Better Event Promotion
Helios Calendar is a promotions powerhouse, delivering a comprehensive suite of event promotion tools unlike anything available
in a simple online calendar. Not only will publishing your events be easier then ever with Helios Calendar, but
far more effective.
RSS Feeds - Helios Calendar provides advanced support for syndicating your events via RSS 2.0 feeds.
Preset feeds include: All Events, Newest Events, Billboard Events and Most Popular Events. Your site visitors
are also able to create their own unique feed for categories and/or cities of their choice.
Microformats - Support for Microformats hCalendar & hCard is included in all event details allowing your
event content to be imported by any script/application/site that supports the parsing of Microformat encoded data.
Live Clipboard - Helios Calendar allows your site visitors to copy your events and paste them into any
script/application/site that supports Live Clipboard. In addition, Helios Calendar administrators can
use Live Clipboard to quickly and easily duplicate events from within the admin console, or to add events copied from another site or application.
JavaScript Syndication - Commonly referred to as Stickers, Magnets or Widgets, Helios allows your visitors to use simple JavaScript code to syndicate your events on their site with links to your calendar, increasing exposure of your events and generating traffic to your site.
Event Subscriptions - Helios supports iCalendar subscriptions for events and locations. iCalendar subscriptions
can be used by many personal calendaring clients including: Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning.
iCalendar/vCalendar - In addition to subscriptions, Helios supports iCalendar & vCalendar event downloads allowing your visitors to save your events to their personal desktop calendars.
Personal Web Calendars - Users of Yahoo & Google calendars can save events directly to their personal web calendar with just a click.
Eventful.com Integration - Helios Calendar integrates the Eventful® API to allow you to seamlessly publish your events to both your own website and
to Eventful.com simultaneously. Helios Calendar allows you to take advantage of the web's best event centric social
network by submitting your events with your own custom signature and a link back to your online calendar exposing your
events to a whole new audience.
Mobile Site - Helios comes with a WAP 2.0 mobile online calendar that allows users to browse and search events using any mobile browser that supports XHTML-MP 1.2. This includes browsers available on many popular PDAs and Mobile Telephones. The mobile site can also be used in conjunction with a .MOBI domain for mobile branding and easier direct access.
See HeliosCalendar.mobi for a sample. Ready.mobi rated 4.94 out of 5, click here for rating summary.
Helios Tawc - Helios Totally Automated Web-based Communication,
is an automated promotion feature that allows Helios Calendar to write a personal micro-blog at twitter.com.
Helios Tawc automates the promotion of your online calendar, it's features and (most importantly) it's events.
It includes the ability to leave personalized replies for users following your Helios Calendar on twitter,
dramatically increasing user loyalty, and draws in traffic by linking directly to your online calendar. The
posts made by Helios are contained within a script that can easily be edited and customized,
giving your Helios Calendar it's own unique personality with no programming required.
For detailed information about working with the Helios Tawc script visit the Helios documentation.
Email to a Friend - Visitors can promote your events via Email to a Friend. Recipients receive a personalized message (including up to 250 characters of text written by their friend) with a link to the event on your calendar.
Social Networks - Helios Calendar includes links to over forty (40) of the most popular social
bookmark/content sharing sites. With just a click on the icon of their favorite site your visitors can
instantly submit your event and promote them all over the web.
Event Newsletters - Your site visitors can sign-up for the categories they are interested in and you can send newsletters by selecting the date range. You can optionally build customized HTML templates and save them for later use to dress up your newsletters.
Event Syndication
RSS Feeds - Helios Calendar provides advanced support for syndicating your events via RSS 2.0 feeds.
Preset feeds include: All Events, Newest Events, Billboard Events and Most Popular Events. Your site visitors
are also able to create their own unique feed for categories and/or cities of their choice.
Microformats - Support for Microformats hCalendar & hCard is included in all event details allowing your
event content to be imported by any script/application/site that supports the parsing of Microformat encoded data.
Live Clipboard - Helios Calendar allows your site visitors to copy your events and paste them into any
script/application/site that supports Live Clipboard. In addition, Helios Calendar administrators can
use Live Clipboard to quickly and easily duplicate events from within the admin console, or to add events copied from another site or application.
JavaScript Syndication - Commonly referred to as Stickers, Magnets or Widgets, Helios allows your visitors to use simple JavaScript code to syndicate your events on their site with links to your calendar, increasing exposure of your events and generating traffic to your site.
Event Downloads
Event Subscriptions - Helios supports iCalendar subscriptions for events and locations. iCalendar subscriptions
can be used by many personal calendaring clients including: Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning.
iCalendar/vCalendar - In addition to subscriptions, Helios supports iCalendar & vCalendar event downloads allowing your visitors to save your events to their personal desktop calendars.
Personal Web Calendars - Users of Yahoo & Google calendars can save events directly to their personal web calendar with just a click.
Distributed Event Publishing
Eventful.com Integration - Helios Calendar integrates the Eventful® API to allow you to seamlessly publish your events to both your own website and
to Eventful.com simultaneously. Helios Calendar allows you to take advantage of the web's best event centric social
network by submitting your events with your own custom signature and a link back to your online calendar exposing your
events to a whole new audience.
Mobile Site - Helios comes with a WAP 2.0 mobile online calendar that allows users to browse and search events using any mobile browser that supports XHTML-MP 1.2. This includes browsers available on many popular PDAs and Mobile Telephones. The mobile site can also be used in conjunction with a .MOBI domain for mobile branding and easier direct access.
See HeliosCalendar.mobi for a sample. Ready.mobi rated 4.94 out of 5, click here for rating summary.
Word of Mouth
Helios Tawc - Helios Totally Automated Web-based Communication,
is an automated promotion feature that allows Helios Calendar to write a personal micro-blog at twitter.com.
Helios Tawc automates the promotion of your online calendar, it's features and (most importantly) it's events.
It includes the ability to leave personalized replies for users following your Helios Calendar on twitter,
dramatically increasing user loyalty, and draws in traffic by linking directly to your online calendar. The
posts made by Helios are contained within a script that can easily be edited and customized,
giving your Helios Calendar it's own unique personality with no programming required.
For detailed information about working with the Helios Tawc script visit the Helios documentation.
Email to a Friend - Visitors can promote your events via Email to a Friend. Recipients receive a personalized message (including up to 250 characters of text written by their friend) with a link to the event on your calendar.
Social Networks - Helios Calendar includes links to over forty (40) of the most popular social
bookmark/content sharing sites. With just a click on the icon of their favorite site your visitors can
instantly submit your event and promote them all over the web.
Event Newsletters - Your site visitors can sign-up for the categories they are interested in and you can send newsletters by selecting the date range. You can optionally build customized HTML templates and save them for later use to dress up your newsletters.
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