Without any doubt, the single most complimented feature on the Orb has been our event calendar, which allows you to see events on the day they occur represented by their default flyer image.

But wait! That's not all, hovering your mouse over the flyer typically exposes a fly out with the details of your event, and clicking on the flyer takes you to your event page. Even better, for those of you who never noticed it the calendar typically shows multiple events where applicable, and allows you to scroll through all the events available on that day. Some pretty nifty stuff if we may say so ourselves.

So we decided to take our event calendar to the next level by allowing you to create a concise version of an event and even upload a flyer -- all of this, without leaving the calendar page. When you're done, "presto", your event magically appears on the calendar. If all of this sounds too good to be true, then don't take our words for it, click on this link -- http://www.eventorb.com/calendar to check it out for yourselves.

As always, happy promoting!

We've added a few new features that should go a long way in improving your event promotion experiences on the Orb. As usual, all of these new add-ons have come directly from many of you who currently promote your events on the Orb.

Profile Videos
Previously, the only way you could upload your event videos to EventOrb was if you created an event first. Obviously, this can be a bit of an obstruction sometimes when you just want to upload a video without having to create an event for it. We have saved you the extra step of having to create an event before uploading videos, by allowing you to upload videos directly to your profile. 
 
What makes this even better is that, not only do you get to upload your videos with ease, but you can easily choose to assign your video to an event later on if you like. Videos can now be moved from your profile to an event, from an event to your profile or quite simply, from one event to another event.

RSVP
We gave our RSVP system a makeover to make it more useful to you. Previously visitors to your event page could just 'tag' an event to indicate whether they were going or not going. We have changed this system of tagging an event to RSVPing the event instead. Now, alongside indicating whether they are going or not, visitors can also leave a comment as well. To make this even cooler, once visitors RSVP your event, you get an email notification that lets you know about it. 
 
Best of all, we've added a spanking brand new set of tabs to all your event pages. The first tab shows the comments and Event GPA ratings that visitors have left for your event and the second tab shows who has RSVPd your events and the comments they have left. Of course, you can quite simply set your event to private to make these visible to only those whom you choose to give access to.

Multi-Photo Upload
We were recently subjected to intensive finger wagging and eyebrow raising from a few of you, expressing your disapproval of the fact that you had to upload your photos one by one for your event. We understand that this could use some huge improvements. We hope to add an ActiveX control in the future that allows you to select multiple photos you want to upload from your hard drive and upload them in one big batch. 
 
For now, we've added three more fields to allow you to upload four photos at a time for your events. Hopefully that improves things enough until we deliver an ActiveX solution to issue of multiple photo uploads.

Well, that's about it for now folks. Even as you read this our developers are working arduously on the next set of feature enhancements. Hope you enjoy the new features.

As always, happy promoting!

Just when you thought you'd seen enough new features being added to your favorite event promotion website for 2008, we pulled another magic trick out of the hat. This time, we've unleashed a full featured discussion board for the hard working boys and gals in the event promotion business.

Who doesn't want to know how much money other promoters are making, or which venues guarantee you a sell out crowd or even how to land lucrative sponsorship deals for your event. Well if you're like me, then you want to know all of the above and then some. Check out the event promoter forums at http://forums.eventorb.com.

The forums use the same login and password you used to sign up for the rest of the site, so there's no need to create a new account to join in the discussions. Just login and let your voice be heard. Enjoy!

A Better Search Experience
To allow you to search our databases for events based on keywords, we've taken away the various filtering options, making them available only on the search results page so that you can start with a broad range of results and narrow them down according to your preference.

Easier Profile Access
Many promoters kept looking for their profile pages after logging in, so we provided you with a drop down menu containing some key links to your profile.
 
More Social Bookmarking Options
We've added a few more options to where you can bookmark your events. We've added a link to MySpace, Facebook and Stumble to allow you to spread the word about your event to an even greater audience.

Profile Dropdown Menus
We've purged your profile pages of the dreaded static menu it previously had, replacing it with a sleek, quick and easy dropdown menu, providing you quicker access to your profile pages and sub-pages.

last but not the least.....(drumroll)

Introducing EventOrb.de - Guten Tag Deutschland!!
Although the majority of promoters who use EventOrb are located in the US. EventOrb has incorporated the neccessarry technology that makes us able to make our site available in just about any language there is, for any country there is. We are excited to welcome Germany as the first country outside the US that this initiative has been carried out for.

Enjoy!