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A Green Light to a Dirty Dog
Having had a resurgence of interest in the Irish language lately, I found myself tuning in to Raidió na Life , an independent Irish-language…
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Team
Tito as Gaeilge
Last year, two key events stirred something in the Irish collective consciousness like nothing I’ve seen before: Kneecap , who rap in the Irish…
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Team
A new chapter
Down through the years, we’ve poked a bit of fun at companies who have written things like “opening our Irish office”, or “we’ve raised money”, or…
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Product
New feature: Bulk update existing attendees in Tito
We recently released a much-requested feature to Tito: the ability to update attendee details in bulk. Previously, attendee data could only be edited…
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Industry
Why we’re doubling down on personalisation
We’re noticing a trend towards specificity in the events running on Tito. Ten years ago, the big-ticket, multi-track Annual Technology Conference™ was…
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Team
Un-introducing IO
One of the rules of being a small team running a small business is: choose your battles. Last week, one of the most famous product designers in the…
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Team
What's new in IO?
It’s funny; we’ve got years of experience under our belts with Tito, yet launching IO has us feeling like a start-up again. It’s both scary and…
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Team
Who we are
I've held off writing on this blog in 2025 so far, mainly because I've been busy working on IO . Admittedly, it’s also because of the new US…
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Industry
An introduction to event-led content marketing
It feels like selling out an event is harder than it used to be. We want to help. Drawing on my master's in event management, years of event marketing…
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Industry
Self-care for event managers
14 years ago, I studied a masters in Event and Festival Management. I did my dissertation on employee engagement in the events sector, and guess what…
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Team
Closing out 2024
As another year draws to a close, it’s a good time to take the foot off the gas, reflect and take a breath. Here are a few things that are currently…
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Team
Tito at Smashing Meets Product Design
Last week, Paul and I were invited to speak at Smashing Conference’s Meets Product Design event. We were interviewed by infectiously energetic host…
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Team
Calm December Again
In 2020, after a year of much turmoil (what was that again?), we did something called “Calm December” at the end of the year. The gist was: No formal…
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Product
Why is Tito the best conference registration software?
Tito recently crossed a billion dollars worth of tickets sold (we’ll cross a billion euros in January), and along the way we’ve built a lot of…
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Team
Introducing IO
This time last year, I started a new experimental project to re-implement some core Tito features using some modern web development techniques. Soon…
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Product
New feature: Triggers for setting conditional questions
We’re constantly looking for ways to give event organisers more flexibility and control over the registration experience. Triggers allow you to…
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Industry
Is Tito (accidentally) the best event platform for Gen Z?
While browsing LinkedIn the other day a post caught my eye sharing a graphic comparing event-related preferences across Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z.…
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Team
How switching to Linear changed the way our team works
I won’t name and shame our previous project management software, but Paul loathed it. So much so that he sometimes just wouldn’t even use it. I…
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Product
New feature: Anonymise your event data
Today we’re introducing an update to support event organisers in meeting their data protection obligations more easily. At the bottom of the Settings…
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Team
One billion dollars
We don’t track all that many metrics at Tito, least of all vanity metrics. In fact, we don’t actually know when we crossed a billion dollars of…
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Team
A roundup of our "Meet Tito" dinners over the past few months
In September we put out a call to meet us in various cities, starting in Copenhagen when I visited to attend TechBBQ on the 10th September. What…
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Product
New feature: Restrict tickets to specific domains or email addresses
Organisers often ask us if they can specify domains and email addresses that can or can’t register for an event. The answer up to now has always been…
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Industry
Being an engineer means I can break things in my spare time too
Last Sunday morning I was emptying the ash from our wood pellet furnace — something I've done around 100 times. A small mistake It takes about 15…
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Product
Tito Changelog: July to September 2024
The bulk of our time on Tito the last couple of months has been spent working on a new feature to give organisers more fine-grain control over the…
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Industry
8 ways to make people want to sponsor your event
We recently put together a process for evaluating sponsorship opportunities as they arise. It contains a bunch of questions to ask ourselves, but…
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Industry
You should go to conferences
Sophie Koonin perfectly captures why it's so valuable to attend conferences in her recent blog post , which we discovered courtesy of the beyond…
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Team
Meet Tito in a city near you
We’re trying something new this autumn season: Doc, I, and some of the team will be at various events over the coming months and we’re organising…
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Team
Flirting with the spammy side
It’s fair to say we’ve never been particularly good at “growth” here at Team Tito. Growth, that is, from the economic perspective: revenue, revenue,…
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Team
Nine Years of Team Tito
Doc and I received the certificate of incorporation for Team Tito Limited on the 11th August 2015, a few months before moving in to a new office, and…
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Team
This Last This Next Thing
Last month, I co-hosted This Next Thing , the second iteration of an event that started last year. I really love the concept of the event, and I'd…
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Team
Product managing my house renovation
In May, after five months of back and forth with builders, electricians, plumbers, fitters and decorators, our new house was finally ready to move…
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Product
Tito Changelog: April to June 2024
The main highlight from this quarter is our new beta Activity Groups feature, which is perfect for allowing attendees to select from different…
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Product
Invites now automatically added to attendee's calendars
Here's a small but mighty quality-of-life improvement to make sure attendees don't miss the calendar file. Now, where available, the ICS file will be…
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Team
RTFM vs Learning by Doing
I often write help articles for our apps but, even as I’m doing it, I hope most users won’t need to refer to them. The goal is for our software to be…
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Product
Set a custom invoice label
It's been requested many times by organisers to be able to override the default "Receipt" title. Now you can rename it Invoice, Statement, or whatever…
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Product
Metadata and Stripe
Did you know you can store metadata with each order on Tito? There are a few different ways of doing that: Type it in manually in our UI Pass it in as…
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Product
Design challenge: Date ranges
Simple to start Date ranges are one of those simple things that get more complicated the more you dig into them. Let’s start simple: 1:00pm, April…
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Product
New feature: Let attendees select from optional activities like workshops
We've heard many times that folks would love to be able to add workshops and other options to tickets for attendees to choose from. Starting today,…
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Team
You can't force people to have fun
Every Monday we have a whole-team Zoom call where we catch up on what’s going on with the business. The last one didn't go that well… I usually chair…
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Product
New feature: Limit tickets to one per unique email address
We've just released a beta feature allowing organisers to limit tickets to one per email address. Folks can still buy multiple tickets, but with this…
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Product
Tito Changelog: January to March 2024
Highlights from this quarter include the introduction of annual plans for a 15% saving on ticket fees, automatic reminders for unpaid invoices, and a…
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Product
Design challenge: Simplicity vs preferences
I think this is a pretty common scenario that we find ourselves continuously battling. You start off with a nice, simple, easy to understand…
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Product
Automated invoice reminders
Tito can now send automated reminders to folks with unpaid invoices . Just another way we're trying to save organisers a bit of time every day! Read…
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Team
100% customer satisfaction without a customer support team
We don't have a separate support team. Rather, everyone in the company takes turns to be on support duty. It works well; our users benefit by getting…
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Industry
Tito widget example: All Flows
All Flows once again have a really nice implementation of the Tito widget.
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Team
Save 15% on Tito fees with an annual plan
I want to wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year and thank you so much for using Tito. 2023 was an exciting year! Tito saw a bunch of…
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Product
New feature: Account level attendee export
We've just deployed a new feature that allows you to export attendees from all events on your account in one go. Once you have the data in your…
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Product
Badge printing made easy with our Badgy integration
Badgy is an app that does on-site badge label printing and lead capture without any fuss. It's built by the team at 8bytes and we've partnered with…
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Industry
Tito widget example: React Summit
We're really digging how React Summit has styled up the Tito widget here ! 😍
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Product
Tito Changelog: July to September 2023
September Dashboard Don't crash connecting Stripe if Apple Pay is not supported e.g. in India Update the event homepage banner help text to better…
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Product
Improvements to Test Mode
We've always allowed you to put through test orders on your event so you can check that everything is set up exactly how you want. We also allow you…
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Tito Changelog: April to June 2023
June Dashboard Add more fields to registration custom export Add opt-in custom export Add unpaid income note on daily digest email Bring in the stats…
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Product
A new widget for listing all your events
"Does your widget have a way to list all events, rather than tickets per event?" 8 years and 3 days ago someone asked us that. “Unfortunately not” was…
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Product
We've redesigned Tito's event homepages!
tl;dr we’re updating the design of our event pages! Over the last few months we’ve been working behind the scenes to port the remaining parts of our…
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Product
Extra payment options with Stripe (Klarna, Affirm & more)
Tito currently allows attendees to pay for their tickets using credit or debit card (via Stripe), by PayPal, or by invoice . We're introducing an…
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Product
New feature: Custom exports
Tito already allows you to download attendee and order data as a spreadsheet but that format might not be how you want it. Maybe there are too many…
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Product
New feature: vCards
It seems forever since we’ve announced a proper new feature. While we’ve been putting in a bunch of work on Tito, a lot of the changes and…
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Industry
Is this the perfect length of time for a conference talk?
After I posted a link to this post I'd written on LinkedIn , an old friend got in touch and asked me for feedback on an event he was creating. Without…
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Industry
How much to charge for online access to your conference
During the pandemic, we conducted a study to discover the average price of a ticket to an online tech conference. As you might expect, there was quite…
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Industry
Four things I would change about (nearly) every tech conference
As in-person conferences return, I thought I would write down a few things that I think would improve any event, particularly tech conferences. I've…
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Product
Salesforce x Tito: the hidden integration
About, oh, 9 years ago now, now-LinkedIn Influencer Richard King contacted me about hosting his companies events on Tito. Having added his events, he…
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Product
8 ways we've made our widget even better
I just wrote a technical post , about how I solved one of the last remaining problems facing our Widget V2. With that done, I thought I'd write a few…
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Team
From WordPress to … Vito
It’s a bit ironic that the last post on this blog was “ Some Investment News “, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that that spelled the end. But nay,…
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Product
Towards simpler payments: Tito will support Stripe and PayPal only from 30 June
Tito has evolved a lot as a product since our co-founder Paul wrote the first line of code on a Ryanair flight back in April 2011. (Woah, it’s been 10…
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Team
Some investment news.
Last year, after building the first release of Vito in 4 weeks, Lachy Groom got in touch and told us he would invest €1.25m to Tito. We said thank…
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Product
“The time between”
Like everyone for the past year, I’ve attended my fair share of online events. In my case, to my delight, most of them have been hosted on Vito, but…
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Team
Reminiscing under the mistletoe
During chaotic times, nostalgia and traditions can be a salve — and we could all do with some soothing energy right now! So we’re indulging in a bit…
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Product
Have Yourself A Merry Remote Christmas
This year we started work on Vito — a platform for running community-first online events. With December fast approaching, we’re thinking about how…
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Product
Prepare Your Presenters to Give Their Best Performances at Online Events
There’s no one way to host an event, whether that be in-person or in cyberspace. As such, there’s no one way to deliver a talk anymore, especially if…
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Product
Get Started with Live-Streaming for Online Events
Just as there are plenty of different ways to record video from the comfort of your home , so too are there plenty of ways to get started with…
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Industry
Virtual Event Engagement: 6 Steps to Help Nurture Your Community Online
Earlier this year we were joined by three community experts for one of our own virtual events, Admission Online. They shared their personal stories of…
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Product
Adventures in Livestreaming: An app comparison
Back in March we began working on a new platform called Vito , for hosting events and communities online. Each event or community gets its own hub.…
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Team
Vito Design Principle #2: Design inclusively
Since defining our core values last year, we’ve been making continual efforts to ensure that they don’t simply become words on a marketing site, but…
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Industry
How Much are Organisers Charging for Virtual Events?
