You may find it helpful to know that we take nightly backups of our system, which makes the website unusually slow, around 8:30-9:30pm Pacific, 11:30pm-12:30am Eastern. Everything still works, but if you find it kind of pokey, that’s probably why.
As always, if you have problems, suggestions or other issues with FullCalendar, we want to hear from you! Email support@fullcalendar.com or use the feedback page:
http://sfbayarea.fullcalendar.com/ec/util_feedback.cfm
FullCalendar is now an official San Francisco City vendor. We’re looking forward to spreading the word about lots of fun and interesting things held by the City and County of San Francisco!
If you’re involved with the performing arts community in the LA area, come to LA STAGE Day!
Saturday, May 16, Cal State LA, $20-$30, or free if you volunteer
http://lastagealliance.com/lastageday/
FullCalendar will be there – please stop by our table and say hi!
It was wonderful to meet so many great people yesterday at the Theatre Bay Area annual conference! TBA is a very active organization, working in lots of different areas to improve the theater scene in the SF bay area. If you are or want to be involved with the stage, check them out:
Some places we post events accept listings for kids’ summer camps, and some have a different process for them. Where there is a different process, FullCalendar doesn’t submit them, as they often have a fee or require information outside of our normal posting process. Here are some places where you can submit camp listings directly:
Koddler:
http://www.koddler.com/article.aspx/details/2015-summer-camp-directory
Bay Area Family Calendar (from Parents Press):
http://www.campsbayarea.com/camp-submission-page.html
Bay Area Parent:
http://bayareaparent.com/content/advertise.html
We add more as we find them. Here’s to summer!
Just a quick update to provide a selection of the new places we’ve been adding to our big list over the past few weeks:
Chicago: Blue Sky Innovation/Chicago Tribune, Chicago Kids
New York: New York Music Daily, NY Daily News, Nerd York City
Phoenix: KTAR.com, azfamily/KTVK
San Diego: NBC7 San Diego
Seattle: West Seattle Herald
SF Bay Area: 510 Families
Washington DC: BackPage N VA, BackPage S MD, Brightest Young Things, Washington Life
Multiple metros: Racked, Small Business Trends
As always, please let us know of places we may have missed, and we’ll do our best to add them in time for your event.
Hope this provides an idea of the types of events we help publicize: dance, music, tech, networking, health, benefits, family, and many more!
We have updated the website so that it doesn’t use cookies. This was causing some people to be signed out inadvertently if too much time elapsed between pages. Now there is no time limit for any page. This is what the red warning message was about, on the sign-in page – it’s now gone.
The one exception is that we’re using cookies to try to keep you signed in between visits. Depending on your browser, and its settings, this may or may not work. Worst case, you’ll have to sign in each time.
If you’re on a public computer, make sure to click ‘sign off’ when you’re finished.
We have tested this exhaustively, but if you see any issues, please let us know at support@fullcalendar.com . We really appreciate your help.
One thing to try, if needed: if you get an error, try a “hard refresh” on the page. Windows: Hold the Ctrl key & press F5. Mac: Hold down Shift and click the Reload toolbar button. This should allow you to get the latest content from our website, and skip any content your browser has saved in its cache from prior sessions.
For most, if not all, this change will be transparent, just giving you more time between pages.
Thanks for using FullCalendar and our best wishes for success with your events.
Here’s an update on the comings and goings of some national event calendar websites.
Zvents
Zvents, owned by eBay’s Stubhub, is now transitioning from a general event site to focus on arts and entertainment, more in line with Stubhub’s ticketing business. The Zvents site itself will be shutting down this fall. We’re told Stubhub will have an event calendar but we don’t know details. In the meantime, Zvents is only approving new venue submissions manually and individually, and due to their change in focus, we’re only submitting new arts & entertainment venues.
Eventful, SpinGo and others
Zvents has been providing the calendars for quite a few newspapers, and those have been transitioning to other providers, including Eventful and SpinGo. We have been posting to these already, and will continue to post to new service providers as we find them.
http://www.zvents.com/
http://www.stubhub.com/
https://www.spingo.com/
http://eventful.com/
Upcoming
In a twist, the discontinued event site Upcoming, purchased by Yahoo in 2005 and discontinued in 2013, is being resurrected by its original founder, Andy Baio. Andy created a Kickstarter campaign to gauge interest and easily blew past his fundraising goals. FullCalendar contributed and will hear updates as it progresses. Its current plan is to launch mid-2015.
http://upcoming.org/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/the-return-of-upcomingorg
Tonight FullCalendar is on new versions of everything – website software, database and blog software. We’ve done a lot of testing and as far as we can tell, the important things work perfectly. Event listings are entered and sent out. Please let us know at support@fullcalendar.com if you have any problems.
You may see smaller errors in places – images, etc. Please feel free to let us know about them but we are also checking things thoroughly to make sure absolutely everything came over correctly.
If you tried us earlier tonight and got a “work in progress” message, thanks very much for your patience. And to everyone, thanks for using FullCalendar and our best wishes for success with your events.
Here are a couple roundups of services used by event organizers, from Idealware, a company that helps nonprofits learn about various software options (not just event-related). They include thoughts on how to choose a service as well as a summary of some popular choices. While aimed at nonprofits, most of the information would be useful to for-profits as well.
Ticketing systems:
http://www.idealware.org/articles/few-good-tools-ticketed-events
Registration systems (general admission):
http://idealware.org/articles/few-good-tools-event-registration-updated
Be sure to check the comments of the registration post – more services are mentioned.
Hope this is helpful.