Upcoming event planning

Posted in on 16 July 2007 | Comments

I visit quite a few websites on a regular basis (or subscribe to their RSS feeds) but a website I am using more and more is Upcoming which is a social event calendar website that is part of the Yahoo empire. The website has been around for some time but it's only relatively recently that I have 'discovered' it.

Upcoming makes it dead easy to keep track of events, sign up for events, add events to your web or desktop calendar with a single click, make contacts and friends, and see what events your friends are attending etc etc. It all works really well.

It's also possible to add your own event and this provides a great opportunity for event planners, or anyone else, to publicise an event. Upcoming is great for this but I started to wonder how many people are missing out because they are not 'web-knowledgeable' enough. I talk to many people about websites and often come across blank looks when I mention this or the other website that I saw recently. Perhaps I am just a geek but I also wonder whether there is a two-tier society developing between heavy web users and people who do not use the web much or at all?

Maybe this is too 'deep' for a Monday morning? Anyway, if you want a great socal event planner website, try Upcoming.

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Top three newspaper websites

Posted in on 14 May 2007 | Comments

Once upon a time, there were rumours that the web would kill off traditional newspaper editions. This has not happened but, over recent years, broadsheet newspaper websites in the UK have started to take the web more and more seriously. This is reflected in their websites which are usually fine examples of how to organise and display a wealth of information and change it on a regular basis. Here's my top three UK newspaper websites.

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Twitter - what's it all about?

Posted in on 6 March 2007 | Comments [2]

Twitter is a website that has received quite a buzz. However, I must admit that it is not something that immediately says to me 'I must join'.

Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends.

Hmmmm. Sounds like the potential for a lot of trivia. More excuses for text messaging. I guess it depends on what type of person you are. For me, I think I have enough to do without texting 'Off to the shops now'.

Perhaps I am not seeing the full picture here. I'm always a bit of a 'late adopter' though.

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Free fonts from Urban Fonts

Posted in on 28 February 2007 by Clive Walker

Website: http://www.urbanfonts.com/

Urban Fonts is a fonts showcase website that offers free fonts, commercial fonts, and dingbats in an attractive, modern, blue and green website design. There's a slightly Web 2.0 look to the site with a familiar tag cloud of popular searches - and there are over 8000 fonts that you can browse, search, and preview.

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Email campaigns made easy

Posted in on 12 February 2007 by Clive Walker

Website: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

In recent weeks, I have been using Campaign Monitor to manage a small email newsletter for one of my own websites. I have to say I'm impressed. Campaign Monitor provides an easy-to-use interface which makes it a snap to set-up subscriber sign-ups from your website, import subscribers, design and import HTML and/or text content for the emails, and send campaigns. Best of all, it provides detailed statistics for each and every campaign you send.

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