the one-stop, mobile enabled conference agenda, social stream and photo scavenger hunt.
Use the schedule app to plan your conference, and sync it to your smartphone. Save a tree! Fill out the session evaluations on-line directly from your agenda! Meet new people and visit new places by getting involved in the Photo Safari. Gather the most points and take home some sweet prizes.
How it works
Just like last year, you can particpate in the BackChannel by using these apps and gaining points. At the end of the UC, we'll send out some sweet gear to the leaders. Also, At various points in the conference we will be awarding some other spontenous prizes (think "beer").
New Goodies
- Personalized Mobile Agenda
- Points for rating a session
- Login using Twitter or FaceBook
- Add FaceBook photos to the Safari
- Add Instragram photos to the Safari
- Aggregated Social Stream
Register Now!
It just takes a second to register, you'll get 20 points right out of the gate. Between now and the start of the conference, you can earn points everyone you recruit (caveat: they must be attending the UC). The more participants, the better the prizes!
BackChannel Swag
So we want to give away some amazing stuff, but we also want to encourage people to participate. So, here's how it works. The more people who participate, the better the schwag. Our goal is to give away 3 iPads, but in order to get there, we need you get everyone you know who's going to the UC to get involved.
| Active Users | Prizes |
|---|---|
| 0-100 | 1st,2nd and 3rd place get T-Shirts |
| 101-500 | 1st place: $100 Visa gift card. 2nd and 3rd place get T-Shirts |
| 501-1000 | 1st place: iPod Touch (8Gb) ,2nd and 3rd place get $100 Visa gift cards |
| 1001-2000 | 1st: 32Gb iPod Touch, 2nd: 16Gb iPod Touch and 3rd: 8Gb iPod Touch |
| 2001-5000 | 1st: iPad (16Gb, Wifi), 2nd: 32Gb iPod Touch and 3rd: 16Gb iPod Touch |
| 5001+ | 1st: iPad (64Gb, Wifi), 2nd: iPad (32Gb, Wifi) and 3rd:iPad (16Gb, Wifi) |
Note: An "Active User" means more than 30 points
#Winning: How to Earn Points
There are 3 ways to earn points:
Photo Safari
The main way to win points is to upload a photo of you and someone/something on the Photo Safari list.
Spreading the Love
Since the prizes get better the more people we have participating. When you register, we'll create a custom BackChannel invite url for you to share with everyone else you know that's going to the UC. For everyone that sign's up with your invite, you'll get 20 points.
Rating Sessions
Esri really wants to get feedback about the sessions, and we've streamlined that by allowing you to rate a session directly from the agenda. For every session you rate (one per time-slot) we'll hand you 20 points.
BackChannel Stats
| Registered Users: | 318 |
| Photos Submitted: | 210 |
| Session Evaluations: | 219 |