Eventification Blog

A common request from event organizers has been to create a single landing page for recurring events. Eventification was built around the concept of recurring Events belonging to Groups. Users can change their email settings for each Event or for all instances of the Group’s Events. You can also auto-RSVP to Events if they are a part of a particular Group.

To give this concept of a Group more substance, there is now a page set up for each Group! Example: http://eventification.com/TechLunchSouth (and a short URL: http://evnt.us/gl)

The Group page features upcoming (and past) events and iCal/RSS feeds. The feeds make it easy for anyone to subscribe to all future Events from a Group without having to sign up for Eventification.

But who wouldn’t want to sign up? Having an account and getting personalized feeds & notifications based on your interests is awesome!

If you are an event organizer involved in one of these groups, go to the Group page and see if you already have an “[edit]” link next to the title. If not, contact Brian Shaler and he’ll get you set up!

Announcing the Eventification API!

Event data on Eventification is free and open for anyone to consume — currently without any restrictions or obligations. As a community resource, we hope others will utilize these capabilities and encourage others to promote their events using Eventification.

Honestly, the API is in the same state it was in December. I wanted to get a little further on it before announcing it, but I’ve finally decided to publish what’s ready. The documentation page strikes out the endpoints that are not ready and outlines all the features that are ready.

You can get all upcoming events based on tag, search, and/or location fairly easily, and have Eventification return an RSS feed, a JSON object, an XML tree, or an ICS/VCalendar subscription URL!

This week, a major new feature was soft-launched. For Eventification to be a true community resource, it needs to be community-powered.

When an event organizer creates an event on Eventification, there’s a vested interest in getting people to see it. That feeling isn’t there if the event is created on their behalf. In return for having someone create and promote an event page on Eventification, the web site should pay them back by empowering them to reach more people as easily as possible. With that goal in mind, Eventification will be getting more powerful social features, allowing members (organizers AND attendees) to share events with people on Eventification as well as push them out to other web services.

Because Eventification is a notification system in addition to a calendar, it’s important to have a level of quality control in place before events are emailed out to members. The system will surely change as the community and site grow, but for now, we have a team of moderators helping to make sure you get notified about the most relevant and useful information.

There are plenty of ideas, but feel free to submit your own ideas for Eventification at eventification.uservoice.com!

Announcing the Eventification Blog!

With a rapidly evolving application, it’s important to have a place to publish new features and updates. There is a great community supporting Eventification, and information has been getting around pretty effectively via Twitter, Facebook, and that newfangled social network “IRL”.

These organic methods of distributing information are great, but as a network grows, those methods start becoming spotty.