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6/5/15: FullCalendar nightly backup timing

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

4/8/15: Summer camp listing places

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!

4/7/15: Spring Update – new places to list events

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!

7/2/14: Changes afoot at national event calendar websites

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

4/28/13: FullCalendar technology upgraded

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.

8/21/12: Review of ticketing and registration systems

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.