Provide an events calendar for your community.

Ways to provide a new community calendar - or enhance an existing one.

One of the things Publicdrum was designed to do is to combine the events from many organizations into one calendar.

Many groups do this today:

Visitor Bureaus, Chambers of Commerce or Tourism agencies provide a calendar to inform visitor's and residents about the events in their community.
Clubs may want to 'roll up' the events of their branches into a consolidated calendar.
Enthusiasts may want to to gather events pertaining to a topic into one calendar.
A Publicdrum user may want to 'Cross Promote' - build public awareness of their work by introducing others doing something similar.

Interested in community calendaring?

Watch a video: What is a Community Calendar.

Watch a video: How to build your Community Calendar..

Topics

Enhance your current submission process. (read more)

Free.

Publicdrum provides a data sharing service dedicated to event data. We make this data available for free to anyone who will present it to the public.

You can select and use anything you want - there are no fees or ads. Our objective is to help individuals and small organizations - and they rely on outlets like you to reach the public.

Public service

We believe it is in everyones interests to help outlets cut costs and provide better service to their readers.

We can help gather the data you need. (read more)

One the challenges of offering a calendar is to obtain the needed data.

If you currently have an Events calendar on your website, you probably provide a web form and ask people to submit their event information.

Often people don't do this, or do so irregularly -
and you end up either chasing data or offering an incomplete calendar.

Contributors certainly want to be on your calendar - but simply may not have time to fill the web forms for all the newspapers, web calendars or other outlets.

An alternative resource.

We resolve this by sharing. People put their event data in a single place - and you can select what you want for use in your calendar.

Simple - efficient - effective!

Can I search the database - see if there is anything I can use? (read more)

Surf the database.

The easiest way is to use our basic search page. (Notice part 4 - you can choose from several data formats.)

Additional Information:

Learn more about searching the database for event data.

Add yourself to our media list - get a weekly summary of events matching your requirments. (read more)

Shared Media list.

Like our event data, our media list is a shared resource. Adding your contact information and submission requirements can increase your visibility to people making news.

Once a week we match upcoming event data to your submission requirements and send a summary email. An easy way to make sure you haven't missed anything - and having everything in one place can speed your fact checking.

Learn more about getting a weekly email of event data matching your requirements . (See if anything missed your web form).

I currently have a calendar - how can you help? (read more)

Supplement your current submissions.

There are many ways you can used the data at Publicdrum - from something as basic as surfing the database to as sophisticated as integrating our data into your existing publishing process.

Use shared data rather than requiring submission to your web form.

Consider using Publicdrum to off load the acquisition of event data - and focus instead on accomplishing your objectives.

Our mission is to work with individuals and small organizations putting on public events.
We help them learn how to promote more effectively and to get their event data widely distributed.
They enter event data into ONE web form - sharing allows you to select and use anything you want.

You can used this shared event data to supplement that submitted via your web form - or source your data entirely from a shared public resource. Either way you save both time and cost.

Have your developer look at our API - or contact us for specific suggestions. There is no charge for any of our services.

I don't have a calendar (or want a new one) - how can I get one. (read more)

Offering a Community Calendar: three steps.

First, register at Publicdrum, select an automatic calendar and place it on your website.

Next, introduce people in your community to Publicdrum. We have lots of ways to save them time - plus you can display their events on your website.

Finally, select the organizations you want to display. As soon as you select their name - their events will show up on your calendar.

After that, the only maintenance is add new organizations as they begin using Publicdrum - or remove the ones you no longer want to carry.

These calendars are open source, there is no charge for their use. Same for the event data - contributors enter it in hopes lots of outlets will display it.

Additional Information:

Learn how to use automated calendars to display your selected event data.
Learn more about aggregating (combining) events from many different groups.