The Lanyrd Blog

Lanyrd Pro improvements, and a new $39/month plan for small teams

Since the launch of Lanyrd Pro last month the Lanyrd team have been working very hard to bring new features to both standard and pro users. Check out some of the great new things we have been working on.

Posted at 7:37pm on 20th May 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Get conference suggestions by email, now with smarter location filtering

Sign up for Lanyrd's weekly emails to get personalised event reccommendations sent straight to your inbox. We've added extra location filters to make it even easier to find out about events that are directly relevant to you.

Posted at 5:13pm on 9th May 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Introducing Lanyrd Pro, for companies that speak at and sponsor events

Today we're excited to announce our first paid upgrade: Lanyrd Pro.

We're providing tools for teams and companies that speak at and sponsor events, to help promote the events they are involved with and effectively plan their ongoing event marketing strategies. Facebook, GitHub and Heroku are just three of the fantastic companies on board for our launch.

Posted at 1:28pm on 11th April 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Meet us at SXSW and get pieces of flair for your lanyrd lanyard

Natalie and I will be schmoozing and mingling at SXSW Interactive this year - find us and get some flair for your lanyard.

Posted at 3:55pm on 5th March 2013 by Simon Willison

Going to SXSW Interactive? Retweet this!

We've made it even easier to add yourself to our SXSW Interactive attendee directory - just retweet this and let your friends know that you'll be at the festival.

Posted at 3:32pm on 5th March 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Get more out of SXSW Interactive 2013 with Lanyrd

For the third year running, we present Lanyrd’s unofficial schedule planner for SXSW Interactive 2013 in Austin. Going to SXSW? Read on. Not going? Take a look anyway!

Posted at 3:02pm on 27th February 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Build your event’s speaker list and schedule with Lanyrd, LinkedIn and Twitter

We’ve made it even easier to put together the speaker list and schedule for your event, with a completely new design for our speaker and schedule editors. If you can’t find a speaker on Lanyrd you can now create them a profile by searching Twitter or LinkedIn.

Posted at 1:32pm on 6th February 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Welcome, Alby Barber

Today we welcome Alby Barber, client-side developer and child television star, to the team here at Lanyrd.

Posted at 2:55pm on 21st January 2013 by Lanyrd Team

Use Lanyrd and LinkedIn to get more out of professional events and conferences

Sign in to Lanyrd with LinkedIn to get event recommendations (and more) based on your LinkedIn connections and professional profile. Also just launched: a new dashboard, a brand new homepage and a whole host of tools for better managing your Lanyrd profile.

Posted at 1:08pm on 26th November 2012 by Lanyrd Team

Lanyrd’s Big Move

Last week we pulled off two major changes to the infrastructure which runs Lanyrd, and both with no downtime - but what exactly did we do, and why?

Posted at 2:43pm on 13th November 2012 by Andrew Godwin