When there are ideas worth spreading, we hope they spread by people who connect through Presdo Match!

Presdo is proud to provide Presdo Match to the second annual TEDxToronto conference, happening on Wednesday, September 30.

Hosting hundreds of attendees who will be at the sold-out main event and several satellite events, TEDxToronto is the official TEDx conference for Toronto, Canada. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, it brings together the city’s foremost thought leaders, change makers and everyday people from each discipline and challenges them to deliver powerful, unforgettable and unique TEDxTalks.

Presdo Match will enable TEDxToronto attendees to find other people of interest and enable them meet them one-on-one during the day and at the event’s afterparty, creating the opportunity for more meaningful conversations for everyone.

This year’s featured speakers include Neil Hetherington, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Toronto, George Kourounis, Furious Earth, Drew Dudley, Founder of Nuance Leadership and Amanda Sussman, Senior Advisor of Plan International, Canada.

If you will be at TEDxToronto this week, find out more about how you can meet interesting people face-to-face with Presdo Match.

Today, we are very excited to talk about a new product that we’ve been incubating for several months with a select set of customers and partners.

The product is Presdo Match, and it helps enable face-to-face meetings at conferences, trade shows and other types of events.  It solves a problem that we all have experienced when we’ve gone to conferences and trade shows: who should we meet?

How many times have you shown up with not a clue about who you should meet or who you should be talking to?  Surely, networking has been cited widely as the most important reason to attend events, whether to develop important relationships or to close business.  Presdo Match is our answer.

We work with event organizers to set up Presdo Match for their events.  Once set up, attendees use Presdo Match to discover others they want to meet.  Attendees can search for other attendees based on interests and background, and perhaps more interesting, they can now find out who in their LinkedIn social network will also be there.  (In fact, Presdo Match makes great use of LinkedIn in several ways!)

Presdo Match also enables attendees to set up face-to-face meetings during the event.  It does so through the best scheduling user experience in the industry… something we know a little about!

For event organizers, Presdo Match increases attendance and helps get people to register for their events sooner.

There’s much more to say about Presdo Match.  We have a new section on our site that talks about Presdo Match.

If you are an event organizer or you will be attending an event, and you would like to see Presdo Match at your event, let us know.  We would be happy to tell you more about how to make it happen.

We are so excited to tell you about a new feature of Presdo called Presdo Link.  It makes scheduling meetings easier and faster than ever before.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could somehow meld your email and calendar together when it comes to scheduling? We thought so too, and Presdo Link is based on our own scheduling challenges and our insights on how to radically improve it.

How does Presdo Link work? First, get your own Presdo Link. Your link will be of the form “http://presdo.com/johnsmith”, where “johnsmith” is whatever you choose. Think of it as a “vanity license plate” for your scheduling activities.

Once you have your link, share it with friends and business contacts who want to schedule with you. When they click the link, they see a calendar displaying your availability in gray (busy) and white (free) areas.

They can use Presdo Link to pick a time (or multiple times). If their single selection is free on your schedule, the time is automatically confirmed on both sides so you don’t have to respond (if they propose multiple times, you can choose the most convenient). Either way, both parties get notified with the details.

You might be wondering how Presdo knows about your schedule. That’s where our Google Calendar sync comes in. Sync Presdo with your Google Calendar and meetings scheduled with Presdo Link automatically pop onto your calendar.

So get your link now before someone else grabs the one you wanted, and make your scheduling easier and fastest than ever before!