We’ve previously written about the different ways you can show value when selling tickets to your virtual events . What we didn’t cover however, was…
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Industry
Creating Next-Level Video Content at Home
With many events and communities moving online in response to the global pandemic, organisers and participants have suddenly found themselves having…
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Product
3 Ways to Use Tito With Zoom
With many in-person events moving online, we’re seeing an influx of requests for how to use Tito with video conferencing platforms, especially Zoom .…
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Industry
Virtual Event Pricing: 6 Options to Try Out
Putting a price on your experiences was hard enough even before events had to pivot online. Nowadays, there are so many ways you can package and…
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Team
Vito Design Principle #1: Centre community safety and security
In building Vito , a new platform for gathering online, we want to be intentional about baking our core values into the design process. For this…
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Industry
Adapting Your Code of Conduct for Virtual Events
You might have seen that we’ve been running our first fully-virtual series for event organisers, Admission Online, on our new platform, Vito. We’re…
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Team
Admission Online: From Event to Show, A Recap
The third in our new event series, Admission Online: From Event to Show, featured three speakers, over 100 participants, and, somehow, a ukulele and a…
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Team
Team Tito Blackout Statement
Recent events have highlighted again injustices that are upsetting and disturbing. Racism, and in particular anti-blackness, is a worldwide and…
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Team
Announcing our Speakers for Admission Online: From Event to Show
On May 26th, we’ll be delighted to bring you the latest installment in our new event series, Admission Online. For this edition, Admission Online:…
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Team
Admission Online 2: A Recap and Details About Our Next Event
Thank you. It’s been remarkable to see how many people enjoyed our second Admission Online event. Today we wanted to share a little bit about it for…
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Team
Admission Online: A Recap & What’s Next
Hello. If you’ve been keeping track of some of the changes Team Tito’s been working on over the past number of weeks, you might have noticed that we…
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Product
How to Bring Your Tito Events Online
In response to the need to offer your attendees virtual events during the Coronacrisis, we wanted to pass on some tips for customers who still want to…
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Team
Announcing Vito and Our Own Virtual Conference
Embracing change is top of mind for us right now. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the events industry has taken a seismic toll. However, responding to…
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Team
Answers to FAQs about the Tito Platform in Response to COVID-19
Today we wanted to share some guidelines around using Tito to facilitate changes to events that you’re running due to the effects of COVID-19. In this…
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Industry
Speaking of Speaking… [Podcast]
The people behind Dribbble , the website for discovering the world’s top designers and creatives, also host the Overtime podcast . One episode that…
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Industry
Creating a community out of turmoil
“I remember this particular time when we newly arrived into the system… you know when you don’t have anything to do and you don’t know anyone or…
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Industry
Women in Events: A Personal Account
There are plenty of accounts of what life is like for women in events. If you go looking, you’ll see the articles about how women in events make 22%…
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Industry
International Women’s Day: Inspiring Product Managers
Two years ago I joined Tito as Customer Experience Manager after having been a Tito customer myself for several years. At the start of 2020, I moved…
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Product
How to Effortlessly Manage Your Tito x Stripe Transactions
If you, like me, run an event using Tito you’ll no doubt be familiar with the daily deposit of Stripe payments into your accounting package of choice.…
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Product
Announcing the New Tito Dashboard
After several years in the making, we’re extremely excited to announce that our new version of Tito’s dashboard is being rolled out from today! In…
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Industry
Experience Design Trends
Cramer has recently published an updated article outlining some compelling experience design trends the industry is adopting to exceed audience…
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Industry
The Sustainable Event Buyer’s Guide
In one of their latest articles, Event Industry News have put together a sample of suggested improvements that individuals in the sector can make to…
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Industry
The Average Event Manager Salary in 2020 [New Data]
By analysing some 5,000+ reports from individuals in the industry, we’re here today to share the average event manager salary in 2020. Below you’ll…
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Industry
Hitting ‘Pause’ to Take 10 Steps Forward
Learn Inbound is one of the most highly anticipated marketing conferences on offer in Ireland. However, in this post , the conference’s organiser,…
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Team
Taking Responsibility for Our Hiring Process
It’s time to start hiring again at Tito. We don’t subscribe to a hyper-growth mentality, so we’re taking it slowly. I want to share a lesson from last…
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Industry
Tito ❤︎ Phrase [Case Study]
We recently caught up with our friends at Phrase to share our experience using their all-in-one, web-based localisation platform. Our CEO, Paul ,…
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Product
Incident Report, Sunday 19th January
On the morning of Sunday 19th January, several of our customers reported that events had disappeared from their Tito accounts. Independent of that,…
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Industry
131 Stage Design Ideas for 2020
The start of the year is the perfect time to get inspired. However, as we all know, events are multi-faceted and demanding, so it can be hard to find…
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Industry
Why Event Planners Need to Know about Active and Passive Data Collection
It’s easy to think that sending out a post-event survey is enough to gather the data you need to know about how your event went. And while, yes, it…
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Product
Quick Tricks #19: Set up a group discount
Quick Tricks is our series of posts to help you level up your Tito skills. In this article we’ll cover a creative use of discount codes. What? Set up…
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Team
Time to leave
Throughout this year and as part of our ongoing work to bring more structure and clarity to our company we have been implementing policies for some of…
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Industry
Tips for Great Survey Design
Audience feedback is one of the best ways to make sure that your events are continuously improving and delighting your audiences. However, not every…
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Industry
11 Events for Software Engineers in 2020
2020 is just around the corner. As such, we wanted to provide a last few event round-ups to give you the heads up on what’s on offer and where you…
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Industry
What Should Event Producers Ask Before Choosing a Venue?
Event organisers have a thousand questions rattling around their minds at any given time. Breaking it down a little, this article, originally posted…
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Industry
2019 Event Trends: How Did Our Predictions Hold Up?
I’ve always been skeptical of people who claim to be able to predict the future. That said, I’m a marketer, meaning I make a living by iterating on…
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Industry
Tips for Public Speaking – speaking.io
Zach Holman self-describes as someone who’s spoken at more technical conferences than anyone else on the planet, aside from those who’ve spoken at…
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Industry
4 Ways to Track Event Success Beyond Tickets Sold
Event success can simply mean that your event runs a profit. After all the work that goes into them, this is something that every organiser should of…
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Team
Putting Core Values into Action
In Traction , Gino Wickman pulls the following Southwest Airlines anecdote In the company’s book […] is a story about a woman who sent Southwest a…
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Industry
Are You Ready to Host a User Conference? 5 Ways to Tell the Time Is Right
Writing for Entrepreneur, Don Mal, CEO of Vena Solutions has put together a pretty decent framework for potential organisers to tell if they, or…
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Industry
How to Work with Your Conference Speakers Effectively
Conference speakers are the backbone of every event. They provide the content, their names provide intrigue, and their profiles can help boost your…
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Industry
What I’ve Learned About Networking from 30 Years of Conferences
Finding a tip article like this that only provides ideas you’ve never thought of before is becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence, but here we are.…
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Industry
The 2020 Tech Festivals You Need to Know About
What’s better than getting together with a group of your peers to talk shop and make new connections? Doing it at a full-blown festival. There are…
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Industry
Twitter for Events: Advice from 2 Hosts & 13 Post Ideas
If you’re new to this series , we’ve spent the last few months discussing sales and marketing best practices with some of our favourite customers. One…
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Team
Designing with Empathy: Don’t
One of the things I love about working with Kim in our leadership coaching sessions is how an innocuous discussion can lead to my brain being turned…
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Industry
What It Will Take to Improve Diversity at Conferences?
“ One study found 69% of professional speakers globally are male. However, less attention has been paid to how too many events also lack racial…
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Product
Quick Tricks #18: Anatomy of an awesome banner (with examples)
Today’s Quick Trick is a bit different — in addition to learning how to do something in Tito, we’re going to be taking inspiration from some real-life…
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Industry
Survey Sheds Light on Event Industry Food Waste
I love a free pastry as much as the next person, and I hate a wasted pastry as much as them too. All croissant tomfoolery aside, today we’re sharing a…
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Industry
9 Quality Events for Developers in 2020
2019 and the twenty-tens are both coming to a rapid close. As well as the lists of the Best Everythings of the Decade we can expect in the coming…
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Team
The Value of Delight
The third core value that we discovered with Kim’s help is Delight . Delight as a value is interesting to me because it depends on the others, but to…
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Industry
Fear is Healthier than Ego: The Right Steps to Ensure Event Safety
“Only 53% of event planners actually have an emergency plan in place.” In an interview with Endless Events, Lori Pugh Marcum, manager of global…
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Product
Quick Tricks #17: Set a custom invoice number format
Quick Tricks is our series of tips to help you get the most out of using Tito . This week’s tip is for organisers who want greater control over their…
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Industry
Simple Ways to Engage Your Target Audience for Events
As the first in a series we’ve been working on for some months for conference organisers, we thought a lot about what first step in their promotion…
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Industry
The State of Demographics in Call for Speakers in Tech in 2019
The transparency of JSConf EU is such that you simultaneously want to applaud everything they publish and send it to everyone else to tell them to do…
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Industry
7 UX Events in 2019 & 2020 You Should Know About
User experience is taken for granted by a lot of people until they notice that something is out of place, unexpected, or dysfunctional. For every…
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Industry
Is Tito a good alternative to Meetup?
You may have heard that Meetup recently announced they’ll be testing a new pricing model with some groups. The changes will see organiser subscription…
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Team
The Value of Excellence
Following on from Integrity , the second of Tito’s core values that we discovered with Kim’s help is Excellence It’s really hard to talk about…
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Industry
Gender Inclusive Tech Events: A hands-on how-to guide
“Some people are not women . We can agree on that, I think. And you want them to come to your events, work at your company, speak at your conference,…
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Product
Quick Tricks #16: Change someone’s ticket type
Welcome to Quick Tricks, our fortnightly series of tips for Tito users. Today’s one might be the quickest yet… What? Learn how to change someone’s…
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Industry
Introducing a Series on Sales & Marketing for Conferences
As of this sentence, I’ve begun writing my 261st blog post for Tito . Given my role here, that number has racked up quite quickly. That’s because I…
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Industry
MYWorld 2030 Event Industry Survey
Generally speaking, the MYWorld 2030 survey is a global citizen survey about global sustainable development goals. The aim is to bring people’s voices…
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Industry
4 Progressive Design Events to Get to Before 2019 Ends
There are so many reasons to attend events in your industry. From networking, to getting face time with experts who’ll be presenting, to broadening…
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Industry
Put participants first in conference design
“Picture this: it’s 7:30 a.m., and conference participants are barely awake. Coffee in hand, they blink sleep away as they enter the room. Rows of…
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Industry
20 Useful Resources for Building Accessible Events
Going to events isn’t as easy for some people as it is for others. Accessibility at conferences and events is something that’s finally getting some…
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Industry
Top 5 Corporate Event Trends for 2019
It’s pretty refreshing to find an article about trends that admits “not everyone thinks it’s wise to follow trends.” I’ll also sprinkle that pinch of…
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Industry
13 Sites to Source Quality Conference Guest Speakers
Sourcing conference guest speakers can be quite the challenge, especially if you’re trying to reach out to as diverse a pool of potential presenters…
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Industry
A Reparative List For Your Male-Dominated Design Conference
Male-dominated design events are not just exclusionary: they cannot properly represent the full scope and power of design through the people who work…
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Product
Quick Tricks #15: Reveal how many tickets are left
If you’re new to Quick Tricks, this is our series of speedy tips to help you become a Tito power user. Today’s trick highlights a nifty option you may…
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Team
An Insider Look at Tito’s Customer Support
On Doc’s recommendation, I recently read REWORK — the best-selling business playbook from Basecamp . (I know, I’m like nine years late on the uptake).…
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Industry
Q&A: What The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention Means for Event Marketers
So much thought goes into events in their build up, and so much work goes into controlling all the spinning plates on the day that it can be hard for…
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Industry
5 Accessibility and Inclusion Events in 2019 & 2020
1) #culturecake Culture Cake is a non-profit conference due to take place on September 28th in Porto, Portugal. The organisers hope that it’ll provide…
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Industry
Event Engagement: How to Get Attendees Excited About Complex Concepts
“Event engagement” is the holy grail two word sentiment for most organisers. However, it comes with a few complications. For one, it’s a bit…
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Team
The Value of Integrity
Our first implicit exercise exploring core values happened about 8 months before working with Kim who helped us to be explicit about it. I put the…
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Industry
10 Signs Event Planning is Burning You Out
There are a few tell-tale signs of burnout, but because event planning is known to be such a stressful profession, too often people in the industry…
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Product
Quick Tricks #14: Add a table using Markdown
Quick Tricks is our fortnightly series of posts to help you level up your Tito skills. In this post you’ll learn how to leverage the power of Markdown…
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Team
Working from Home Tips From 3 Full-Time Remote Workers
30% of the Tito team works remotely full-time — two of us in Scotland and one of us (me) on the English south coast. This figure stood at 40% before…
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Industry
Things Experienced Speakers Wish They’d Known: Tips for First-Time Conference Speakers
I know this post is aimed at first time speakers, as was the original tweet that sparked the conversation behind it, but there are so many pearls of…
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Industry
6 Events for Business Owners in 2019 & 2020
Starting your own business and scaling that business are two of the most intimidating and rewarding activities you can get into in your professional…
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Product
PSD2 & SCA: Updates in Tito and a Brief Overview
Tito is currently working on an update to our checkout and will be rolling it out in advance of the 14th September SCA deadline. We’ll notify all…
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Team
Defining our Core Values
I wrote recently about hiring Kim for Tech Leadership Coaching . For this post I thought I’d start diving into the details of what we’ve been working…
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Product
Quick Tricks #13: Add a schedule to your event homepage
If you’re new to Quick Tricks, welcome! This is our regular series where we show you how to do something cool and/or a bit hidden in Tito . Today…
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Industry
With Conference Success Comes Burnout
From 2015 to 2019 Mark Scully’s Learn Inbound conferences have had continuous year on year growth. Before his conference, there were no world-class…
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“Help! someone has pointed out my conference has diversity issues! How do I fix this?”
