Thoughts on conferences

Posted Nov 28, 2011 10:40 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: Thoughts on conferences by jengelh
Parent article: Thoughts on conferences

What about magnetic badges? If you don't know them: they consist of two parts: a metallic front, and a magnetic piece that goes below your shirt hand holds the front in place with friction.

(BTW, why the tinyurls? I like to know where URLs actually go, and am reluctant to give marketing data to a tinyurl provider.)

Thoughts on conferences

Posted Nov 28, 2011 11:57 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Magnetic badges were never offered so far, so can't tell. But the idea sounds promising. tinyurls: yeah I could have used html comment writing mode and do <a href="...">[1]</a>, though for some reason I did not consider that at that time. :-)

Thoughts on conferences

Posted Nov 28, 2011 12:48 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

At the end of the day you'll probably put your badge in your pocket, and at that point you'll suddenly discover that the magnets have helpfully wiped the hotel keycard that you left in there as well. Not that this has happened to me repeatedly, or anything.

Thoughts on conferences

Posted Dec 16, 2011 8:41 UTC (Fri) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link]

I like magnet badges the most. Whereas lanyards put your badge somewhere on the lower part of your belly and get in the way when bending over, magnet badges (or pins) allow you to put your name close to your face, so people can peek at your name without making it too obvious that they had to peek :-)

For someone who has trouble remembering names, but not faces, this would help a lot. Also make sure the names are printed in a font as big as possible. I prefer if the font stretches to fill the complete width. (Sure, some people will have a bigger font than others, but making all badges unreadable because of a few long names is silly at best.)