The Lanyrd Blog

How to run an evening event

Have you ever thought you might like to run a series of evening events, but you weren't sure how to go about it? If you've got an urge to build a sense of community in your field of expertise, or if you struggle to contain your passion for knowledge and want people to share and learn with, you're probably a great candidate for becoming an evening event organiser.

Posted at 2:04pm on 21st June 2012 by Ellen de Vries and Natalie Downe

Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account

We've made an important change to the way Lanyrd interacts with your Twitter account: we no longer require write access in order to use the site. Instead, we'll ask permission to upgrade to write access only when you do something on the site that needs it.

Posted at 11:32am on 20th June 2012 by Jake Archibald and Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and Sophie Barrett and Tom Insam

Weeknotes: Istanbul and Ampersand

In which Natalie and Simon have an adventure in Istanbul, Sophie and Jake take a trip to the seaside, and poor Tom stays at home on his lonesome.

Posted at 2:31pm on 18th June 2012 by Sophie Barrett

Week notes: Roof tops, water coolers and Sass

We settled into our new office a little more this week, started work on some meatier long term projects and enjoyed some surprisingly sunny weather on our office's brand new roof deck.

Posted at 12:20am on 7th June 2012 by Natalie Downe

It's FRIDAY

In a desperate effort to return to a Proper and Normal universe, I'm going to try to actually do the Friday weeknotes blog entry on a Friday. It's crazy. But I have to try. As Jake managed to slip all the way into Tuesday (slacker) this means that I only have 3 days to talk about, but I'll try to pad it out with rambling as much as I can.

Posted at 10:08pm on 25th May 2012 by Tom Insam

Weeknotes: iOS apps, burly lumberjacks, & bockety arms

It's been a bit of a hectic week. We fled Castle Lanyrd and created a new upgraded base of operations a whole four minutes away, which we're lovingly calling Lanyrd:TNG. Rather than pay some burly lumberjack-shaped peoples to move stuff for us, we decided to "lumberjack up" and do it ourselves.

Posted at 12:09pm on 22nd May 2012 by Jake Archibald

New and improved: Lanyrd 2.0 for iPhone

Download our shiny new, improved iPhone app for instant information about events you're attending. Organising an event? Use our free app to keep your attendees up to date.

Posted at 3:07pm on 16th May 2012 by Jake Archibald and Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and Sophie Barrett and Tom Insam

Week notes: Adventures in Amsterdam, for one of us anyway

Jake has been entertaining attendees at Mobilism whilst the rest of us have been having a week of working on little bits and pieces.

Posted at 5:50pm on 14th May 2012 by Sophie Barrett

Week notes: Links, bullets and coverage galore

We've introduced a simple way of adding bullet points and links to content on Lanyrd. Plus, slides and video from RailsConf and The Next Web 2012.

Posted at 2:18pm on 1st May 2012 by Simon Willison

Weeknotes: improved session pages & speaker directories and upcoming iPhone design refresh

This week we Launched the official Digital Shoreditch schedule site and set up automated testing of our JavaScript. We rolled out some improvements to our session pages and speaker directories. I also have a sneak peak for you of some screenshots of our iPhone refresh and a bit more on our design process.

Posted at 8:48pm on 23rd April 2012 by Natalie Downe