The Local Life

In the spirit of keeping an open line of communication with both our clients and our users, we’re going to start updating this blog alot more whenever we release new features. This week we released a few new features, with a bunch more soon to come.  The key releases we’ll focus on here are some updates to the way the event calendar works, and how events are displayed in “Whats Happening”

The Whats Happening section is a major feature for our upgraded businesses. When a business has an event at their location, our software automatically associates the event, with that business, carrying over the Google Map, the logo, and most importantly posts the event in the “Whats Happening” section on the homepage. The Whats Happening section has been programmed to only show events which are upcoming with in the next 7 days, and randomly shows 4 events drawn from the pool of our customers events.

In order to have your event show in Whats Happening, you must have an upgraded account, your event must be with in the next 7 days, and you must be logged in as the account owner. Of course, as always any event added to our calendar will continue to be free for everyone. We want to maintain the best possible calendar while still providing our upgraded clients an awareness advantage by placing their events in the Whats Happening section, with their business’s logo.

We will soon be adding new modules showing featured events, and upcoming events across different places on the site. As our calendar grows, and we add more events in more categories, we will constanly improving usability and functionality of the calendar.
Cheers,

- Jamie