Leancamp in London
On May 10th the first Lean Camp event was held in London. Some Big.first.name Name Badges were in action...
Many more photos from the day can be found on flickr
On May 10th the first Lean Camp event was held in London. Some Big.first.name Name Badges were in action...
Many more photos from the day can be found on flickr
Christine Peterson from The Foresight Institute writes about using Big.first.name nametag software for the recent Foresight 2010 Conference:
Thanks for a great service
Hi Jason -- This past weekend our nonprofit organization held a conference using one of the online conference registration services.
When we went to print the badges the day before the meeting started, we found that their service's badge-printing function simply did not work.
Panic!
I went online and found big.first.name, and in a short time we had lovely badges printed!
Thanks, big.first.name. You rock.
--Chris
Christine Peterson, Vice President, Foresight Institute.
Skip through one of the conference videos below to see the name badges in action...
Creating name badges for your next Meetup.com meetup is easy using Big.first.name.
The quick screencast below shows you how.
(After clicking play click the "Play in HD" button.)
XING event guest lists can be exported as xml and then imported in to big.first.name to create name badges.
The import will automatically include the XING profile picture of each guest in to the big.first.name avatar field. So that your name badges generated will include the familiar profile picture from the XING website.
Adding personal avatars to name badges is now possible with Big.first.name. It's a work-in-progress and twitter support is now available. Meetup and Upcoming avatars will be added in the next release.
Currently available in the free "basic layout" this video gives a demo of the personal twitter avatar name badges...
Ryan Pamplin, assistant organizer of the Meetup202: NYC Affiliate Marketing Meetup Group, used Big.first.name to make some name badges for their recent First NYC Meetup.
Ryan reports about the name badges he made:
People were impressed by them. Your web app saved me a lot of time and hassle. (I was going to use mail-merge in Word). The badges printed properly (lined up) on the first try, which was a pleasant surprise. Thank you.
Here is a photo from the event:
On July 10th Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK hosted TechCrunch Pitch! in central London. Some Big.first.name Nametags were in action...
Many more photos from the conference can be found on flickr
When printing out your nametags and name badges it sometimes can be hard to align the printer correctly. Printing on plain paper first can help your with this.
It's important to check that the print settings on your computer isn't scaling the print job up or down in size. Check that Page Scaling is set to "None" (and not say "Shrink to Printable Area").


On March 13th the XING Pest and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok regional group had a meeting at the Savoya castle hotel in Ráckeve, Hungry.
Many more photos from the meeting can be found on flickr
On January 24th Got Social Media? (a conference about communication) was held at the Houston Technology Center. Some Big.first.name Nametags were in action...
Many more photos from the conference can be found on flickr
Florian Görsdorf from the RubyUserGroup Berlin printed 420 big.first.name nametags for the recent Bratwurst-on-Rails event. Congratulations to RUG-B for organising such a successful opening event for RailsConfEurope 2007.
I was there and took some photos...
Many more photos from the event can be found on flickr
Markeys branding recently held one of their Afternoon Seminars featuring some great big.first.name nametag action.
(images link to full size images on flickr with attribution)
View the full set of photos here.
Ben did some big.first.name nametags for railscamp07
(images link to full size images on flickr with attribution)