Have you ever wanted to send a user to your event page rather than ours? Well, we have listened to your feedback and will release this functionality at the end of February.

This feature will specifically enable you to change the event page to one of your choosing. This link will propagate through the calendar and widget applications.

Ever wanted to add a calendar to Ning?



Well here is how you do it!

Here is the step by step:

In Spongecell:

1. Login
2. Click on "Create a Widget"
3. Click on "List View Widget"
4. Create a widget with a width of 502 pixels
5. Click on Publish
5. Copy the MySpace Source Code

In Ning

1. Login to Ning
2. Click on Manage
3. Click on Features
4. Drag a "Text Box" from the left hand side into the main layout on the right.



5. Click "Save Features"
6. Click on Main
7. In your "Text Box" section, click on Edit.
8. Copy and Paste the MySpace List View Code you just created!

Events can be tagged for tracking interactions of users and for API calls.

Add tags to your event when you first create it. Then, contacts that add themselves to your contact list while interacting with that event are automatically tagged with those tags.

Finally, when you send an email or SMS message to follow up on the event, you can easily reach the people who are most interested in that event.

Here is how you do it!

1. When you create an event, specify one of more tags.



2. Then, users view your event through one of our widgets, and decide to add themselves to your contact list.



3.If you view the new contact (in the Contacts tab), you will see that they have an 'auto tag' that matches the one you originally set on the event.



4. Then, when you send an email or SMS message, you can filter to send only to contacts tagged with that tag!

Using Tags and another feature called Contact Select Spongecell lets you send e-mail blasts to specified contacts with ease.

Tags:

1. Import and tag your contact list
2. Compose your email
3. When you reach step 3, click on "Filter" > "Tags" and then enter your tag. The field will autopopulate once the correct tag has been entered.
4. Select OK

Contact Select:

1. Import and tag your contact list
2. Compose your email
3. When you reach step 3, select "Select Specific People"
4. Click on the e-mail address on the left hand side that you want to send to. If you make a mistake just click the email on the right hand side and it will remove that email.
5. Once all your specified contacts have been selected click on Finished.

So how much can you really do with a Spongecell event page?

Here are some of our best examples!


Dante Fried Chicken - A One Year anniversary invitation


Cielo Club NYC - Layo and Bushwacka Party


Yari Film Group Film Launch


Purus Vodka Launch Party - Invite and RSVP

You can upload or import contacts in various ways. First start by going to the Contacts tab, then on the right hand side menu under "Quick Options" click on the upload/import method of your choice.

These include:

Outlook
Gmail
Yahoo
MSN
CSV
and
Copy and Paste

When uploading duplicates the system will warn you.

If you are uploading updated or "changed" information, the system will append any new information to the already existing contact.

Have you tried uploading a CSV and then found that some of the zip codes did not work?

Here is what you need to do to make sure that the CSV file you upload includes all the zip codes, including those starting with "0".

1. Select the column "Zipcode" in Excel
2. Right click on it and select "Format Cells"
3. From the cell type select "Text"
4. Click on OK and upload to Spongecell

The field type must be "Text" for the CSV file to retain the correct formatting.

Did you know that Spongecell lets you publish your events on other event sites. Thats right!

You can publish your event to Upcoming and Eventful with just a few easy clicks.

Login to Promote
Select the Event you want to Promote
Click on "Publish to Event Sites"

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Signup today and you can use 90 messaging credits to send e-mail or sms blasts!

https://spongecell.com/promote/websit...

Classic Calendar -

The classic calendar was the first product that Spongecell produced. Classic is a dynamic web 2.0 calendar mainly created for personal use.

Promote-

Promote lets you create and promote events easily across websites, email/SMS, blogs and social networks. You can also collect detailed information on how people interact with your events and how they spread virally. Spongecell lets you use this data to more effectively create and promote future events, and to follow-up with targeted messaging that enables you to do scalable, one-to-one marketing.

You have signed up, added events to your calendar and published the calendar to your website or blog. However you cannot see any of your events...Where did they go?

Have no fear...

By default the Sponge doesn't think its a good idea to share your personal calendar and events with the world, thats why by default we keep your events private.

To share selected events on your published calendars, open the event detail and set the "Viewable by" field to "Everyone (the World).

1. Goto http://spongecell.com/ and login.
2. Click on the event.
3. Under Event Publishing click on "Customize the event page for this event"
4. Select the options you want to customize.

--Hint:
If you want to put custom HTML into your event page, click "Enable Custom HTML Description" and then copy and paste your HTML into the event description box!

Spongecell uses tags in various ways.

-Contacts-
Use a tag - or - simple word to describe your contacts.

For example, if you promote to two groups of contacts, "Shakira" fans, and "Aerosmith" fans, then upload the contacts in two CSV files. When uploading the first file enter the tag "Shakira", and when uploading the second file, enter the tag "Aerosmith".

When you send emails and SMSes, the tags will allow you to target one group or the other.

Tags are useful at organizing many different lists and groups of contacts.