Tips on How to present your demo in DemoCamp

This article provides some important tips that you have to put into consideration when presenting your website at Demo Camp:

1. Early preparation. It is important to start early enough in preparing the presentation of your website, and it’s better to present it to your friends first and get some feedback.
2. Clearly explain what your website does. Many presenters spend their time without even explaining the main idea in their website. Remember that best website in the world can be described in a very short sentence. For example :
   • YouTube: Do you have a video and want to share with others? Register then upload the video…Share it with others.
   • Facebook: Register… Fill out your profile… Search and add old and current friends, add application you like to your profile.
   • Digg: liked a topic on the Internet? Cut and paste the link on dig website… People will vote for your article if they liked it.
3. Explain why we should use your website, what problem it solve ?
4. Avoid going into unnecessary details in your website, such as registration and filling the form on the website and other boring details. This will make your audience feels boring and fall to sleep later on. Focus on the points that differentiate your site from other sites.
5. Stay away from praising or criticizing the other website because it’s the audience who must judge them. Remember that the audience came to know about your site and the problems you are trying to solve.
6. It is preferable to make the audience aware of the time and money that your have spent in building your website, website goals and any other information that you see it’s useful to be ware of. If there is any confidential information, it is your right to unveil.
7. Avoid talking about the website future, because if the audiences are not convinced of what you have now they will not care for your future plans.
8. If you’ve been asked a question that you don’t know the answer for it, there is a lot of different ways to deal with such a thing, try to google how to deal with tricky questions.
9. Visit the location before enough time to get used to the place and to make sure that everything is ready (projectors, computer cables……etc) don’t leave anything for coincidence.

All the best

DemoCamp Dubai 4 Demos

Here’s the list of the 4 demos for DemoCamp Dubai 4:

• restate.ae iPhone application: restate.ae is a real estate portal for the city of Dubai, the guys behind it (SpinBits) created an iPhone application to make it easier to find properties on the go, get more information about neighborhoods and some news.
• StartUpArabia Database: StartUpArabia is a weblog dedicated to new Arab technology startups and services, StartUpArabia Database is a free directory of Arab technology startups, entrepreneurs and financial organizations that anyone can edit and enrich, will be presented by Moh’d Marwan Meddah.
• eMapia: is an online location based marketplace. Using eMapia, people can browse through the country they live in to find businesses/people who added items for sale. Using Google Maps technology, everyone can check what is available for sale in areas near them!
• w2task: is a web 2.0 task & time management web based software, where users can register online, create their own business (company) and projects, than attach efforts to them. In return the users will be able to track their own/team efforts and time spent on a particular project (time sheets) and invoice their customers (planned feature).

DemoCamp Dubai 4

The fourth DemoCamp in Dubai, United Arab Emirates will take place at the Radisson SAS in Dubai Media City on January 28th 2009 at 7:30PM. This will be the first DemoCamp of 2009, we are happy to announce that we were able to reserve the same room as the last event and will keep the format the same. If you want to attend the event, feel free to come over and invite people you think might be interested in joining DemoCamp.

We already have a few interesting demos lined up which we will announce in the next few days, but still have openings for a couple more demos. So, if you are working on an interesting web application and want to present it to some peers, just add it to the comments or contact us.

DemoCamp Dubai 4 is again organized by Argaam and SpinBits. We are opening the possibility of having a company sponsor the event; so, if you are interested in sponsoring, please check the sponsorship document and contact us.

Demos for DC Dubai 3

Here’s the list of the 4 demos for Dubai DemoCamp 3:   

• Jawaker is a multi-player online gaming site that is dedicated to card games from the Arab world. Jawaker, which means the plural of “joker” in Arabic, is built using Merb.
• Twffaha is an endeavor to promote recruiting women in the region. It is a job portal for women only.
• Untiny is a new service that given shortened URL, expands it to retrieve the original web address behind it.
• industrials Directory is an industrial search engine and locator that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier and locate them.

The format will be the same as the first two events, the presenters will give a 10 minutes - with 5 minutes for Q&A - presentation about their work, and will be available to answer any questions, receive feedback and share some thoughts after the event.

DemoCamp Dubai 3

The third DemoCamp in Dubai, United Arab Emirates will take place at the Radisson SAS in Dubai Media City on October 28th at 7:30PM. We took a break after the second DemoCamp in Dubai for the slower summer months and for Ramandan; therefore, we are happy to announce that we were able to reserve the same room as the last event and will keep the format the same. If you want to attend the event, feel free to come over and invite people you think might be interested in joining DemoCamp.

We already have two confirmed demos that we will announce in the next few days, but still have openings for a couple more demos. So, if you are working on an interesting web application and want to present it to some peers, just add it to the comments.

DemoCamp Dubai 3 is again organized by Argaam and SpinBits.

Swalif Cast in DCD 2

Darrb in DCD2

Logta in DCD 2

Wasfati in DCD 2

DCD 2 Venue

DemoCamp Dubai 2 will be in Al Nada Ballroom, 2nd floor in Radisson SAS hotel, Dubai Media City.

Looking forward to meeting you all.