Ada Rose Cannon is a developer advocate at Samsung. She’s also co-chair of the W3C Immersive Web Working Group. Adding another string to that…
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Industry
eCommerce Events 2019: 5 Top Options to Boost Business
Even glancing at them, the numbers associated with the ecommerce industry are truly astounding. eCommerce sales are expected to account for 13.7% of…
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Team
Why I Want Kim’s Help
Early this year, we hired Kim Crayton as a business coach. Two weeks ago, Doc talked about our first steps . I thought I would share my perspective on…
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5 Tips to Turn Your Conference Talk into a Networking Opportunity
Preparing to stand on a stage to talk about yourself, your work, and the accomplishments you’re proud of is one of the most jarring professional…
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Product
Quick Tricks #12: Using Donation Tickets
Every fortnight we share a Quick Trick to help you level up your Tito game. Today, we’ll be covering donation tickets. What? Today we’ll show you how…
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Industry
On Finding the Words to Promote an Event
Logistics tend to take all the energy in event planning. Of course they are an important element, but not when they take all the focus. The copy you…
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Industry
15 Simple yet Powerful Tips to Fix Your Q&A Session
Event organisers, in my experience, are exceptionally good at dealing with finer details. That might take the form of making sure the lights in a…
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Industry
Finance Conferences & Events: 7 Options for 2019
The world of finance is a dizzying world of change, and never more so than in 2019. One great opportunity for staying up to date with the…
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Industry
The Ins & Outs of JS Conf EU’s Scholarship Programme
I recently had the pleasure of having a conversation with the organiser of the JSConf EU scholarship programme, Simone Haas . Along with some…
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Team
Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Tito has grown from four to ten people in the last couple of years which is something I’m very proud of and humbled by. But when you look at our About…
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Industry
How to Transform Your Next Conference Takeaways into Real-Life Results
Information overload is really real. Conferences are a single day or couple of days that are designed to cram information (and those who crave it) in…
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Product
Quick Tricks #11: Add custom messages to tickets
Quick Tricks is our series of tips you can action in minutes to improve your event experience for attendees. What? In this post we’ll show you how…
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Why you should create a Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color in Tech (BIPoCiT) Space at your next event
Being one of our founding customers , JSConf EU and its companion event CSSConf EU have always been close to our hearts here at Tito. They have always…
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Industry
Ultimate Checklist for Conference MCs
If you’ve been keeping up to date with the articles we’ve put out in the last few weeks, you might be familiar with a post I recently published about…
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Industry
7 AI Conferences That Should Be On Your Radar
Before we get into the AI conferences, it’s worth having a think about what AI means to us. Artificial intelligence has spent a long time as something…
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Product
From Tito Support: 10 Helpful Answers for Your FAQs
Maybe I’m weird, but I love being on Tito support duty. Part of that is down to the fact that we have a lot of really lovely customers who I enjoy…
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Industry
Event Names: Tactics, Tools, and Ideas Worth Stealing
Finding a great name begins by understanding what your event is about, what you’re trying to accomplish with this event, and why your event is…
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Product
Quick Tricks #10: How to export QR codes
Quick Tricks is our fortnightly series where we show you how to do something a bit “next-level” in Tito. This week, we’ll be focusing on how to export…
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Industry
How to Get Media Coverage For an Event
If you’re trying to get the word out, you need to drill into what the value of your event is. Especially if you’re going to be pitching to get media…
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Industry
How Salesforce Got Its Developer Conference Right While Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google Lost Their Way
In the tech conference circuit, the names WWDC, I/O, and F8 mean a lot, but do they mean as much as they used to? Writing for ZD Net, Bill Detwiler…
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Industry
2020 Design Events to Help You Get Ahead of the Game
It seems that, every year, new options pop up for designers to upskill and meet their peers. It can be hard to keep track of all of the choices, and…
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Industry
How Not to Treat Guest Speakers at Your Conferences
As I write this, I’m just off the stage after finishing a guest speaking slot at a conference that I enjoyed. I felt welcomed, had space, knew where I…
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Team
Developing Tito with Paul Campbell [Shop Talk Show Podcast]
If you’re not familiar with the Shop Talk Show , it’s an internet radio show, about the internet! This episode , from June 2019, features Tito…
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Industry
When You Feel the Pressure
In case you’re not familiar with Marc Thiele, he runs beyond tellerand , a conference that takes place at multiple times of the year, across multiple…
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Product
Quick Tricks #9: Personalise your messages using variables
Welcome to another Quick Tricks post! In this fortnightly series we show you quick, actionable tips to raise your Tito game. What? In this post you’ll…
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Industry
Event Listing Sites: 12 (Decent) Places to Share Your Event
Please ignore anyone that gives you the advice that “No publicity is bad publicity.” Though you’ve probably come here based on the title, and though…
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Industry
How to Build an Inclusive Conference with Saron Yitbarek [Podcast]
In this, the 687th episode of The Hanselminutes Podcast (hosted by Scott Hanselman ) Saron Yitbarek shares what it takes to build a truly inclusive…
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Industry
TOA Berlin Satellite Events to Add to Your List
The TOA Berlin satellite events on offer this year embody the conference’s founding principal. That is, that tech now touches every aspect of the way…
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Industry
8 Areas to Work on If You Want to Create Inclusive Events
To my mind, there are two types of events. 1) Events that create a community and 2) events created by communities. I recently sat down with Vicky…
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Team
Admission 2018: Kim Crayton
If you’ve not heard of Kim , that’s about to change. She is a business strategist, educator, consultant, writer, podcaster, public speaker, mentor,…
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Industry
More, more and more: How the events industry got it all wrong
More ticket options. More speakers. More keynotes. More panels. More technology. More social media accounts. More food. More drinks. Because more is…
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Product
Quick Tricks #8: Creative use of emoji in your event homepage
Today’s Quick Trick post is a little different. Rather than showing you something you didn’t know you could do in Tito, the aim of today’s post is to…
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Industry
My 8 Tips for Minimising Event Stress (from 10 Years’ Planning)
Maria, my lovely colleague, gave me the brief for this post as she thinks that I seem very calm when planning events , at least from the outside! On…
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Industry
An emotional adventure
An honest appraisal of the highs and lows of bringing back a design conference after a six year hiatus. Also, I think we were guilty of believing our…
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Industry
A Round-Up of the 2019 WWDC Satellite Events
At Tito, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the passionate experts behind some of the best WWDC satellite events around. They’ve shared…
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Industry
Eco-Friendly Freebies: 11 Ideas for Sustainable Swag
The promotional products industry is worth roughly $24B . It’s hard to estimate the amount of plastic, food, and general waste that comes specifically…
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Product
Video: Getting Started with Tito
In our continuing video tutorial series, Vicky gives us a quick intro to getting an event live from scratch. She covers the basics: Signing up for…
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Industry
Forget 2018, or Even 2019 – What Will Events Look Like in 2029?
Saying you can predict what’s going to happen in 10 years is, at best, sorcery, and at worst, a scam. Many outlets share their speculations about the…
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Product
Quick Tricks #7: Pre-filling the quantity
Quick Tricks is a series of fortnightly tips for how to use Tito like a pro, that will have you saying “I didn’t realise I could do that in Tito…”…
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Industry
What Tech Events Want
In 2018, 20+ tech events were brought together in the same room by Startup Sesame at their annual kick-off. Their goal was to discuss the most…
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Product
Two-Factor Authentication is Here
It is time to take off your tin-foil hats as Two-Factor Authentication has come to Tito. Our mission at Tito is to create a delightful event…
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Industry
Podcast: Our CEO Paul joins the TalkScript crew to discuss our past, present and future app architecture
In this episode, Bryan, Paul and Nick chat with Tito’s co-founder and CEO, Paul Campbell. The team discusses Tito and its architecture, from its early…
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Industry
Why You Should Add Delight As a Pillar of Your Event Journey
Every event has food at it. Be it a breakfast snack or a towering, shaky sandwich filled with expensive ingredients constructed to personify VC-funded…
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Industry
Tech Events Aren’t Fun Anymore
“ These developer conferences are still full of innovation, but that sense of experimentation — the risk factor, the ‘look what we just did’ — is…
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Product
Quick Tricks #6: Add images to your homepage
Today’s Quick Tricks post offers another handy tip you can implement in seconds to make your event page more compelling. What? Learn how to zhuzh up…
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Industry
Event Video: Expert Tips & Stats on Pricing, Promo, and Production
Recently I got the chance to sit down with Anthony Allen, president of ACA Video . Anthony has over 15 years of experience in the multimedia world. He…
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Industry
Transitioning to Corporate Event Planning
Most people I’ve spoken to about getting started hosting conferences have said that they got there “by accident”. Here, Darren W. Johnson (founder of…
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Industry
7 Python Conference Options for Sssavvy Developers
I apologise for the snake joke but if I hadn’t included it, I risked showing a lack of backbone. Over the last 15 years, the popularity of Python has…
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Industry
Why Early-Stage Startups Should Sponsor Hackathons
Between product feedback and meeting with the community directly, Hackathons help developers and their sponsors alike. This is particularly effective…
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Product
Quick Tricks #5: Set a custom close link
We have another Quick Tricks post for you today, featuring an easy tip for how to raise your Tito game. What? Today you’ll learn how to redirect users…
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Product
How to Run Ticket Promotions Using Tito (And the Best Kinds to Use)
In an ideal world selling tickets is a very simple process. Decide a price, put the tickets on sale, and watch as hundreds of people buy them. Sure,…
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Industry
40 conferences a year with Sara Vieira
Sara Vieira is a developer advocate at YLD.io. As anyone who’s hosted, attended, or spoken at conferences professionally will tell you, conference…
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Industry
2019 JavaScript Conferences: 9 Top-Quality Options
With JavaScript, you can build memory games , dynamic data visualisations , and explosions , to name but a few use cases. A lot of these are the brain…
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Industry
This Workshop Will Change Your (Event) Life
Last month we hosted a workshop called “Become a Tito Power User”. Vicky , our CX Lead, shared her expertise on all things Tito. This was a test event…
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Industry
TechBBQ is one of Copenhagen’s biggest tech events, and it really did start with meat on a grill
Ever been to a BBQ with 6,000 other people? Maybe, if you’ve been to TechBBQ , though it didn’t start out like that. In 2012, five Danish…
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Product
Quick Tricks #4: Formatting the ticket description
Hello again! Time for another in our Quick Tricks series, where we show you a swift and nifty way to improve your Tito event. What? Today you’ll learn…
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Industry
12 of the Best Event Sponsorship Proposal Examples to Inspire Yours
According to EventMB , finding sponsors is the second biggest logistical challenge when it comes to organising events. Providing useful information as…
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Industry
The Top Conferences for Mac and iOS Professionals in 2019
Finding the right conference to go to can be hard. Even if you have a specialism, there are an overwhelming number of options on offer nowadays, and…
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Industry
5 Business Events for 2019 (That Aren’t Stuffy or Boring)
We’ve talked business events on this blog before, but we think it’s high time we shared an update. We’re 25% of the way through 2019 (?) and plenty…
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Industry
30 Different Productivity Tools Over 30 Days (With My Honest Opinions) | Week 4
For parts one, two, and three of this productivity tools list and their corresponding reviews, please see here , here , and here . If this is your…
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Industry
Podcast: CEO of Tito describes the fickle relationship between integrity and success
Event Industry News is is an online magazine that provides the latest news, views and reviews of the events industry. Recently, our CEO, Paul, spoke…
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Product
Quick Tricks #3: Turn the quantity field into a checkbox
Time for another edition of Quick Tricks: our series of short, actionable tips for things you might not know you can do in Tito! What? We’re going to…
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Team
What Does My Period Have to do With Work?
