New site lists and sets-up local events
June 9, 2006 by Mike Wendland
A lot of events - concerts, author readings, cultural gatherings - happen locally that we wish we knew about ahead of time so we could have planned to be there. A new site called Eventful is hoping to make that easier.
Its main functon is that of an events search site and right now, the site is filling up with Detroit-area happenings, listing upcoming concerts and the like in a big online calendar. But it’s also a place to share events you know about.
There’s even a tool called Eventful Demand in which anyone in any city can create a request for an event. When a demand is created with multiple requests, the Webste promises to “go to bat and try to make that concert, sporting event, ballet, etc. happen in that city,” says spokesperson Hunter Haas.
I just tested the site out & thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mike,
Glad to hear you found Eventful.com. Hope you’ll start some Detroit-area demands for events you’d like to see happen!
- Brian (founder of Eventful.com)
p.s. Who’s Hunter Haas? Never heard of him.
There is another GREAT site with stuff to do in the six county metro Detroit region.
The site is http://www.GreatStuffToDo.com
It is thorough and complete and searchable by all kinds of different criteria.
Say you have relatives coming to visit in July and you want line up some things to do while they are here. You could look up the dates and get everything that is happening or you could look up only those there are kids friendly.
I have discovered and attended dozens of events I would not otherwise have known about.
Try it! You’ll like it!!