Organising a research conference can be quite the challenge. Some might even advise you not to do it. But it’s also an amazing opportunity and a rewarding experience. Putting together a successful event doesn’t have to be an uphill struggle. You just to remember three golden rules: plan ahead, surround yourself with a great team,…
[July 2017 Update: Ex Ordo announce PaperCrowd, the free research conference directory. Add your conference for free and and make it visible to researchers all over the world. You can read how PaperCrowd improves the Call for Papers here.] In order to collect submissions for your conference, you’ll need to send a Call for Papers (CFP) or…
2015 got off to a great start for Ex Ordo! Our platform has seen some major enhancements: we’ve released new features to improve how we support conferences with complex processes. Tracks allows you to manage multiple streams for your conferences, and set different deadlines, topics, reviewers and chairs for each track. Custom fields makes it possible to customise the submission process and ask…
[updated: 28th April 2016] Figuring out what to put on your website and how to design it can be tricky, particularly if you’ve never done it before. We’ve put together a list of eight examples of efficient conference websites to give you some inspiration. We’ve also included examples of websites for non-academic conferences, which tend to have…
Torsten Geelan is a PhD student in the Sociology Department in Cambridge University, U.K. He chaired the ‘Crisis & Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons’ Conference in 2014, the first conference organised by graduates in his department. Torsten has kindly given us an insight into organising a student-led symposium. Overcoming Time Constraints While this was the first conference Torsten…
Being accepted to present your work at a conference is a big achievement. You get to showcase your work to a larger audience. However, the Q&A session is just as important as the presentation itself. Here are some tips on how to handle the conference Q&A session. Set your stall out early Before you begin your presentation,…
Your conference website is one of the first milestones of the conference planning process (download our conference planning ebook to get more details on all the milestones). Anyone looking for information on your conference will start by looking up for your website in a search engine. Your website is a major promotional tool and will…
Last month, Anand Sarwate, author of the blog The Ergodic Walk, and Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, posted an article on the tools available for academics. He opened it with an unusual question: “Why oh why can’t we have nice web-based software for academic…
Choosing the right solution to build your conference website is a critical step. There are a lot of solutions available to build your site, but if you’re looking for a cost-effective yet flexible one, WordPress is your best bet. (This article is about WordPress.org, not WordPress.com. You can read this article to understand the difference)….
Over the past couple of years, we’ve learnt a lot from the conferences we’ve supported. We wanted to share this knowledge with you, so we’ve created an infographic containing some interesting statistics. We’ve also added some of the best tips from our mentors.