EventSpan Features
For event searchers (biz professionals, consumers, reporters, bloggers, etc)
- Search, view, share web event listings
- Search, view, share people bios (expert speakers and industry professionals)
- Search, view, share vendor profiles
- Subscribe to feeds, reminders, alerts (email, text message or RSS)
- Create and display various widget banners to advertise specific web events
- Find industry resource info
- Get modular content for third-party websites
- Post / Subscribe to RFIs to produce a virtual event (coming in Q4, 2007)
- Make recommendations of web events, expert speakers, and industry professionals
- Set up watchlists of online events, expert speakers, industry professionals, and web event industry organizations
- Add an online event to a calendar: Outlook, Google, Yahoo, iCal
- Send a web event listing to colleagues, by email or IM
- Print out a web event listing, in a user-friendly format
- Contact publicists, producers, speakers, industry professionals and vendors
For expert speakers
- Publish and manage your speaker profile in the Speakers Bureau
- Provide blog updates, upcoming online speaking engagements, and list your web events
- Promote your availability and fees for online speaking events
- Optionally, be randomly featured on the Eventspan homepage
- Tag your areas of subject matter expertise and be discovered
- Upload white papers relevant to your subject matter expertise
For web event producers, marketers, and publicists
- Post and manage your webinar or webcast event listing in a well-designed page within a focussed search website to increase awareness of and attendance at your online event
- Monitor event listing activity, such as the number of times an event has been recommended, watchlisted, re-sent via email or IM, syndicated through ad widgets, or clicked-through
- Manage and publish (and "unpublish") multiple event listings with easy database integrations of web events, speakers, sponsors, media contacts, etc.
- Get your event listing picked up by search engines, newswire services, and syndicate publishing partners
- Enrich your event listing with relevant content, such as speaker bios, sponsor information, producer information, white papers, tags, etc.
- Benefit from viral, social media tools within the event listing that allow viewers to share with their peers to increase awarness and attendace of your web event.
- Publish webinar and webcast event listings on your site through embeddable HTML code from Eventspan, in standardized IAB formats
- Pull from our XML/RSS feeds and publish on your site specific virtual event listings based on preferred category or keyword filters
- Integrate and customize all Eventspan content (event listings, speaker and professional bios, vendor zone content, etc) on your site with the EventSpan API (coming Q2, 2008)
For technology service providers
- Manage multiple web event listings for your event-marketing clients as a value-added service to enhance promotion and increase attendance
- Create and manage a company profile section within the Eventspan website to publish your company's content, such as web event listings that your company powers, white papers on producing online events, blog updates and news about your company, and key people profiles of professionals in your company who have expertise in virtual events.
- Publish "demo" event listings, featured on the Eventspan homepage, to showcase your technology and production services that power online events
- Integrate our API (available September, 2007) into your operations and automatically publish and promote your client's web events (and associated speakers and your own firm, etc.) on the EventSpan publishing and syndication platform.
For industry professionals
- Create and maintain a professional profile page of your expertise in the world of webcasts, webinars, and online events. Be discovered and communicate with peers for business development purposes in the realm of virtual events. Post your company's updates and list your favorite upcoming and recorded events.