Tito recently introduced Period Days at work—an optional, but encouraged, extra paid day off each month for when you’re on your period. We’re not the…
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Industry
A Global Events Industry Report from the International Live Events Association
Every once in a while event organisers, amid the hectic schedules their roles require, come together at events that focus on them for a change.…
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Industry
2020 Tech Events You Should Be Looking Into (Yes, We Know It’s Early)
It takes a long time to plan a tech conference, but it takes a long time to choose which tech events to attend, too. Conference organisers are…
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Industry
Improving the tech event experience for marginalised people
This post starts with a caveat: there is no one-size-fits-all solution to making your tech event more inclusive to all marginalised people. There are…
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Product
We’d love to have you at our inaugural workshop!
We have a beautiful product that makes organising an event easy. We take a lot of pride in what we do because we care about giving organisers and…
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Product
Tito Activities Explained (Finally!) – With Video
Activities is one of the most powerful features of Tito. And one of the most misunderstood… Generally when we explain our Activities feature to…
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Industry
New Research: Men & Women Navigate B2B Exhibitions Differently
A distilled version of the C enter for Exhibition Industry Research Gender Differences and Similarities report was recently published by Kaylee…
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Industry
There are 3 Inspirational Women We Need to Tell You About
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people. – Diane Sawyer…
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Industry
Testing 30 Productivity Tools in 30 Days | Week 3
For weeks one and two of this little experiment, you can go here and here respectively. As the headline or a previous installment of this series might…
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Industry
This Talk Sucks! Solutions for Improving the Quality of Talks at Conferences
Through a combination of survey results, industry experience and a no-bullshit approach to explaining problems and solutions, Sam Marsden recently…
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Product
Quick Tricks #2: Displaying a selection of tickets
Welcome back to Quick Tricks , a fortnightly series of posts sharing an actionable tip for how do something fun (and a little bit secret) in Tito. ?…
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Product
How to Embed the Tito widget in your Squarespace website
Increasingly, small to medium businesses are opting for website builders and hosted solutions like Squarespace to create sites on the fly. According…
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Industry
30 Different Productivity Tools for Event Organisers (Part 2)
If you missed last week’s post, you might like to know where this list came from. I spent 30 days trying 30 different productivity tools to give you…
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Industry
What exactly do developer advocates do?
We’ve previously spoken to a Developer Advocate (namely, Chloe Condon ) for this very blog. But, at that time, we wanted to hear what she had to say…
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Industry
I Tried 30 Different Productivity Tools for 30 Days So You Can Use the Best Ones
Event organisers will never have enough time. If there’s one universal fact I’ve learned across every conversation I’ve had with Tito customers, in…
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Industry
I helped host 40 coding events last year. Here’s what I learned.
Florin Nitu runs a freeCodeCamp in Brasov, Romania. At the time of his writing the post below, they’d just hosted their 40th event (and, as such, we’d…
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Product
Quick Tricks #1: Embedding video in your event homepage
Welcome to the first in our Quick Tricks series! Every two weeks we’ll share a quick tip on how do something cool or a little bit hidden in Tito. Each…
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Industry
A 9-Part Competitive Analysis Framework for Event Organisers
One of the biggest wastes of energy in modern business is being jealous of your competitors’ success. In this post, I want to explore different ways…
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Industry
Using a Genetic Algorithm to Optimize Developer Conference Schedules
Everything about organizing an event is hard. Finding speakers, estimating attendance, securing a venue, scheduling , letting people know about the…
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Industry
Startup Events 2019: 7 Opportunities to Help Grow Your Business
Building a startup can be daunting, and the time founders spend on the responsibilities associated with that can make it hard for them to connect with…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Sandra Persing
As the penultimate speaker at Admission , we were very grateful to hear from the Global Strategist for Developer Outreach at Mozilla , Sandra Persing…
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Industry
4 Types of Video All Conferences Need
Will Curran from Endless Events is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to all things AV. As even more of a god-send, his specialty is (as the…
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Industry
Ruby Conferences 2019: 6 Quality Options for Rubyists & the Ruby-Curious
People call Ruby a beautiful, artful language and, with such high praise, it’s easy to see why its enthusiasts love to meet in person to discuss its…
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Industry
Running an Event for Technologists, as Illustrated Through 23 Gifs
It’s the last Wednesday in January and, for some folks, that means that they’re at the end of their most stressful 1/12th of the year. The world of…
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Industry
How to prepare and write a tech conference talk
Lena Reinhard likes raspberries, beautiful light, and good landscapes. She also loves public speaking and is an introvert. Though this might seem like…
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Industry
Cyber Security Conferences 2019: 5 Options to Help Reinforce Your Strategy
Cyber Security has been a topic of national, international and personal interest for some time now, meaning it’s no surprise that we’ve seen an…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Caitlin Teed
The electricity went out in the whole city at the conference Caitlin Teed was helping to host. There are few things more stressful than eager…
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Industry
The JSConf EU & CSSConf EU Finances
At Tito, we’re big fans of transparency. As probably the most sensitive subject when it comes to hosting events, a lot of organisers can find…
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Industry
Marketing Events 2019: New opportunities to unravel this year’s trends
It can be hard to keep up sometimes. Paradigm shifts like the transition from traditional marketing to online-first were easier. Nowadays, every day…
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Industry
15 Organizations That Sponsor Developer Events
The calendars of people in events are anything but average, but January remains a universal time to refocus, prioritise, and not panic. If you’re the…
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Industry
Favourite Tools of the Year, An Eventicons Podcast
Any podcast that’s been going for 145 episodes immediately sparks curiosity in me. Usually, if there’s that much of a commitment, there must be a…
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Industry
4 Events in January 2019 to Interest Even the Most Niche Technologist
New year, new ambitions, new people to meet, and places to see. Some people feel like January lasts as long as three months. Between the come-down…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Jane Kwett
You don’t need me to tell you that hosting events is a great way for companies to build a community, engage and delight it. Too often, when we get…
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Industry
The Best UX and Design Conferences in 2019 – The Definitive Guide
Getting the UX Collective newsletter to my inbox is one of my favourite parts of the week. Given the nature of UX and design, it’s inevitably pretty,…
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Industry
Developer Events in 2019: Some Options to Kickstart Your Year
After close to 40 different event round-ups this year, this will be the last of 2018. (Which I originally typed as “2019” so you know it’s getting…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Hugh Forrest
I was wondering recently about how long people stick it out on the events circuit. That is, organisers specifically. Don’t get me wrong, the thrill…
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Industry
Advent of Code
Yes, yes, yes, we’re 17 days into it, but Advent is here, and Christmas is nearly here. To mark the holiday, here’s an advent calendar full of short…
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Industry
Event FAQs: A 14-part run down of the most common questions
As the year comes to a close, I think we’re all a little tired. Committing yourself to a new task or project becomes so much harder as the daylight…
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Product
Data Collection Methods: Embrace the Power of Minimalism
One of the first things new Tito customers notice is that our checkout flow is different to a lot of other ticketing platforms. We’ve always believed…
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Industry
This Is What Happened When Fear Showed Up At My Conference
This post won’t tell you how to sell out your tickets or get funding. Nor will it tell you how to mingle, or the jokes to tell to make strangers like…
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Industry
Our Most Popular Event Blog Posts of 2018
In 2018 we’ve posted 54% more blog posts than in 2017. However, we didn’t go into the planning and production process with a quantity goal in mind.…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Bryony Gomez-Palacio
When I first had a chance to get to know Bryony , I noticed a couple of things. One, she gets straight to the point. Two, anything she does, she does…
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Industry
Does Your Design Conference Suck?
Bonnie Abbot asks hard questions and gives honest answers. She’s organised conferences, attended them, and found both endeavours wanting, but also…
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Industry
5 Business Events Providing Networking & Growth Opportunities in 2019
When I think of business events, I hear the roar of coffee machines, see people exiting conversations by saying, “Sorry, I’ve got to take this,” and I…
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Industry
Sketchnotes for Beginners: My 1st Time & Tips for Being Better Than Me
I’ve not always been in events, but since I’ve been working at Tito , one of the notions that thrills me about the industry is the idea of creating a…
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Industry
42 Tips For Producing A Memorable Small Business Event
I’m always a little wary of business advice articles that promise quick wins or tips. I get more wary with each number the writer adds to the title,…
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Industry
5 Marketing Events that are Genuinely Worth Attending in 2019
Marketing changes pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss an important SEO update. – Not Ferris Bueller Going…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Jessie Char
Events are wonderful places where you can experience your industry in a vibrant, multi-faceted way. Unfortunately, no one can attend every single one.…
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Industry
2019 Design Events: 7 Recommended Options to Suit Every Skill Set
The promise of design events, if you go looking for it, is often thought about in the same way. If you attend, you’ll get to be “inspired”, to…
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Industry
What High-Scale Startups Want From Trade Show Hosts – The Facts and Figures
Have you ever exercised in virtual reality? I have, but more in a watching-a-full-body-dumbbell-set-on-YouTube-while-eating-biscuits kind of way.…
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Industry
Let’s talk about harassment at events
CW: Harassment The post we’ve linked below refers to breaches of Code of Conduct at Learn Inbound and, in turn, references issues of harassment. Mark,…
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Facing Some Hard Truths After Attending #causeascene
A couple of weeks ago, myself, Paul and Doc were honoured to attend the #causeascene careers fair in London. Organised by Kim Crayton , the careers…
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Why WWDC Satellite Events Are Important for Apple and Its Fans
Every year Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ) draws 5,000 (mainly) developers to California. It’s so popular that a ticket lottery has…
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Industry
Conference Organiser’s Handbook
Upon finding this resource and deciding to share it on the Tito blog, I immediately Googled “German word for wishing you’d thought of it first.”…
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Industry
Learnings from Our First International Event Marketing Strategies
As Annie outlined in an earlier post on this blog, Admission became a smaller event than we’d originally planned, which became a success. For context,…
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Industry
Halloween and The History of How 9 Rituals Came to Be
Something that’s hard to understand can be frightening, but exploring what scares us often leads to our most rewarding discoveries. With that in mind,…
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Industry
3 of the Most Useful German Start Ups Event Organisers Should Know About
I recently had the fortune of winning a Women in Tech pass to Bits and Pretzels , a conference for founders held annually in Munich, Germany. One of…
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Industry
2019 International Conferences in the UK That Deserve Early Attention
There are a lot of eyes on the UK, and there’ll be even more in 2019. As I’m sure most of you will be aware, the (current) deadline for Brexit is…
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Industry
Event Management Tools I Loved (and Hated) During Admission
I work at a company that likes to try new tools. Tools that promise to make your job easier. I’ve worked in the tech industry for well over a decade…
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Industry
Let’s all cry at conferences
In a wonderfully honest portrayal of the high-octane emotional state we get in to when we come together at a conference and discuss all that goes into…
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Industry
What to Bring to a Conference (Or, what I forgot to pack. Twice.)
