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ThinkMatch Adds Event Promotion Workspaces for Open Events

The new host workspace helps conventions, conferences, Meetup groups, community gatherings, and other open events spread the word online and at the venue while showing which outreach channels lead to participation.

Palo Alto, Calif. ยท September 21, 2026

ThinkMatch Event Promotion announcement showing posters, table cards, tracked sharing, and channel activity for open events.

Software995 Inc. announced Event Promotion workspaces for ThinkMatch open events, giving hosts one place to create promotional materials, share an event through multiple channels, and monitor the resulting activity.

After creating an open event, a host can choose Promote from the event review page. The workspace provides a full-size poster designer, a compact table-card designer, suggested social and email copy, and a dedicated link for an event website. Posters can be prepared in Letter, A4, or Tabloid format, and table cards can be prepared in several compact print sizes.

Each outreach channel receives its own tracked link. A poster, table card, social post, customer email, and event website can therefore lead to the same public event while retaining separate visit and participant attribution. Long promotional URLs remain behind QR codes or copy buttons rather than becoming part of the participant experience.

The workspace also gives the host a focused activity view showing joined participants, completed questionnaires, participants placed into groups, invited guests, recent activity, and channel-level visits and attributed participants.

The tools are intended to complement the systems an organizer already uses. A Meetup organizer can retain Meetup for discovery and RSVPs, a convention can retain its registration and session schedule, and a community organization can retain its existing website and email tools while using ThinkMatch for introductions, matching, private communication, and event-specific promotion.

Printed materials make the feature useful during an event as well as before it. Hosts can place posters near convention registration, conference session rooms, campuses, workplaces, or community entrances, while smaller QR cards can sit at networking tables, check-in desks, exhibitor booths, or counters.

Promotion tracking is scoped to the individual open event. Someone who follows a tracked link reaches the normal public ThinkMatch event page, and the event workspace reports aggregate visits and resulting participation for that channel.

ThinkMatch remains free for hosts and guests. Event Promotion is available for organizer-created open events and works alongside ThinkMatch's questions, compatibility-based groups, conversation starters, private chat, optional video, and in-person event experience.

"Helping people connect inside an event matters only if they first know the event is happening and feel invited to join," said Scott Rothstein, Architect at Software995 Inc. "Event Promotion gives hosts practical ways to spread the word before and during a gathering, then see which materials actually brought people into the experience."

About ThinkMatch

ThinkMatch is a common-ground-first platform built to change how people meet in real life. People can begin with a topic, story, event, or other shared interest, then find or create a small local Roundtable around it. Guests can answer event-specific questions, and ThinkMatch uses their responses to support more thoughtful introductions, compatible groups, conversation starters, private chat, and optional video before people meet in person. Hosts can also create free public or private events for parties, meetings, campus activities, conventions, community gatherings, and other real-world occasions. ThinkMatch's goal is to make meeting new people feel easier, warmer, and more intentional by giving people a meaningful reason to talk before they walk into the room.

Learn more about ThinkMatch

About Software995 Inc.

Software995 Inc. is a Palo Alto, California-based software company best known for Pdf995, the long-running PDF creation and document publishing suite with more than 50 million installations and millions of enterprise users worldwide. For more than 20 years, Software995 has built practical, affordable software for document creation, conversion, security, search, backup, FTP, imaging, and workflow productivity. The company's newer products include ThinkMatch, a platform for real-world introductions, events, matching, invitations, chat, video, and group discovery, and SearchWithin, a survey experience that helps people understand themselves through feedback from the people around them.

Media Contact
Scott Rothstein, Architect
Software995 Inc.
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