Built using the latest web technologies, the application is designed as web-based software that allows users to build high-quality websites that capture content generated during meetings, conferences and strategy sessions.

There is no software or plug-ins to download, beyond the most recent version of Flash, which, fortunately, comes installed in most major web browsers. Flash enables many interactive and video player services. It is offered by Adobe as a free download.

The tool works best using Mozilla Firefox.

More about MissingLink:

Navigating a MissingLink Event Archive
Get an overview of the navigation system: learn how to view images, zoom in and out and print.

Uploading Images
Learn how to upload images--whether photos of participants or flipcharts--and link them to agenda items.

Creating Your Own Events
Learn how to create a new website for your event, establish a title, create a description, establish dates and times.

Creating Breakout Groups
Create a "breakout pattern" for your event comprised of breakout topics, team names and locations.

MissingLink is used by professional facilitators, meeting planners, consultants, designers, community organizers, corporations, universities, medical centers and religious organizations.

The tool was created to organize and manage the facilitation of collaborative events and conferences.

 Our clients use MissingLink to make their jobs easier:

• publish photos and presentations;
• create agendas;
• create team lists for breakout sessions;
• email participants; and
• upload video and audio from their meetings.

The resulting web site gives users a secure, professional, easy-to-navigate database that allows participants access to the information created during the event.

Our goal in designing MissingLink was to provide a tool that serves as the fast track between ideas and implementation.

Our customers have used MissingLink to facilitate and publish events for such organizations as: Google, Johnson & Johnson, Ogilvy & Mather, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Wells Fargo.

Check out these publicly available public websites to see MissingLink in action:

	Pop!Tech 2006: Dangerous Ideas A one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas.
	Business Innovation Forum Participants include executives and organizational leaders (from both the public and private sectors) responsible for growth, strategy and innovation who want to explore the who, what, and how of business model innovation.
	Engage Pittsburgh 2006: Idea Round-Up At this one-day event, The Sprout Fund engaged creative young thinkers and regional leaders in a conversation that promotes new thinking about the topics that matter most to our community. Participants engaged in panel discussions and worked in small design groups to generate as many brain-busting ideas as possible.

MissingLink is a content management system designed to support meetings and facilitated events for individuals, businesses and non-profits.

The Solution

This browser-based software allows you to manage events; organize breakout teams; track participant profile information; and upload images, files, white boards, flip charts and audio-visual content--and organize your content according to the event agenda and keyword tags.

It is the easiest way to build high-quality, password-protected web documentation of the ideas, team members and presentations from conferences, meetings and strategy sessions.

• See public examples of conference sites built using MissingLink.
• Read what users say about their experience using MissingLink in their profession.
• Review more frequently asked questions.
  

MissingLink is designed to assist you in managing the many images, presentations and audio-visual files that may be associated with an event or conference--no matter how complex (see examples).

Upon upload, you can determine what part of the agenda they are associated with. You can also assign keyword tags to aid in searching for digital assets across multiple events.

To upload files:

1. Log in to your MissingLink website.
2. Select the event you want to upload to.
3. Select "Agenda & Documentation" view.
4. Chose an existing session or click "create a new session".
5. Click the red plus [+] signs to upload items.
   
6. Use the image upload dialog box to select multiple images to upload, assign tags and a desription.

VIDEOS can be MPEGs, Quicktime .mov or Flash video. You must first activate an AV package (see pricing) per each event. Learn more >>

IMAGES can be GIFs or JPEGs. For example, photos of people, flipcharts or whitewalls. Upon upload, thumbnails and rollovers with file names and descriptions are generated in the image index.

When images are uploaded, an Image Viewer page is generated attaching the tags, descriptions and allowing viewers to zoom in and out, view fullscreen, print or download.

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