwork
* Assigns any tag with your name to your profile
We would love as much feedback as possible. If you have any comments, suggestions or corrections please email info@backnetwork.com.
