Event Calendar Content Management System

Experienced in event CMS

Imagination Corp has gained significant experience in event calendar content management systems (CMS), primarily through the company's role as the Manager of the Tasmanian Online Events Calendar.

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Our experience has taught us that there are unique requirements for an events calendar CMS, compared to a regular CMS.

Top recommended features for an event CMS

The top 17 features for a high quality event calendar content management system are:

1. An event title as a separate field from the event description.
2. A brief description field that is 160 characters in length, the standard SMS or text field length - this is a summary that could be included in a mobile phone or cell phone text.
3. Date range functions that can automatically populate from one day events, multiple day events and events with weekly, monthly, bi-monthly annual, biennial events, as events that occur for example on the first and third Saturday of every month.
4. Each unique event has a dedicated web page.
5. Fields for important event details like opening times, parking details, price for adults, children, family and concession, disabled access, vantage points, phone, email and web contact details.
6. Allows the publicly displayed contact to be different from the organising body or the event promoter, eg this might be "The Box Office".
7. Has a separate tickets field which can be linked to online ticket vendors.
8. Allows images and multimedia files to be uploaded with the event listing.
9. Allows a PDF or Word version of a full event program to be uploaded with the event.
10. Has hidden keyword tags to allow for unique spelling variations such as St Pats, St Paddies, St Patrick's, Saint Patrick's etc.
11. Allows users to allocate pre-defined categories to the events.
12. Has high quality search with word stemming and "did you mean" suggestions.
13. Is linked to online mapping and online direction providers.
14. Completed events expire automatically, but are watermarked "this event has been completed" and not removed from the Calendar - this allows for higher link integrity when backward links are provided to the page.
15. Allows for registered users to be able to enter events - a social networking system.
16. Has provision for human quality assurance editors to check all content added by regular users and edit any content accordingly.
17. Has reporting functions to allow users to report on event listing sets including any combination of date, period, event type, post code, zip code, price and etc.

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