Sarah Lacy, author of “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0″ recently announced a multi-city book tour.  In her own words: “I’m looking for places that have a thriving entrepreneur scene  and a cool indie book store or bar that would sponsor the event. […] I want to make sure I’m picking the best cities where there’s true demand for a fun event with real substantive conversation and debate about the state of Web entrepreneurship across the U.S”  Sarah will be making an appearance in … Continue Reading

On Tuesday of this week, in the Cabbagetown section of Atlanta, a speeding car driven by one of the city’s top emergency services officers plowed into the storefront of a non-profit pottery studio. Many pots were broken. The studio is operated by Cabbagetown Clay and Glass Works “Atlanta’s non-profit artist cooperative”. In their own words: “This is devastating to us in regards to sales and usability of our studio and we are reaching out to our community to join us at our fundraising event to help us get through this.” To help rebuild, the Cabbagetown Clay and Glass Works is … Continue Reading

The West Village in New York City is far from the greenest place on earth. But, thanks to the efforts of Futurehood, a NYC-based non-profit that uses outdoor events to drive awareness of important community and environmental issues, it’s going to get a little bit greener. As part of a program called “GELL” (for Greenroof Environmental Literacy Laboratory), PS41 is slated to acquire the first full green roof on a New York City public school. Described as a planted oasis, the 22,000-square-foot roof will provide a laboratory for the elementary school students to study plants and nature, and will also help keep the school cool in summer … Continue Reading

The Democratic National Convention kicked off this week and political events of all shapes, colors and sizes are selling out across America. Convention enthusiasts in Texas will be coming together in impressive numbers at “convention watching parties” this Thursday to see Barack Obama accept the Democratic Nomination and “network with beautifully accomplished individuals in a relaxed environment while enjoying cocktails with an appreciation for great music, great people, and art.” In Washington DC, a voter registration and canvassing initiative is mobilizing people from the metro DC area to help find and register Obama voters throughout Virginia. Elsewhere in Virginia, a … Continue Reading

Knowing where your customers come from is the key to successful online marketing. Without this information, the online marketer is blind and unable to invest his efforts in the most rewarding tactics. Eventbrite tracking links are definitely worth checking out if you plan to promote your event from multiple online or email sources. You can use tracking links to measure the hits and registrations sent from your blog, your newsletter, your buddy’s blog, your Twitter updates, what have you. To make tracking links, just add the unique description of your choice to the end of your event URL. For example http://www.eventbrite.com/events/1234567/anything or … Continue Reading

One of the most powerful and popular features in the Eventbrite promotional toolbox just got easier to use and even more powerful. Eventbrite event holders have long enjoyed the ability to send mass email reminders to their attendees — either to people who’ve already registered for an upcoming event or who attended any one of their events in the past. Email marketing is a key driver of event success, and a great way to foster community between events. The only limitation is that you had to remember to send them, lol. Well, we’re pleased to announce that mass email messages can now be scheduled … Continue Reading

Classic Rock sound collides with the state of the art in digital audio production next month, as legendary producer Eddie Kramer hits the road for a nine-city tour. Kramer, who produced for rock immortals Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, will be showing the “kids” how to use Apple Logic Studio and Waves plugins to create the sounds of the sixties. In their own words: “Logic Studio is Apple’s comprehensive suite of professional tools, providing musicians with everything they need to create—in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Waves vintage models bring the character and warmth of classic gear … Continue Reading

Spark Reproductive Justice Now is a rad non-profit espousing good messages and doing good things in the Atlanta, Georgia area. In their own words: “SPARK Reproductive Justice Now fosters a dynamic, collaborative model of leadership, collective action and discourse for reproductive justice throughout Georgia and the South. SPARK collaborates with communities to build and sustain a powerful reproductive justice movement throughout Georgia and the South. We use creative grassroots strategies to build knowledge, shift power and advance the reproductive justice discourse.” Right on. Sex, Wine and Chocolate is Spark’s 2nd annual sex-positive cabaret fundraiser event. “I’m really excited about this because too often, it seems … Continue Reading

Eventbrite users may have noticed the presence of barcodes on their confirmation emails for the last several weeks. This was Phase 1 in the development of a barcode-based attendee registration system that will ultimately allow event organizers to “check-in” attendees on-site using a basic webcam.
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One of the more interesting events to skitter across the Eventbrite radar screen in a few days is FlavorTripping. In their own words: “Flavor Tripping is an ongoing series of Bacchanalian food tasting smackdowns that occur about once a month, beginning in February ‘08 in NYC and SF. Our events are smallish affairs held in an undisclosed location […] The first series of tastings center on miracle fruit — a cranberry-sized West African berry that that numbs your sour and bitter tastebuds for a couple of hours after eating it. That means that everything that used to taste sour now tastes sweet. Fo’ reals. It’s like a candy … Continue Reading