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 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.

To see methods for syndicating events listings from/to SPRACI

go here: http://www.spraci.com/api/

A simple example for displaying spraci listings using Magpie RSS can be found here: http://www.spraci.com/faq/?task=show&item=api_rss_magpie

Feeds

Syndication

RSS

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