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• Peace Corps

  

  The US Peace Corps is a government organization dedicated to promoting world peace and friendship through volunteering and service. In 2011, the Peace Corps used SCHED* to coordinate it's 18-month long, 50-year anniversary activities. The Peace Corps took advantage of SCHED*'s submission forms to allow it's 200,000+ alumni to submit events to event administrators for their review and publish on the public event schedule.

• Bumbershoot Music Festival

  

  Bumbershoot is a music, film and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington that attracts more than 150,000 attendees every year. They began using SCHED* in 2009 to manage all the content related to their schedule including event descriptions and venue lineups. Bumbershoot used SCHED*s music festival integration to provide full streaming songs for their performing artists. The SCHED* site increased website traffic 3x at its inception and provides thousands of attendees with an enhanced festival experience.

• American Association of Law Librarians

  

  The American Association of Law Librarians ("AALL") is an organization dedicated to promoting and assisting legal information professionals. The AALL has used SCHED* since 2009 to seamlessly integrate social networking into their 2,000+ member Annual Meeting & Conference. The AALL organizers placed particular importance on the ability of their attendees to filter their schedule of 340 events down to relevant conference tracks and proficiency levels.

• First Night Boston

  

  First Night is a New Year's Eve celebration showcasing Boston's cultural and artistic communities and features over 200 exhibitions and performances. The First Night Producers chose SCHED* to provide their attendees with an easy to use and intuitive mobile experience that was integrated with their website's schedule of events.

• San Diego Comic-Con

  
  Comic-Con began using SCHED* in 2010 as an additional tool to provide attendees with a personal agenda builder and a way to seamlessly integrate social networking into their events. The tool proved to be huge hit among attendees as evidenced by comments across social networks like, "SCHED* is making it unbelievably easy to plan this year!" and garnering headlines like "SCHED* slays Comic-Con Scheduling Chaos" from Wired Magazine. With 11,000+ attendees creating personal schedules, Comic-Con deemed the software a success and expanded its use to Wondercon.

• Anime Detour

  
  Jo Thomsen, the Programming Director for Anime Detour used SCHED* at CONvergence in 2009. Jo enjoyed using SCHED* at the other convention and decided to implement the customized, whitelabeled version of SCHED* to fit the look and feel for her 2010 event. She used SCHED* to add the complete schedule of events including panels, autographs and workshops. The implementation was a success and the committee decided to implement SCHED* again this year. 

• Lights.Camera.Help.

  

  Lights.Camera.Help. is a non-profit film festival held annually in Washington, D.C. The festival began using SCHED* in 2009 to help manage the online schedule of events and provide attendees with a mobile solution. In addition to being a valuable resource for attendees, Aaron Bramley, the Director & Co-Founder used SCHED* at each event, "...to tell myself when it was time to get up to speak and what films were coming next."

• Hollyshorts Film Festival

  

  Hollyshorts decided to use SCHED* after evaluating several options based on budget constraints. SCHED*'s solutions fit nicely within their price range and they found the software incredibly useful for film festivals. They used the ability to attach film poster images to the event schedule as a way to aid in film discovery. Since the organizers found SCHED* so simple and reliable, they turned schedule management duties over to a college intern who processed schedule updates with ease.

• Australian & New Zealand College of Anesthetists & Faculty of Pain Medicine ("ANZCA")

  

  The ANZCA organizers chose SCHED* for its superior presentation of schedule data and simple admin interface, allowing them complete control over their online and mobile content. They did not believe their attendees would use many of SCHED*'s social and personalization features but, to their surprise, 50-60% of attendees used the application and 20% of attendees created a personalized schedule. SCHED* proved such a success that the organizers are implementing SCHED* again for their upcoming Combined Scientific Meeting with The Hong Kong College of Anesthetists.

• Canadian Cardiovascular Congress ("CCC")
  
  

  

  After evaluating several vendors and testing the software, the CCC chose SCHED* for their 2010 annual meeting. The organizers found adding 430+ sessions to their site to be very simple. They exported their session data from their existing database and used the spreadsheet template to upload and manage their online schedule. The organizers took advantage of SCHED*'s multi-language capabilities by delivering the schedule in both English & French for their 3,800+ attendees.