At the time of writing, I’ve been to two conferences in seven days. Therein I’ve had the pleasure of acting as both one of the hosts and one of the…
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Industry
Hiring a Speaker 101: How I Curated the Admission Line-Up
When Maria approached me about writing a post on how I secured the speakers for Admission I looked at her blanky, “There’s no way I can get 500 words…
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Industry
Homeless Fundraisers: Why Painting Over the Problem Doesn’t Work
Space is the most lucrative commodity in Dublin. For those of you who are not familiar with property in Ireland’s capital, here are some statistics:…
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Industry
I Spoke With a Zero Waste Contributor to See How She Would Run a Conference
Béa Johnson is one of the most famous faces in the zero waste community. She’s come to public attention over the past few years because of a jar. In…
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Team
Why Admission Downsized (And Why It Was a Good Thing)
Over the past five years or so it’s felt like everything has to be quantifiable to live. If the numbers don’t make sense, then you kill it. If you…
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Industry
I Attended an Oculus Conference in Virtual Reality, and All I Got Was Eyestrain
Could I get the same sense of excitement and social interaction that I’d normally get at one of these big tech events, without even having to go…
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Industry
Events for Women (That We’d Actually Enjoy Going to) | Oct/Nov ’18
It can be hard (and potentially ill-advised) to steer clear of all the bad news for women that’s out there. Furthermore, it can make it overwhelming…
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Team
Admission 2018: Some Key Quotes from Our Speakers and a Thank You
In September, we hosted our inaugural conference, Admission , in Chicago. We wanted to bring together event organisers in the hope of sparking…
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Industry
Attending a Conference Checklist: 17 Insights to Help You Get Ready For Any Conference
We all forget something when we go to conferences. Usually it’s a charger, or contact lenses, or a pair of comfortable shoes for the return journey,…
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Industry
Event Management Advice from the Woman Leading Patreon’s Events
Jane Kwett is the senior event marketing manager for Patreon. You might recognise her name from our post detailing why we’ve decided to host a…
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Industry
Creating an Inclusive Tech Scene | 5 Questions with Kim Crayton
Kim Crayton is a personal inspiration of mine. She enables businesses to strategise towards growth by embracing inclusion in a meaningful manner that…
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Industry
You’re Networking Wrong
Networking is a lot like dating. If you were seeking a spouse, you wouldn’t go up to a stranger in a bar and ask “Will you marry me?” Instead, you’d…
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Industry
Explaining Our Conference Code of Conduct for Admission
You can view our full code of conduct for Admission here . The first conference I attended was a global marketing event in the USA. I was a new…
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Industry
On Design Conferences & Creating Fulfilling Experiences | Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Bryony is half of the team that founded Under Consideration and their design conference, Brand New. Both roles involve a lot of stakeholders, as you…
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Industry
Why Meetups Are Important | 5 Questions with Caitlin Teed
If you don’t know what Shopify is (!) it’s an e-commerce platform for retailers. And it’s very popular . Caitlin Teed is Shopify’s partner community…
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How to Build a Successful WWDC Conference | Jessie Char from Layers
Jessie is the co-founder of Layers , a three-day conference where people talk about design and technology. As a former Apple employee and current…
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Developer Conferences & How to Get Them Right | Sandra Persing
Sandra works (almost) all the time. She has three job titles, has created engagement programs for 18 million developers, and somehow made time to…
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Industry
What Are Conference Organizers Afraid of?
It’s disgraceful that someone should be made to feel unsafe at an industry event where they went to learn, or speak. But if that happens, why not just…
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Google Analytics For The Events Industry: An Honest Guide
As a former event marketer , I can’t say I miss grappling with attribution, multi-channel conversion tracking, and ecommerce reports. Event marketing…
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Event Management Tips from a 30 Year Career | Hugh Forrest from SXSW
30 years is a long time. For context (and the thrill of making us feel ancient), here are just a few things that will be turning 30 this year: John…
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10 Tips for Planning a Tech Conference that Women Will Actually Want to Attend
A number of women from the Women Who Tech community feel like large startups admit there are diversity issues, but not enough action is being taken to…
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Eating Our Own Dog Food: How We’re Using Tito to Run Our First Conference
In the seventies and eighties, commercials for Alpo dog food featured broadcaster Lorne Greene extolling the virtues of the product by feeding it to…
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How to Find a Venue for An Event (Without Losing It Completely)
Paul (and even more so Doc) were especially keen to host our inaugural conference in Chicago. The central location of the city was definitely a draw,…
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10 ways to prevent admin tasks from draining your creative energy
Though I don’t strictly agree with all of these, we’re more than halfway through the year, and almost all of us are past our summer holidays (if we…
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3 Quality Events for Startups (Autumn/Winter, 2018/19)
As a startup ourselves, we know how much decision making and research goes into keeping the business going and pushing it forward. As a startup that…
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The Story Behind Our Conference Design Principles and Practices
We host a community event series called Úr , which is an Irish word for “fresh”. It kicked off in spring 2018. From the design point of view the key…
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The Easiest Way to Design Conference Badges That We’ve Found To-Date
We’ve previously written about what makes functional, beautiful design for conference badges , but now we want to share a new easy, practical way to…
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Introducing the New(est) Members of the Tito Engineering Team: Bill & Murray
Our team at Tito has been growing steadily over the past year and a half. In fact, we’ve now doubled the size of our engineering team. To… four. Here,…
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Why We’ve Decided to Host a Conference
I remember being with Jane Kwett , now with Patreon, several years ago in New York. I’d just started a new role in marketing (with a heavy emphasis on…
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Unexpected Lessons from Unintentionally Starting a Business
Lauren and I often share what one might loosely call CEO-bro articles with one another: tone-deaf screeds on the profound personal joy of waking up at…
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Food Industry Events 2018/19 | A Taster Menu
At Tito, we work with a lot of developer conferences , design conferences, and community conferences, but that’s certainly not all we do. This week…
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Tito Becomes One of the First Companies to Join the New Stripe Partner Programme
We’ve <3’d Stripe for quite some time now, but today we’re beyond excited to announce that Tito is now a verified Stripe Partner. It’s always been an…
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Our first conference…
For the last five years we’ve been lucky enough to have a front-row seat to see how organisers create some of the best events in the business. As…
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Why Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences
As a company, you should support your employees and pay for them to attend or speak at conferences not because you’re looking for a quid-pro-quo ROI.…
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If you build it, they will come | 3 Events for Developers
Long gone are the days of building products and services just for the sake of it. The markets that we all operate in are rife with competitors and…
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The Average Event Manager Salary Per Country in 2019
Do you think you make enough money? Does anyone ? (Note: This post was last updated for accuracy on April 24th, 2019) Society has evolved in a way…
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Welcome & Code of Conduct
At the beginning of 2018’s Brighton Ruby, during the introduction, I wanted to ‘get into’ what having a Code of Conduct means. I hadn’t seen anyone do…
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2018/19 Investment Events – A Round-Up
This week, 402 Democrats and Republicans passed 32 bills intended to make it cheaper and easier for small businesses and startups to access capital…
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3 Different Ways to Implement On-Page SEO for Events [Tutorial]
(If you’re new to SEO and want a crash course on where we’re getting all this from, you should refer to our Basic SEO for Event Pages post here.) I…
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Better Developer Conferences
Panels are almost always awful. “Let’s just go down the line and say a few words about ourselves” – and half an hour of everyone’s life is duly…
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How Business Events Can Aid Company Growth (With 3 Examples)
Growing a business is an inexact science. If we were to use a formula, it would look something like: Lots of money + uniqueness + talent + good timing…
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Getting Creative with the Tito Widget: Real Customer Examples
For most of our customers, Tito’s event homepage is central to their ticket selling process. But there is another way to capture registrations. Tito…
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How Introverts Can Make the Most of Conferences
Many introverts are highly curious, and have a great love of learning. For every person you meet, tap into that character strength and think: “There’s…
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3 Community Event Organisers Working Towards Social Good
When we consider the benefits a conference coming to town could hold for us, we always think about it in terms of numbers: The number of dollars, or…
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Free, Effective Writing Resources for Event Organisers
Whether it’s an invitation, an email asking for more funding, or a recap article, events need content that people will actually read. That said, the…
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Fake It Til You Make It: Events That Over-Promised
Mondays are hard, so there’s no better time to read something on the lighthearted side. Brandwatch have compiled a gallery of some shambolic events…
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A Brief History of Pride: Lessons for the Modern Event Organiser
Tito HQ is in a city where it was illegal to be gay until the year this writer was born. So, as you’d imagine, Pride is a subject very close to our…
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Tito Lookup
With the addition of Murray to the engineering team earlier this year, and Bill also helping us out regularly, we are finally in a position to look at…
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How to run a good tech conference
tl;dr: fabulous team + great attendee experience. Matthew Skelton has orchestrated 5 PIPELINE conferences to date alongside his extraordinary team. In…
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3 Youth Conferences to Add to Your Agenda – A Round-Up
It seems that everyone has what I call “Abe Simpson” days: Those days where you feel your age catching up with you; you feel resentful about having to…
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100 Event Statistics (2018 Edition)
When planning corporate events, planners are most concerned about finding innovative ideas (81%), good venues (65%) and marketing their event…
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3 Conferences for Leaders – An Event Round-Up
First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. – A Bug’s Life Everyone has different opinions about what leadership means, but anyone in a…
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Basic SEO for Event Pages
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is one of the most contentious parts of digital marketing. People are often put off by SEO because of a few…
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Conference Blog Post Content: 20 Types You Can Steal
Team Tito has dipped into how to get more content from your conference experiences before, but it’s pretty rare that a listicle actually contains new…
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3 Developer Events to Attend in 2018
When we look at events generally, we tend to think of the same few reasons as to why we go to them. We either want to make new connections, learn new…
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What I Learned from 8 Years of Conference Badge Design
The Tito office is something of a hub for conference materials. Between the events we host ourselves, the publications we put out for organisers , and…
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30 Beautiful Business Card Designs
It’s Monday morning. Whether you’re one of those people who can hit the ground running and accomplish every task on your plate within seconds of your…
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3 of the Only GDPR Emails We Didn’t Delete (And 2 We Promptly Did)
Sometimes you have to crowd-source material, and sometimes doing that is the worst idea you’ll ever have. This post is a little of both. To begin…
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The Customer Who Crossed Over
The first thing I did when I joined Tito last week was have a look through Slack messenger for any mentions of my name. I felt sure that Doc and Paul…
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What I Learned About Going Viral After Writing Over 1,500 Blog Posts, Columns, and Content Pieces
I have had work published in every single major publication: TIME, Forbes, Fortune, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Slate, The…
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2018 Events for Retailers – A Round-Up
Most people prefer in-store shopping in every product category except books, consumer electronics, and office supplies – Shopify’s 7 Scary Stats for…
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Why You Won’t Find Us On Third-Party Review Sites
“In my job, people try to sell me things.” – Everyone. Ever. The Aim As a business, if you provide a solution that aims to make people’s jobs easier —…
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Fixing transparency issues: Terms and conditions for normal people.
