https://b2bpresence.com/blog The Business of Building Business Communities Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:13:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://b2bpresence.com/blog/2011/09/planning-an-nfc-badged-event-not-just-another-stinking-badge/ https://b2bpresence.com/blog/2011/09/planning-an-nfc-badged-event-not-just-another-stinking-badge/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:00:56 +0000 http://b2bpresence.com/?p=337 Google NFC and what do you get? Lots of info about the Dallas Cowboys. Google “NFC -football” and everything changes: there are 37 million pages of info about Near Field Communication, the specification for simplified wireless transactions coming soon to a smart phone near you. I’m working with the Smart Card Alliance and NFC Forum to launch a big new NFC event next year in San Francisco. Of course the badging system needs to be NFC compatible, and we’re working with an NFC-savvy registration company. What I’m learning is that this technology, if it catches on, could change the economics of registration services at major events. With a “true” NFC badging system, any smartphone becomes a lead retrieval device. That’s great for event planners, right? Imagine everyone at your event, vendors, attendees, and press–scanning each other for networking purposes. If you’re running a registration company, you just had a heart attack, because that eliminates your main source of revenue–lead retrieval devices and services. We had a long discussion with the registration company about how to solve this problem and the answer was “Apps. Maybe.” This will be an interesting project because, if it works out, everything at the conference will be scannable: people, booths, technology demos, posters, food service stations, and who knows what else. I’ll keep you updated.

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