Exciting New Changes with Public Events 3.0!
10/6/2005

We're happy to announce some exciting new changes in Public Events® as we launch Version 3.0.

This upgrade focuses primarily on station administrative functions, and provides more options for managing events, tracking on-air announcements, and offers viewing of venue and organization information during the event submission process. These enhancements are based on station feedback that we record and track. We measure success by your satisfaction with our products and services.

Venue and Presenting Organization Listing
The venue and presenting-organization pull-down list on the "submit event" form has been replaced with an alphabetized pop-up window. Now it's even easier to view venues and organizations in the database and select them for an event. We also recommend checking this list periodically to delete duplications in the admin tools as part of your regular administrative maintenance.

Tracking On-Air Announcements
You can now mark events that were read on air using a new section added to the "submit event" form in your administrative tools. A check-box allows you to flag an event that was read, as well as add details--such as the time and day of the broadcast--into an accompanying text box. Search functionality enables you to search for events that were read on-air, view, and export that information. These new fields are strictly an administrative feature (admin and intermediate access level accounts only) and won't be visible to your site visitors.

New Icons for Highlighting Events
In addition to the three existing icons ("our pick," "member discount," "sponsor") we've added five more optional custom icon slots you can use to highlight events. You can upload and define the icons, and when activated, they will be automatically added to the legend appearing on your events pages.

Featured Events
We've added search functionality for featured events, allowing for easier scheduling. You can now check a box in the "featured event" tool and search only events that have been scheduled as featured events. This allows for easy viewing of the events you plan to feature and lets you determine the order in which they'll appear on your events home page.

Exporting Events
In addition to the "normal" and "tab-delimited" options for viewing your export results, we've added a third option that displays event information in a more compact, easy-to-read layout. As before, you can still choose fields you export and select the tab-delimited option for exporting to Excel, but now you can choose between a compact or a lengthier format (with headings) as the printable export layout.