GDPR is cool. It lets you understand what you’re getting yourself into online, it lets you cull the noise in your inbox , and it gives you a hint of…
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Diversifying Events Without Tokenism: 3 Companies That Get it Right
In Europe only 14% of investment goes to female-led startups. There have been strides toward changing that figure, and many others including attempts…
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Meet the Team Saving Public Speakers Hours on Admin
74% of people are afraid of public speaking, but it seems the events industry hasn’t done much in recent times to help those that fear it, nor those…
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Having so many meetings can fragment an engineer’s entire day, eliminating the stretches of uninterrupted time required to build software. Pinterest…
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The History of (and 3 Events for) Geeks
It seems that the interest in finding information about geeks is at an all-time low: Source: Google Trends For literal centuries, geeks were been…
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Two 5-Minute Ways to Decide if Event Technology Fits Your Needs
Functionality is a big word. The fact of the matter is, it can be nearly impossible to get the truth about whether or not a piece of event technology…
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You don’t understand your software engineers
It may seem like this is all we do: But it’s actually a bit more complex. Between discussing how much longer it takes to recover from distraction and…
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3 Ways Events Are Making Tech More Accessible
There’s been a lot of criticism across the industry, either saying that tech is falling short when it comes to helping under-represented minorities,…
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Overheard at the World’s Most Disappointing Conference
– How was the conference? – Do you really want to know? – That bad, huh? – My cortisol levels peaked in the queue* to register, and don’t get me…
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What I’ve learned after 2,700 conferences
All too often a conference or event is seen as being the end of a process, where, once complete, the organizers lower the promotional banners and tot…
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2019 Tech Events to Add to Your Agenda
The events space moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. (Psst… we’ve got our 2020 edition ready for…
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The Many Hangovers from Alcohol at Community Events & How to Cure Them
Daisy Onubogu (pictured below) is head of community at Roam . She works with the several teams who organise events in their global locations,…
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A Note on Security, Data Privacy and our Terms of Service
In just over a month, May 25th will mark the deadline for compliance with the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation . The GDPR has struck fear…
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My Curated List of AI and Machine Learning Resources from Around the Web
I’ve created sections below that contain: well-known researchers, AI organizations, video courses, bloggers, Medium writers, books, YouTube channels,…
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Meetups – A Round-Up
Anyone over the age of 20 will tell you that it gets harder as you get older to make friends. There’s any number of reasons for that. Perhaps it’s…
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3 Specific Reasons Why You Should Get an Event Planning Qualification
Candidates with a bachelor’s degree in meeting and event management, hospitality, or tourism management should have the best job opportunities. – The…
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Selfcare.tech
So often I see my fellow developers ignoring their basic needs for rest and refreshment. I started this site to provide a central location to find…
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Events for Good – A Round-Up
You might be lead to believe that running an event is pretty formulaic. Something, perhaps, like this: Start event Sell tickets ??? Profit & happiness…
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Free vs Paid Events | Lessons from Learn Inbound
A lot of event organisers avoid hosting free events. They treat them like the plague. This quote from our interview with Mark Breen sums up how a lot…
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How I turned a rejected conference talk into 300K views on Medium and YouTube
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying failure is some magical thing that makes everything better. Failure and rejection are always unpleasant. It’s hard…
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3 London Tech Conferences to Attend in 2018/19 | A Round-Up
My three favourite facts about London (in no particular order) are these: More than half of the London Underground network runs above ground. It’s…
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Artificial Intelligence and Events: Making 4 Publications Prosper
Experimentation keeps businesses alive, but flexibility lets them prosper. Many news organisations are embracing diversification to explore new…
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Futuristic Events – A Round-Up
A lot of the time, when we try to predict the future, we get it wrong. I came across this collection of postcards from Public Domain Review recently…
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5 Innovative Ways to Optimise Your Event (Beyond the Ticket Price) | Lessons from Behavioural Scientists
In 2014, the IAA and Carr Communications were awarded ‘Best Event’ from the PRII for the IAA’s Flightfest where 150,000 people lined the streets of…
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5 Things We Learned About Starting a D&I Initiative at a Tech Startup
Casey Paxton is the Recruitment Branding Co-Op at Salsify I’ve been reading Brotopia recently, and so have been ravenously consuming information…
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Beautiful Event Homepages | A Three-Part Round-Up
You need to seek some tranquility when you’re at a busy start-up. Something I’ve learned since starting here is that that specifically is one of the…
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GDPR FAQ – What Conference Organisers Wanted to Know
Have you ever walked out of a presentation given by one of the smartest people you’ve ever seen, still feeling like an idiot? I have, so don’t be too…
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Leave the office on time and don’t take your work home
Here at Tito, we’re big fans of being ourselves. Doc put it really well when we re-launched this blog last year. In this featured post by Darius…
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St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland: Your Questions Answered
There are two types of people on St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland: Those who embrace it. And those who fear it. As an Irish company , I thought we ought…
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Web Design Events – A Round-Up
Whether you learned how to generate a banner for your personal blog in GIMP in 2007 or you’re trying to develop your start-up’s first landing page, or…
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New Innovations for Presentations: Tips from Prezi
We’ve all sat through tedious presentations. You know the ones. With slides in font 8 squeezed in for dear life? Then there are the frightened,…
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5 Reasons Why Women Aren’t Applying to Speak at Your Conference
We’ve spoken to the inimitable Chloe Condon before . She’s an actress turned coding evangelist. Here, she wrote for Go Jane Go about her experiences…
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Canadian Events for Spring 2018
Canada has more lakes than anywhere else, better air than anywhere else, and more Michael Cera birthplaces than anywhere else. It is with a happy…
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From the Women of Tito, on International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day ! In an extra blog post this week, the three women of Tito wanted to share some reflections on their career…
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Innovative Tech For Events And How One Company Made a Business of It
It’s easy to resist change sometimes. For so long I rolled my eyes when I thought of interactive technologies. Because a lot of them seemed to come on…
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8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?”
Assuming you’re already at a work-related networking event or meeting another person in a work context, the question quickly sets a boundary around…
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Events About Innovation (Or Why We Can Have Nice Things)
We’re snowed in at the moment. I for one am glad that the majority of people in Ireland have seen sense, Paul and Doc included, and let their…
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Innovative Ways to Run A Conference: 10 Years of Tips
John Davey, founder of Reasons To , shares his innovative event production tips. Conferences targeted at creative professionals is a very competitive…
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Things I Learned From Attending my First Hackathon
“Listen, getting to the hackathon is better than not going at all, but forcing yourself out of your comfort zone that much further is going to provide…
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Must-Attend Code Conferences: Back to BASICs
I didn’t just want to use this as an excuse to squeeze as many programming puns in as possible. I swear. That said… you better wake up and smell the…
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4 of the Best GDPR Status Pages: Copy & Design
If your birthday’s on the 25th of May, a lot of people are going to ignore you. It’s D-Day for GDPR , and every single business that trades in the EU…
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The 25 Best Icebreaker Questions for Team-Building at Work
However reluctantly, you may have realized that you need to break the ice. I’ve always seen similarities between joining a new team and walking into a…
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GDPR Compliance and Information Security – Some Events to Help
It’s Friday afternoon, do you know where your leads are? *shines light in eyes* Where’d you get them? Who sent you? How long have you had them for?…
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5 Terrific Tools That Will Help You Get GDPR Ready
You might find that you stumble at the first GDPR gate because you don’t know what to use to improve your processes. It can be daunting to balance new…
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Suggestions and Tips for Attending Your First Tech Conference
Twitter is a marvellous thing sometimes. In a 30+ strong thread, Scott has assembled a post full of advice for those fresh to the conference scene.
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3 Inspiring Events Celebrating Women this Spring – A Round-Up
“Well, I guess you don’t know everything about women yet.” – Princess Leia International Women’s Day takes place on March 8th every year. (Admittedly,…
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Tito will be GDPR compliant by March
We got this. Relax in the knowledge that our lawyers are making sure that our processes are running to GDPR standards . The halcyon days of merely…
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When a Code of Conduct Becomes Harmful
It’s necessary we do better than this, especially implementing approaches with quantifiable results that can be tracked over the years. I’ve been…
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Events for Inbound Marketers – A Round-Up
The interesting thing about being a marketer is that we work halfway between the scientific method and the creative process. We target our campaigns…
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The Emoji Report
On average 250 million emojis are posted online each month. The month with the highest volume of emoji use was in July 2016, seeing 293 million. This…
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Personal Development Goals for 2018 – 3 Events For Inspiration
January’s coming to a close and, whether you’re still writing “2017” on your to-do lists, or you’re at the point of successfully completing…
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Ten Lessons Learned from Organizing Diversity-Focused Events
In order to create an event with diverse speakers and attendees, you need to push outside your comfort zone, ask a lot of questions, and fail a lot of…
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A Feel Good Event Round Up
I had a fruit cup for breakfast. I haven’t drank alcohol in 18 days (not in a dependency-back-pat kind of way; I’m doing Dry January ). And, I’m not…
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Event Tech To Try For Your Next Conference
Alex Norman, founder of Tech Toronto, & Lynn Grogan, event producer for Clojure Conferences, share their thoughts. It’s tempting to avoid innovation…
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4 Ways to Create Online Content from Offline Events
Sure, it’s easy to benefit from an event when you actually attend it. But you can make sure your entire community learns from it. You just have to…
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Turning Over a New Leaf: A January Event Round Up
The sentiment of turning over a new leaf as the new year begins is one that can be seen as twee and fake. If you join a gym, you’re mocked because you…
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Event Insurance: A Guide to Cost, Coverage, and Claims
Having worked in the insurance industry for 12 years, I’ve seen some gnarly situations and they all have one thing in common; nobody saw them coming.…
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Javascript is For Girls
The bearded savant of computer science lore was the result of the field’s professionalization and increasing prestige. Logic , “a magazine about…
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Projections for 2018 Event Trends
All I Want for Christmas is You isn’t my favourite, but it did give me an idea. As the year comes to a close, projects wind down, and research and…
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New-Age Nick Cage Networking: A Futuristic Event Round-Up
Art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated by add up to something recognizable. – Pat Metheny We’ve written just over four…
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What You Need to Know About Invisible Disabilities at Events
I would say that in general it is challenging to ask for accommodation because people automatically assume I am being “difficult” or “entitled” to…
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How Going to Coding Events Got Me An Awesome Job
Soon I knew most of the people at every event I attended, and something amazing started to happen… From introversion to code bros, and from “Hi”s to…
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She’ll Be Right: An Australian Event Round-Up
Remember when American TV shows used to make reference to going straight through to China when a character is digging? Or maybe just this specific…
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How Successful Do You Have to Be Before Imposter Syndrome Goes Away?
I’m scared of you. I’m scared that there’s a conversation going on about how my writing is purposeless, and that what I’m saying has been said 1000…
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Get Past Personas
Instead, Oli spoke about the need to “mend trends”, and make design decisions based on data, rather than the most popular trend at the time. The story…
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Art, Altitude, and An Active Lifestyle – The Tito Event Round-Up
It’s cold. And, while I’m breaking a rule of thumb by opening with the weather, I wanted to take a peep to see past the greyscale sky that’s been…
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Breaking into Coding from a Non-Traditional Background
The notion of the “traditional” career path is dead. If you’ve been following us for a while, you’ll know that my beginnings were as a telemarketer .…
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Best Practices for Public Speaking in Design Conferences and Events
Fear is also part of the journey, it is what is going to make you stronger. Enjoy it. Embrace it. This is one of the greatest moments of your life and…
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The Gift of Giving – An Event Round Up
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults…
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Tactics You Need To Use When Planning A Career Fair
Colleen Casey of Devex, a global development community, shares her tips. There is a lot of expectation from attendees when they sign up for a career…
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How This Anxious Introvert Handles Large Events
Introversion isn’t shyness and it’s not a like or dislike of people generally. For example, I really enjoy public speaking. Introversion is…
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The Most Inspiring Event Round Up (probably)
Each Friday on the Tito blog , we showcase some 3(-ish) notable customers. Below, I’ve picked some events run by those customers , all of which are…
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On Our Recent Downtime
On my recent post about our current job openings , I linked to our status page which showed our near-100% uptime for the past 6 months. We had just…
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How to Teach Girls to Code (and Deal with Brogrammers)
“I never thought of computer science as a job opportunity in the future,” says Ali, “but after this program, boy, has that changed.” After the…
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A Highly Creative Event Round-Up
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams This week on Tito, I wanted to dig into some of the…
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Inspiring Women in Tech, Their Resumés and What You Can Learn From Them
It’s annoying when people use superlatives to make what they write sound better. In fact, it’s the worst. I don’t want to talk about today’s Most…
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Take off your name badge!
Ditching your name tag is a subtle cue that you’re a bit different from everyone in the audience – you’re just that little bit special. This is a…
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Christmas Event Round-Up – Too Soon?
I was buying food for dinner yesterday when I saw a Jack-o’-lantern helium balloon stuck to the shop ceiling, over a Christmas tree. It takes a few…
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The Importance of Well-Designed Events
But different doesn’t necessarily mean better. Being different is more memorable, but you need to be positively remembered for standing out from the…
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Do You Want to Build a Webapp?
