Crowdvine offers both free and paid versions of their event networks

I had a chance to speak with Tony Stubblebine from Crowdvine after he commented on my post last week, correctly noting that I’d failed to do my proper Googling to include all the players in the “social networks tied to real world events” space.

Crowdvine, like Eventvue and Pathable, does offer some social networking featuring based around connecting people in real life at conferences, but I did like the way Crowdvine sought to minimize the “fill out a questionnaire” approach to matching people up.

The network creator can set any number of profile questions that act as tags for navigating, but there’s no real need to make that extensive. The network is driven more by people setting their conference schedule (what sessions am I seeing?) and self-identifying others that they’d like to meet. Crowdvine then helps keep track of where you’re most likely to run into those people.

Even better though, unlike EventVue and Pathable (as far as I can tell), Crowdvine offers a free cookie-cutter version of their service for anyone who’s running a small event and doesn’t want or need the robust full feature set.

I think this is a smart move for a company that has a chance to own a niche in the field when players like Ning are focusing on a larger space.

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