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Welcome to the myConference information page

Online Academic Conferencing System

By Gregory Booth
Cape Peninsula University of Technology

The myConference application consists of a set of web based tools primarily designed to assist in and cater for Academic Conferencing. This application is currently in its final stages of development and has been tested thoroughly by numerous associations and professional bodies. It is ideally suited and can provide a professional web presence for research associations, technology stations, university business units, institutional, community and NGO projects. The outcome of its implementation in these areas has always been one of achieving more than the initial goals.

myConference has the following functionality:

Content management system (CMS)

  • A professional attractive website
  • Online editing
  • Easy development and administration of web content
  • News feed (new)
  • Built in templates that contain your associations branding
  • Two dimensional menu that updates automatically
  • Dynamic click through photo gallery
  • Document and article publishing
  • Searchable archives
Event and user management
  • User community and tracking
  • Online membership profiles
  • Registrations for events
  • Online invoicing and payments if required
  • Reporting
Academic component
  • Online abstract and paper submissions
  • Abstract searching and tracking (new)
  • International blind peer review processes
  • Notifications by automated preformatted emails (new)
  • Event programme generation
Other
  • Entirely database driven
  • Search engine friendly
  • Easy to administer
  • Shopping cart plug-in if required
Options for implementation
  • Let myConference host your once off event on our portal
  • Build a new myConference website from scratch for your association
  • Migrate content over from your existing association website into a new myConference website
  • Integrate and existing website with an instance of myConference to use it's academic conferencing functionality

We will gladly discuss any of the above options to assist your academic conferencing and website requirements. myConference is a great way to assist your association by; slashing your administration costs, increasing your visibility, upping your membership numbers and gaining your association credibility through promoting a quality image.

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Existing websites can be viewed:

Active conferences:
1. Association of Hospitality and Tourism Schools in Africa
2. Energy Forum (DUE and ICUE)
3. Facility and Infrastructure Management Symposium
4. International Council for Physical Fitness Research
5. South African Applied Linguistics Association
6. Sustainability and Quality of Life Conference

Non active conferences:
1. Ethical Leadership Project
2. Informatics Development for Health in Africa
3. National Asset Management Forum
4. South African Association for Academic Development
5. Southern African Association for Institutional Research
6. Students Media Association
7. World Wide Web Conference

Projects/unit application:
1. AgriFood Technology Station
2. Bright box (Department of Graphic Design, CPUT)
3. FoodTech (Department of Food Technology, CPUT)
4. French South African Institute of Technology
5. Department of Journalism
6. Information & Communication Technology Academy
7. ICT Regional Academy
8. Marketing (Department of Marketing, CPUT)
9. Water Supply and Sanitation Unit
10. KwaZulu Natal Fly Fishing Association
11. Haven Homes
12. South African Technology Association
13. CPUT New Web Environment Project

Other application:
1. The Wine Box
2. ProGroup South Africa

View also:
1. myConference presentation

myConference has been in development since 2004 and is now in it's final iteration. For further information on implementation of myConference and research for the development, please contact:

Gregory Booth
Lead Developer: CPUT Web Environment
Email: boothg@cput.ac.za
Telephone: +27 (0)21 9596718
Cell: +27 (0)82 2020811