About a year ago, we switched all of our customers from email to Slack. It was an eye opener. Since then, we changed our web chat to Drift.com and, most importantly, started experimenting with bots and new ways of collaborating online in our Lab.
MeetAtInbound.com is just one more of these experiment.
As I'm sure many of you have, I have attended hundreds of conferences and meetups over the past twenty years. I also had the privilege of organizing hundreds of activities for and together with Endeavor.org, First Tuesday, The Founder Institute, and Startup Weekend.
One request we consistently got was "more and better networking." The one thing I always miss at conferences happens to be the same. And it seems to be the hardest thing to do.
Slack has changed the way we work and it seems that people have already been using it for events and conferences. Slack even has its own recommendations for it.
A perfect challenge for our lab. Just a few days ago - with less than a week to go to Inbound 2016- I asked myself five questions and wrote down some notes.
1. What do we want at a conference?
Apart from the obvious: the sessions, entertainments and after hours cocktails, which HubSpot has taken good care of all already, conferences are about connecting with people.
- Meet the people I have on my list and strengthen ties with them
- Discover contacts that might lead to business opportunities
- Have a good time with like-minded people
