Event Software

What is the difference between an event script and event software? Scope. There are hundreds of small event scripts that allow you to simply add event data to your website, but if you are serious about event publishing you need powerful event software.

For a detailed list of promotion tools please visit the Helios Calendar promotions overview.

Easier Event Publishing

The easiest way to get things done is through collaboration. Helios allows you to share the workload of managing your online calendar with multiple administrators. Each account can have customized access, to fit each users role in your event publishing process.

Public event submissions can make managing your online calendar easier, but only if your event software makes them easy to approve or decline, keeps you spam free and lets you know when new submissions arrive. Helios does this by offering you:

• Advanced CAPTCHA and Spam Prevention: Keeping spammers from bogging your calendar down with bogus events.
• New Submission Notices: Automated emails tell you about new submissions, with an overview of the event.
• Pending Events Queue: All submitted events are held as pending until you approve or decline them.

Manage locations separately from events and edit, delete or merge them with just a few clicks, easily keeping all your events up to date. You can also add new locations by saving them from submissions by your users with new events.

Flexible event recurrence allows you to add an event once but publish it for many dates. Easily create event series for events spanning multiple days or related events occurring on different dates.

Better Event Promotion

Helios Calendar publishes events to more channels and has more automated event promotion features then any other online calendar.

• Your Website: Helios Calendar is a very user friendly, feature rich online calendar.
• Mobile Devices: Cellphones, PDAs, iPod Touch, PSP, any device with a mobile browser can access your events on Helios Calendar's mobile version.
• Eventful®: Using Helios Calendar and the Eventful API you can seamlessly publish your events to the best Web 2.0 events community while publishing them on your own website.
• Other Websites: Using Helios Calendar's JavaScript syndication other websites can list your events driving traffic back to your calendar.
• RSS Feeds: Web browser, email client, instant messenger, feed syndication site, whatever tool your users prefer Helios takes the events to them with RSS 2.0 compliant RSS feeds.
• Dynamic User Interaction: With Helios Tawc, Helios Calendar comes to life on Twitter.com (the webs most popular micro-bloging service) talking to your users about it's events, it's features, and replies to their comments. This dynamic, automated interaction develops user loyalty to your calendar and your events ensuring more repeat visits.

The best part is all of this is automated. All you need to do is add events as you would using any calendar, fill out title/description/date/time/etc and Helios does the rest of the work for you.