Do you run events in order to fundraise for your organisation?

Jade McKenzie recently ran an astoundingly successful movie night fundraiser through Eventarc for her non-profit organisation.  When we say astounding, we mean 400 tickets sold in under a week!  We thought all our customers might benefit from understanding how Jade was able to pull this off, so we asked her for some tips.

Can you tell us a little about the Warwick Foundation?

The Warwick Foundation is Australia’s first and only organisation that supports young adults aged 18 – 40 years old on their cancer journey. Our main program is called ‘Mates In My Shoes’ where we link the …

In so many ways, it is easier than ever before to use social media to promote and announce your fundraising event. But the more difficult tasks are those of engaging and holding people’s attention.

Today, internet users are regularly asked to sign petitions, join mailing lists and attend events for this charity or that social justice campaign. The task of breaking through apathy is today matched by the task of engaging people beyond superficial actions.

Social media – with its potential for dialogue, immediacy and ever-expanding networks – is an important part of establishing a sense of meaning around fundraising events and amplifying …

Just a quick note to let you all know that when you request a feature, we really do listen! One of our most requested features is now live, with event organisers able to copy an existing event with a single click.

Just choose the event you wish to copy in the left hand side tree, and then on the summary tab choose “copy. It’s that simple!

Did you know that it took us just 5 hours to write, test and deploy that feature into the live install of Eventarc? We started it Tuesday morning, and it was live by Tuesday afternoon. It is possible we are more excited by …

A few weeks ago we rolled in a number of cool new features to Eventarc, making the service even more powerful for event organisers.  There is only one thing we forgot to do, and that was tell anyone about it!  In our defence, we were somewhat preoccupied with our trip to SXSW in Texas.

Now that we are back down under and fully recovered from the jet lag, here are a few of those features that you have already had access to for the last 3 weeks!

New Dashboard View

We have updated the information available on your Eventarc dashboard to make it cleaner, clearer and more focused on the important information.  You now have immediate access to tickets …

Adobe held their Refresh Roadshow 2010 in Melbourne yesterday, and it seemed to be pretty well attended by the Melbourne design and development community.  We were fortunate enough to be invited to demonstrate our product and engage in a bit of friendly Q&A during the morning keynote.

Our product is built using Adobe Flex, so it gave us the opportunity to demonstrate some of the awesome features and explain why it was the best product choice for us.  Flex really has given us the ability to develop quicker and with higher quality, given the interface we are trying to produce for our customers.

Thanks …

Did you know that by using Eventarc, your customers can help to promote your event for you? We recently added a social media icon set to the confirmation page of every event, allowing your ticket buyers to promote and talk about your event via their existing networks.

A great example of this in action is the use of Twitter for the 2010 Mother’s Day Classic. Online registration for this event is driven by Eventarc, and users can promote the fact that they have signed up by “tweeting” the event.

Both @AmyLeeBent and @ReneeBelsey are getting into the swing of it!

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You may have heard already, but Eventarc will be in attendance at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. We are all very excited at the opportunity, and cannot wait to meet some of our international customers and friends.

Why are we going?

Good question. Actually, we have been selected to attend the festival as part of a Victorian Government Trade Mission. The mission is organised by our friends at Portable, and funding is thanks to the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development.

Only six companies were selected, and we are honoured and excited that Eventarc was one of them.

What is the SXSW Festival?

Well, in their own words:

SXSW Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the …