Pro users have always been able to list their upcoming presentations in a small section on their profile pages. That was minimal, but fine. We wanted to step it up a notch, so we’ve added a listing page for upcoming (announced) presentations, along with talk descriptions, maps and an option to encourage readers to attend the event.
You can now import your talks from SlideShare and Speaker Deck to help complete your Notist Profile Page.
One of the things we’ve been working on lately with Notist is ways to make presentations more discoverable. We’ve been blown away with the great and varied decks and videos you’ve been adding to your profiles, and want to make sure that visitors can find those when browsing the site.
We’ve been hard at work since coming out of beta last month, adding new features and making lots of small improvements and fixes.
For the last few weeks, Notist has been open for beta testing. Thanks to great feedback from all corners of the globe, we’ve made some solid improvements, trapped some bugs, and built up a solid list of features we’d all like to see added. We hope it’s been as much fun for you as it has been for us.
Over the last few days we have started to work our way through the queue of signups for Notist, a few at a time. If you reserved your username, you should at some point in the next week or so receive an email to let you know when your account is ready to use.
Many of us who are regulars on the conference circuit have been using Storify to collect lists of tweets and other social feedback from our events, but it is closing down on May 16th.
Over the last day or so I’ve started to add a bunch of my presentations into the Beta version of Notist. I’m Beta Tester Number 1 and excited to share with you a sneak preview of how things are shaping up.
We really loved Lanyrd as a site for logging the events and conferences we were attending and speaking it. As a conference speaker, much of the content you’ve spent time curating in Lanyrd has crossover with the sort of thing you’d want to store in Notist. As it’s no longer possible to log in to Lanyrd, we’ve fast-tracked a tool to help you grab your data.
When Rachel and I decided to build Notist, we did so out of a need for better tools to support public speakers. We both speak at web design and development conferences (me sometimes, her constantly) and were frustrated with the state of the tools available to us. We figured that if we were frustrated, then others would be too.