App and Website Improve Ticketing Experience for Organizers and Attendees Alike

The event ticketing experience has understandably undergone many changes as technology has improved.  Most people now purchase tickets online either directly from a venue or through a second-party site, often on mobile device as well as PCs. For event organizers, the cost and effort of creating a site for ticket sales or hiring someone to do so typically result in a lackluster look. Not only that, but there is little one can do to encourage ticket sales, respond to potential customers, or know how well tickets are selling and to whom.  To that end, a startup called Nvite exists to make the entire process more involved, interactive, and engaging while making it even easier to work through. Not only that, but it increases customer involvement in unprecedented way while adding something of a social element through community hubs and event pages. Read more »

Chances are that if you own a smartphone and have trouble staying organized, you have an app to help you remember things, and some people have multiple organization apps they hope will help more than any single one.  Errands from Yoctoville, a designer of various apps to help people with daily responsibilities, is a task manager with a simple design that is easy to use.  It offers a variety of services within a single app to help you stay organized in as many different ways as necessary.  It offers more than mere scheduling, though that is included in its features, but even your daily chores can have a customized look to them with Errands.  You can select from a collection of stock images, choose a photo from your library, or take a new photo to personalize your task list. Read more »

Any parent that has ever volunteered to be a leader of any extra-curricular activity for their kids knows that trying to organize children from dozens of families is a harrowing venture.  Cool person in technology Yuval Spector wants to use the Internet to make this task far more manageable and less intimidating.  Mass emails with broken threads, missed phone calls and numerous other problems usually complicate things when trying to plan activities for large groups of children.  However, Spector’s company UpToUs provides parents with numerous organizational tools that can help group leaders keep things organized when working out details with so many other parents.  Spector wants to reduce the potential for chaos when parents are trying to coordinate activities by giving them a central organizational system. Read more »

Large families constantly have trouble keeping their days organized, especially when every member has their own commitments on a daily basis.  Cool product Hub is a mobile app that wants to make it easier for families to stay informed of each other’s schedules and what they’re doing at any given time.  Hub lets each member of a family have their own profile on the app.  Hub groups profiles into family units that have access to each other’s information at any time.  This system makes the app a place where a family can put all their important information to check on quickly and conveniently on any smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device that runs iOS or Android.  This way, when there are parent-teacher conferences, football games, book clubs, dance lessons, and more all going on in the same week, no one in the family has to lose track of each other.  Hub could be especially useful for any families that depend on each other for transportation.  With Hub, there is no excuse for one sibling or parent to forget to pick up another family member from an event or activity.  Any users who want to take advantage but struggle with mobile technology can get help from a mobile computer support company. Read more »