In 2015, I wrote a blog post for AWS Startups about how we use a multi-az setup on Amazon to build in redundancy for every component in the Tito…
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The Three Things I’ve Learned From Eighteen Years of Public Speaking
“Right around the same time I was learning facts about Killer Whales (top speed — 65 km/h), I remember hearing about a study that ranked people’s…
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There’s No Such Thing As a Free Event Round-Up
I always thought the phrase “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” came off as unappreciative. I understand the sentiment that you’ll always have to…
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The Business Case for Diversity & How One Conference is Making it Happen
From All Male Panels to the now infamous Google Memo to speakers boycotting events , diversity has come to the fore of the minds of those in business…
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7 Ways to Bring Back to the Office What You’ve Learned at a Conference
Going to a conference is always exciting and inspiring. Speakers will share tons of ideas and attendees will often finish the day feeling ready to try…
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How Very European! – Event Round-Up
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. – Yannick Noah Even though it’s the smallest continent, Europe manages to fit a…
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Niche Tech Events in Regional Areas Help Create Diverse Tech Clusters
Aaron Quint, pictured above, co-founder of Catskills Conf gives his insights Big city living is not for everyone. The rush, the noise, the lunch…
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Prompt: Continuing the Mental Health Conversation
F or some reason, we often stigmatize having issues with our brains. People in tech don’t want to admit there are issues being ignored. Prompt is part…
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Who Will Market to Marketing? – Event Round-Up
This week on Tito, I wanted to feature some conferences that are particularly close to my heart and, by proxy, my career: the events that are made…
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Trans and Non-Binary Coding Events
An interview with Naomi Ceder, Trans*Code event co-organiser Naomi Ceder has been involved in the Python community for 16 years. Currently she serves…
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Are Conferences The Future Of Work?
The workplace should be carefully designed to offer social exchange, interactive drama and debate, intellectual and emotional stimulation, wow and aha…
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Wigs, Women, and Workshops – The Event Round-Up
Wigstock was a New York-based festival for Drag Queens in the 1990s. This was at the height of RuPaul’s gender-bending music career which made way for…
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Introducing a Series on Diversity
When Maria asked a selection of our customers what topics were important to them that we could research and write about, two topics came to the fore:…
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Changelog: Winter is coming
We continue to work feverishly behind the scenes on the next version of Tito but in the meantime here are some pulls, tugs and tweaks to our existing…
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4 Simple Steps To Enjoying (& Being Good At) Networking
To a majority of participants, networking events make them feel vulnerable and insecure, so schmoozing or putting up a front is an easy reaction.…
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It’s Really Very Simple: The Tito Event Round-Up
The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. – Captain Jim Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series As my previous efforts…
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3 Ways to See the Value of Events Even if They Didn’t Help You Sell
Matthieu Gauthier is the Head of Marketing at Mention , a French HQ’d organization that aims to help those in events and beyond to monitor how their…
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6 Steps to Avoid Internet Overload at Your Event
Our total bandwidth estimate for the first three hours of an event with an expected 20,000 people in attendance is now 400Gb per hour. This will not…
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A Funny, Little, Weekly Event Round-Up
Babies laugh, on average, 400 times a day; people over 35, only 15. – Alison Beard for Harvard Business Review For me, the end of the week is usually…
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How we spent $35K in 4 hours. Should startups invest in events?
The total cost of the event was $35K, which, for a startup, is a lot of money (that’s nearly the salary for a newbie fresh out of university). But for…
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A Very Irish Event Round Up
I went to Poland last week and discovered that they really like cabbage and building chandeliers out of salt. Unfortunately, on the first day of my…
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Things I’ve learnt so far from speaking at conferences
Silence and a well-timed pause is a very powerful thing. It also adds rhythm. Think about your presentation having a good narrative arc. Like a film.…
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The Three Birds of Ticket Sales – Event Round-Up
We at Tito are in the business of helping events sell tickets. If you’ve ever been at an event (which surely you must have) you’ll know that those…
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5 Organizations that Sponsor Design Events
Sales was a big part of my life for quite some time. The biggest draw for me was the ability to learn how people made decisions and how those…
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The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences
Eric Holscher: In the events that I help organize, I try to solve this problem by giving people explicit permission to join new groups of people .…
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Compassion, Co-Operation, and Cable Cars – The Tito Event Round Up
Every week, we round up three of the most interesting events on Tito to share with our readers whether they want to attend, support or get inspired by…
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What Our Conference Sponsorship and 0% ROI Taught Me About Marketing
Instead, our goal was awareness, partnerships and networking. Despite what the marketing experts will tell you, you can’t measure any of these. Sure,…
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Is Your Event Safe?
Mark Breen, co-founder of Cuckoo Events & Safe Events, wants you to be honest with yourself about the safety of your attendees. The concepts of safety…
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Leaders, Learners, and Legends – An Event Round-Up
At Tito, our customers are the life and soul of everything we do . As a result, we want to spend a little time each week showcasing everything that…
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Event Sponsorship, From Both Sides
Amy Crimmens is the Community Manager for Red Badger; a digital consultancy that’s heavily involved with the tech community in east London and beyond.…
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6 Potential Tools for Getting Sponsorship This Year
You may remember me from such posts as “ How I Got Sponsorship for the First Time ” If you don’t, let me catch you up. Things have changed since my…
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Lego, Leadership, and Zombies – An Event Round-Up
We help events sell tickets. And there are as many types of events out there as there are ways to say hello , so it’s worthwhile to occassionally step…
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How I Got Sponsorship for The First Time
My first sponsorship experience was five years ago when I was landed with the task of funding a debating society for a year. In the spirit of jumping…
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Changelog: It’s The Final Countdown
I’m lucky because I love what I do — it’s a privileged position for sure, but taking a break is healthy. And especially when it’s to welcome a new…
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What I Have Learned from Running My First Conference
I had unrealistic expectations in October 2016, when I decided that Cork deserved it’s own marketing conference. I was going to have 1000 people…
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Changelog: Check It Out
✨ Some tweaks, tidies and improvements to the UI and language around assigning tickets in the checkout. Hopefully this will make things clearer, but…
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Corporate Sponsorship For a Creative Event Can Work
A corporate sponsor’s relationship with a creative event can sometimes be akin to a bad, drunken one night stand. So much was promised, so many…
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Putting on a conference
I don’t think conference organisers can shirk this issue and say “It’s out of my hands; I’m just reflecting the way things are.” The whole point of…
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How to Secure Event Sponsorship
Holger Blank of JSConf EU shares his sponsorship tips Holger Blank, pictured below, is the sponsorship maestro for JSConf EU, a not for profit…
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Marketing Has to Get Better
A Bit of Background I was a telemarketer. I used to call Americans to ask them if they wanted white papers from tech hardware companies, and if they’d…
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Welcoming Maria to Team Tito
“And we’ve done it all without any marketing”, is a phrase that I commonly reach for after talking about Tito numbers, growth or sales figures. It’s a…
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Changelog: Times They Are A-Changin’
I know I said we didn’t do much “onstage” stuff, but what I meant to say is that we didn’t do much big onstage stuff. Here’s a list of a few of the…
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Why We Care About Sponsorship
It’s with pleasure that I tell you what our first theme for the revamped Tito blog is going to be: Sponsorship. Why We Chose Sponsorship We surveyed…
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Hello.
Don’t compare your backstage to other people’s onstage. — Patrick Rothfuss We’ll get into the awkward subject of why there have been no blog posts in…
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Apple Pay for the Web: Available Now on Tito
It’s iOS10 release day. Since Tito is a web app, we don’t usually have to keep up with the latest APIs, SDKs, and super shiny new features. This…
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How to prepare and write a tech conference talk
There are a few things which frame my experience and capabilities in preparing and giving conf talks: I’m an introvert. I really love public speaking.…
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Renting Conference Venues and the Mistakes I Made
“As the banquet manager began rearranging our carefully laid out AV equipment 30 minutes before the doors opened I knew we had made a major mistake in…
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10 Things you can do to Foster Diversity and Inclusion at Your Next Tech Event
The title says it all. Some great tips for being more inclusive.
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What I learned speaking at events as a CEO for the past 2.5 years
Of all the channels we’ve tried, I’ve found speaking at events and conferences to have been the most interesting experiment for us. While speaking…
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Sponsorship Sales Sluggish? Seven Suggestions for Success
At Tito I speak with conference organisers every day and one of the main talking points is sponsorship sales. Be it a well established tech event or a…
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Changelog: Commit message quality control edition
It has been almost eight months since our last changelog post, too long and with things not so fresh in my mind I have been going through our commit…
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How to: Zapier Integration
In a follow-up to our post earlier this month on using webhooks to push information to Slack , here’s a way to share data with over 500 other apps…
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The Tito Profile Series, Volume 1, Interview 1: Marc Thiele
As our customer base grows, it is becoming very clear to us that our customers have a lot to share with each other (and everyone else) about their…
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Posting new registrations to Slack
Slack is a messaging app for teams. We love it here at Tito (I’m sure many of you do too) and it forms an integral part of both our internal and…
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Tito WWDC
If you’re in and around the SF area during the week of WWDC this year, be sure to check out some of the awesome fringe events. Tickets to AltConf and…
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Downtime Incident Report, March 25 2016
This morning at 5am, Tito became unavailable for all customers. We were made aware of this at around 8am, investigated, pushed an update and resolved…
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Indigenous Company Creates Job
Hot on the heels of headquartering in Ireland , a mere two years later Irish online ticket sales company Tito has created one job. In a major coup for…
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2015: You Won’t Believe How Incredible Our Journey Has Been
We’d like to update the entire Tito community that, despite the odds, Tito is still in business . Our incredible journey continues without venture…
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Cheaper European Pricing from Stripe
Good news everyone! On December 9th Stripe lowered their pricing for all 14 supported European countries: Our new price is 1.4% + €0.25 for European…
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Counting down to The Force Awakens with… Starwavatars!
