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Posts tagged with “tools”

An Interview with Ben Vinegar

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

We sat down with Ben Vinegar, suave businessman and product developer for Guestlist, to talk about their new event management application.

Refresh Events: Hi Ben, thanks for sitting down with us. Tell us a bit more about Guestlist.

Ben Vinegar: Thanks for having us. Basically, Guestlist is a new event registration service that focuses on usability and design, and not a phonebook-sized feature list. It lets you publish beautiful looking event pages, sell tickets online, and manage your attendees with ease.

RE: Why did you decide to create this?

BV: Back in 2008 we were a bunch of web developers itching to solve a problem, and event registration just kind of intrigued us. We aren’t event organizers ourselves, but as technically-minded folk in Toronto, we sure do attend a lot of them, and it became clear that existing products for managing events could stand to be simplified.

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Tools for Event Organization

Friday, June 26th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

(This post previously appeared on the Big Bang Technology blog.)

As an event designer, I use a number of tools to help organize and execute various events in the tech/web community. While I won’t be able to talk about all of them today, I’d like to focus on a few that I REALLY like.

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State of the Twitter-sphere

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

The Twitter-sphere is quite literally exploding. Since it’s launch in July of 2006, the user community has grown to an estimated 3.5-4.5 million users. It has been used to provide citizen journalism during the Mumbai attacks, the recent presidential election in the US, as well as more localized events such as MacWorld and CES.

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