some thoughts to discuss..Events Sites which have listings of public events.A lot of sites people think of as "social media" these days are culturally closer to the model of an email discussion list (as in free-form discussion between people who have "joined a list") than somewhere people would go to look up "whats on this weekend" and play more of a role for discussion about an event and the sharing of stories, photos, etc during and after the event than they do in letting people know about a future event.To find events outside their known social connections people would go to sites that have listings of public events - events sites, gig guides, etc (some of which have also been based on a user-generated content model for more than a decade)**** "user-generated content" is not new. ****For a historical perspective look at the use of usenet, bulletin boards ans email discussion lists in the 80s and early 90's - predating the "web" and setting the cultur

about time!

Microformats Blog: Facebook Adds hCalendar and hCard Microformats to Millions of Events

Tips for event promoters with websites:

If you are going to publish public events on your own website

make your markup meaningful! ... make it clear to both machines and humans what is what... - use this:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar

anywhere you publish your events.

... or post your events somewhere that does it for you.

Event listings on spraci.com are marked up in hCalendar (they have been for years), and spraci's feed aggregator can read hCalendar

For spraci listings you should also specity what city it is in - use "geo" and "hCard" under "location".

You may have noticed some new features on spraci. Blogs are now themeable (you can change the look of your blog easily - go to "blog design" to change your blog settings). New admin page There is a new "Dashboard" page to help you manage your own content on spraci which shows your most recent blog posts, events and forum posts with links to all the forms where you can post and edit your content. User Groups have been added. You can now create a group which other people can join with its own forum and a combined blog of all group members' blogs. (with rss feed)

If you are the moderator of a group (you are the moderator of any group you create), you can set the forum to be "open" (anyone can view it, users who are logged in can post, like on the other forums)

or "closed" (only people who have joined your group can view its forum or post to it)

Look for the "Groups" link in the forums section or go to http://www.spraci.com/groups to sta

You will soon have some new methods for adding your events to listings sites like spraci.com thanks to the use of

microformats /

I've had a look at the wordpress plugin.

I think I could set it up so that when an event is posted to a blog via this plugin it is recognised as an event and posted to the event listings under the correct date, categories, city, etc.

In simple terms:

The use of microformats like hcalendar could provide lots of interesting ways for people to syndicate data such as event details, locations, contact details, etc to to other sites using standard blogging software while still keeping the data in seperate machine-useable fields.

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