When we were working on our new UI with Pete McDonagh last August, Doc sneaked something into the mockups that delighted us all. If attendees or Tito…
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Changelog Gavin Sheridan Edition
Dear Gavin , (he’s sat next to me here in the office, so why not write the changelog as a letter to him?) It’s been over 3 months since last I wrote a…
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The Good Event Registration Guide
Tito, mostly suitable for independent/freelance event planners. Speaks to our core. This guide is a fascinating look at the hugely fragmented world of…
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Stripe beta invites for Brazil and Portugal
Stripe are now sending out invites for their Brazil and Portugal betas. Sign up at stripe.com/global ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
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Event Homepage Redesign Means an Improved User Experience
Since I started working with Tito I’ve enjoyed being part of the mission to provide the best possible user experience for both event organisers and…
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Introducing Team Tito Limited
A New Company Last week’s Irish budget sparked some serious criticism and response from some clued-in folks. VC Brian Caulfield even went so far as to…
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Conference diversity from an organiser’s perspective
Web typography evangelist, and Tito customer, Richard Rutter shares his approach. Putting together a diverse line-up is much easier said than done,…
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$70m
Tom Lyons for the Sunday Business Post: The Dublin-based start-up, which employs just three people, is handling ticket sales of up to €200,000 a day…
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A Word from The Design Department
Paul: It’s been nearly a year. Doc: No it hasn’t. Paul: It has. Doc: checks So it’s been nearly a year since I put fingers to keyboard for this blog.…
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A Matter of Public Record
The Irish Times: The Web Summit founder is an expert at gaining publicity for himself and his endeavours. He is particularly fond of being in the…
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Tito and the Web Summit
Earlier today I was very surprised to be informed (cheers Mic ) that Paddy Cosgrave had claimed in an interview that he built Tito as part of the…
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All The Small Things
It’s been a while, but we have not been idle! Here’s a rundown of the many, many small updates we’ve pushed over the past 5 weeks: PayPal Refunds.…
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Action Stations
Action Stations! “Let’s see if we can get rid of the ‘Actions’ menu” he said, coyly. 5 weeks and over 500 commits later, we’ve gone and shipped our…
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On Conferencing While Introverted
tl;dr: Conferences are great, people are great, but I’m an introvert and these things are mentally and emotionally draining in addition to being fun…
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait… and reveal
You may or may not have noticed (particularly may not if you aren’t in Ireland), but our bills now correctly apply Irish VAT. Go Team Ireland! Mr.…
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Use our new Messages tool to send messages to your attendees
One of our most requested features is finally seeing the light of day. Entering public beta is our Messages tool that allows you to send email to your…
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A Quick Links Update
In Customize -> Links , you can now add: tel:// links, eg. tel://555-1234 … When someone taps the link on a mobile, the number will call…
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Some more tweaks
Webhooks now fire in serial, so if multiple hooks for the same registration or ticket fire together, they’ll be sent to your web service in the order…
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New UI shipped weeks ago, but stuff is still being fixed
We added totals to the daily digest email. They now show you what your ticket sales/activity was like the previous day, but they also give you a…
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Schrödinger’s Cat Edition
We’ve changed the default URL for passing a discount code through to an event page. Where once it was of the format…
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The March of post-new-UI fixes and updates continues (in April)
We had some favicon issues. It wasn’t personal, but the Rails asset pipeline really didn’t want anyone to see the favicons. We’ve done a deal with…
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Glide
Glide is an advanced tool for creating compelling apps that primarily provide text, audio and video content. The founders have created an app for Úll…
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More additions to the epic April bugfix spree of 2015
Organizers can now update the billing address / company name of orders right from the Tito admin (this isn’t really a bug, but it bugged a lot of…
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Post new UI bug roundup round 2
decided to add a bit more personality to bug changelogs because why not? If you connected a payment option to your account and then created a ticket…
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Post new UI bug roundup
fixed a bug causing an error when team members were invited to an account fixed a bug where textareas looked like text fields, causing confusion about…
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Event organizer admin updates
admin is now more responsive (mobile-friendly AND feels snappier) modernised visual look and feel step-by-step setup introduced account section…
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How much it cost us to make more attendees feel safe and welcome at .concat() 2015
Being a low-budget community event, we didn’t have a lot of money. But we tried to show our attendees and speakers that we care about them. Here’s…
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Bugfix: Empty Overlay
A fix for a bug that in some cases where JS wasn’t loaded, an empty overlay would appear and the page would hang.
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IE9 PayPal redirect issue
Fixed a bug where IE9 users paying by PayPal would end up on a hanging processing page.
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12 Awesome Event Website Inspirations for 2015
OpenVis Conf is a two-day, single track conference about the practice of visualizing data on the web. Speakers will discuss best practices for data…
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PayPal Integration Updates
We’ve updated our PayPal integration to use the official PayPal SDK , which should result in an increase in reliability for Connecting PayPal (which…
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Custom formats for invoice numbers
You can now customise the format of your invoice numbers. For example Italian invoice numbers need to start from 1 at the beginning of each year. Go…
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JavaScript callbacks for the Tito Widget
You can now write code that listens for events like registration:started , or registration:complete as they happen when you use the Tito widget,…
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The Release
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about “The Panic” of conference organisation, I thought I should write a bit about the other side of it: The…
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How To Run a Small Conference
Chad Fowler’s Wunderlist edition of his 2007 blog post. Full of insight and important questions.
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The Panic
Last year, Seth Godin wrote a wonderful, concise post about titled “How do I get rid of the fear?” Úll 2015 is the 8th conference that I’ve had a hand…
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Hundreds and Thousands
There’s something about a first full year in business that feels like standing still, despite things marching on. 2014 felt a bit like that, but as I…
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Organizer registration notifications
Following a suggestion from one of our customers, Stephan Boönneman, the email notification that event organizers receive for ticket registrations now…
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@beep’s Questions For Event Organizers
Some useful things to consider for both speakers and organizers alike.
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Welcome 3fe
My name is Colin Harmon and in 2008 I decided that I wanted to devote everything I had to coffee. — 3fe, Our Story The story is a good one and we’ve…
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Perfect Forward Secrecy
We now score an A+ in Qualsys’s SSL test , with perfect forward secrecy enabled on our load-balancers.
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Performance tuning
We’ve deployed a few updates to our checkout process that should make for a faster experience for anyone buying tickets to an event powered by Tito.
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Humans, Interacting
Dave Wiskus , on people and conferences:
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Planned maintenance: Short database upgrade
We’re resizing our database hardware tonight at 10pm UTC/GMT. This may cause around 60 seconds of downtime during the resizing process.
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Logo and Identity for 2014 Brand New Conference by UnderConsideration
Lovely branding work—it’s all in the details.
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Custom registration unavailable message
You can now customize the message that displays when there are no tickets publically available. You can find the setting in Customize > Homepage .
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Security: POODLE update
In response to the POODLE SSL vulnerability, we have disabled SSLv3 on our load balancers. RIP IE6.
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Impressions of JSConf EU 2014
A video recap of a great conference. See if you can spot the handsome Irish beard.
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Tickets Remaining Notification
In Customize -> Homepage , you can now choose to show how many tickets are remaining. You can also set a threshold, so that the notification only…
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A Forkable Conference
Mikeal Rogers : Since the beginning of this year I’ve tried to figure out ways I can enable more organizers. First directly, through new small events…
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Question descriptions now support markdown
Just add Markdown to your question descriptions and they’ll appear beautifully formatted below the questions.
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Custom domain issues with Safari
We identified a bug this morning that prevented customers completing transactions in certain cases if they were using Safari. The bug affected people…
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Making Our Events More Inclusive For Those Under 21 (and Also Everyone Else)
I know a lot of amazingly smart designers and developers who are under 18, and many of them are physically prevented from attending an industry event…
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On Design Conferences
A trained ape can invite the same speakers who speak everywhere else. Conference planners should constantly seek new talent and new ideas. Even more,…
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Jason Snell: Live Podcast Streaming on iOS
Continuing with yesterday’s theme of doing a lot with very little while at events, Jason Snell shows off his ultra-portable podcast-streaming…
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Creating a Personal Conference Experience at Reject.JS
The tools to put together a music experience at low-to-no cost are better than they’ve ever been. If you’re interested in recreating any of the…
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How to Choose a Web Conference that’s Right For You (Part 1)
One of the great benefits of attending an industry conference is the opportunity to meet like-minded people. Sharing successes and struggles,…
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Passbook download issues
Customers were reporting issues downloading Passbook files. Issue was found and fixed.
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WTF is happening?
We like to set the tone for the rest of the event in the first few minutes. There is usually something on the schedule called keynote that isn’t a…
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Tito WordPress Plugin
Last week Paul showed a preview of our new widget — just one of a number of new and updated features we’ll be talking about over the next few weeks.…
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$30m, and a Preview
Our last post in June was an important one: $20m worth of tickets processed in the first 5 months of 2014. We’ve been working hard for the last few…
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$20m
On January 1st this year, we announced that Tito customers had sold USD$10m worth of tickets through Tito. Getting to $10m took over a year. This…
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The Conference Crash
It’s been two weeks since Úll , the conference about building great products, that we co-run with Tapadoo . One thing about conference planning that…
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All The Small Things
I started back this week after a long honeymoon in New Zealand. I’ve spent my time mostly working on little things. After a big release , the…
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Pause and Rewind Part II: Orders and Modules
Following on from my previous work updating the Attendee viewer, I spent a couple of days this week updating the Orders viewer, as well as applying…
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New Currencies for US and European Stripe Accounts
Yesterday Stripe announced support for 139 currencies for their US and European-based accounts. This will be huge win for any event organisers wanting…
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Pause and Rewind
There are many advantages to working in a small team. Agility, fast decision making and cheap rounds. But with a team of four you inevitably have to…
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Irish Company Locates Office in Ireland
Dublin, Wed 29 Jan 2014 Hot on the heels of Dropbox , AirBnB , Twitter , Facebook and many others , Irish online ticket sales company Tito are amongst…
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Announcing ti.to
After the $10 million milestone , it’s clear that many people trust Tito to provide stress-free software for their events. As our customer base grows,…
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ThingsCon and Being Creative with our JS Embed
Since early last year we have given Tito customers the ability to embed a ticket purchase form into their site. We provide a simple, unobtrusive base…
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Added “Booking Fees” on Tickets (Or How We Want to Reduce Stress)
Last week, Doc wrote a bit about our decision making process for why we don’t prompt for information before people can buy tickets . Another feature…
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A Roundup of Conference Wrapup Posts and Transparency Reports
Earlier today, Peter Cooper tweeted: I’ve seen some great conference postmortems (including financials) over the years, but can find none now. Anyone…
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Ticket Purchase Flow: An Evolution
At Tito, we feel our service lovingly serves two core groups of people: event organisers, and attendees looking to buy tickets. We strive to give both…
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Porting the Blog to Siteleaf
With this shiny new year comes a concerted effort to have the whole team at Tito blog more regularly. I was dreading this a bit. Fitting quite neatly…
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$10 Million and a Thank You
This time last year the Tito team were smiling. Our fledgling service for selling tickets online had processed $1 million worth of tickets. Less than…
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Tito in 2013: A Look Back and a Quick Look Forward
It’s been a very exciting year. Twelve months ago Tito had processed about 2,500 payments for our early adopters involved in the private beta. As we…
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Keeping a Little Crazy
I had the pleasure of spending some time with Patrick Collison in Dublin for the launch of Stripe Ireland a few weeks ago. Stripe, to me, is the…
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Down to Business
It’s been a while since we wrote anything on the Tito blog, but we’ve been anything but inactive. My October was basically the one thing that a…
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Look After Your Speakers
A guest post from Dermot Daly . Further to Paul’s post on reducing awkwardness , I thought it worthwhile to add some thoughts on reducing awkwardness…
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This Week on Tito: Geeks, Games and Makers
There’s been plenty of action on Tito in the past week, and lots more to come, having sold well over a thousand tickets across 70 events. First up,…
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“Hi, I’m Obie”
“Hi, I’m Obie”. I’ll never forget that one line, how it made me feel, and it completely changed my approach to attending every event since. I was 25…
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This Week on Tito: Realtime Octo-Dancing
Over 1500 tickets were sold across nearly 80 events in the last week on Tito. Let’s see some choice cuts. Following on from my mention last week of…
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Progress, One Ticket at a Time
Progress bars are an awesome way to get a quick snapshot of how your ticket sales are going, and we’ve made extensive use of them in building Tito.…
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5 Tips To Reduce Conference Awkwardness
On the Giant Robots Podcast 2 weeks ago, I talked about some of the steps that we used at Úll to reduce awkwardness at the conference. Awkwardness is…
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This Week on Tito: Close to My Heart
This week, there have been a number of events selling tickets that are particularly close to my heart, whether because of the folks organising them,…
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Aussie Rules
Good news for our Australian friends: announcing two new payment options for AUD. We’ve been testing Pin Payments for the last few months as an…
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This Week on Tito: Our Mad Hybrid Future
I’m just back from the UK, where I spent an enjoyable two days at HybridConf , a conference started by Tito Founding Customer Zach Inglis . The…
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Digest Publication
Tito customers for their Insites events, Viewport Industries are Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks . Time after time, these two redefine what it…
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The Weekly Tito Events Roundup
The Great British Node Conference goes on sale today, so what better day to do a roundup of some interesting events on Tito. Over 500 tickets have…
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Introducing Tito’s Founding Customers
It was a little bit crowd-funding, and a little bit offer-they-can’t-refuse… Midway through our private early-access period, we decided that we wanted…
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Dashboard facelift
At the end of last week we gave the dashboard a new lick of paint. The old bar charts have been integrated into one new and improved 31-day graph for…
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Digest
Inbox 3000? We might be able to help… We’ve added a digest email to give you a daily summary of your ticket registrations. By default, this has been…
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Refunds
We’re delighted to announce our first new feature here on the blog, and it’s a big one… You can now process refunds for all payment gateways from…
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First Post! The Tito Story
Since we’re at the tip of a public release, it’s about time that we started talking a bit more publically about what we’re up to. This blog is the…