The exuberant atmosphere within the doattend team can be summed up best by quoting the memorable words of Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith of the A-Team;

“I love it when a plan comes together”

Over the last month, we’ve been busy working on the next batch of feature additions to our event registration service and we’re quite excited at the manner in which “Project : Help Event Managers More” is in the final stages, before being unveiled.

It’s one thing to be able to promote your event by informing your immediate network and individuals who’ve attended your events in the past, but another if you could have the larger public, across entire cities, search for and choose your event.

With the new additions, doattend event managers will be able to reach out to a much larger online yet filtered audience and thereby promote events on a greater platform.

We’ve tried to ensure that its simple & straight-forward for event managers to create and manage their events through doattend. We’d now like to help you in attracting more attendees, who are interested in your category of events as well as the locations in which these events are held.

More updates coming soon, so be sure to keep an eye out for some exciting news!

This week’s featured event is TEDxDelhi.

TEDxDelhi takes place on August 1st 2010 in New Delhi, India and is one of the many events organized globally under the TEDx program.

The popularity of TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design), a global set of conferences formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading”, spawned TEDx, a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

TEDxDelhi is a non-profit event organized by a young, vibrant team with a number of prolific individuals making up the list of speakers.

This week’s featured event is Sweet Charity 2010.

Sweet Charity, which takes place on June 21st 2010 in Washington DC, is a benefit jointly organized by The Heart of America Foundation, a non profit organization promoting children’s literacy and learning & Albert Uster Imports, a fine gourmet food company.

Now in its 9th year running, Sweet Charity brings together leading pastry chefs and chocolatiers who will be outfitting models with fashionable clothing, designed using some of the finest Swiss chocolate available.

The highly anticipated chocolate fashion show along with other fabulous chocolate creations are sure to capture the attention, and taste buds, of all those in attendance.

Proceeds from ticket sales will be used towards The Heart of America Foundation’s “Books from the Heart” program, which distributes books to needy children in the greater Washington area.

If you’re in the DC area on June 21st, be sure to savour the delights on display at Sweet Charity 2010. Register here.

This week’s featured event is The Ladakh Confluence.

The second edition of the Ladakh Confluence takes place between July 15 & 18 in the scenic and visually stunning surroundings of Ladakh.

A festival that fuses art, culture, music and nature into an unforgettable 4 day experience, the Ladakh Confluence  is a sought after event drawing in people from far and wide.

With an impressive list of artists forming the musical lineup and a host of initiatives aimed at promoting eco-friendly living, the Ladakh Confluence ’10 promises to leave a positive and lasting impact on those fortunate enough to attend.

So what are you waiting for? Click here to register now.

There are a number of events currently being powered by doattend that deserve recognition and we’re quite keen on drawing your attention to them.

Beginning Wednesday this week, we’ll be profiling an event on the blog, as part of our weekly Featured Events series. It’ll be a great way for you to find out more about an interesting event, possibly near you.

We’ll be picking events at random but if you have one that you’re managing through DoAttend and would love to have it featured, please drop us a note.

DoAttend now provides you with the ability to embed your event page’s ticket box on your website, complete with all tickets available for purchase/registration as well as the option to enter a discount coupon, if you have coupons set up.

Prospective event attendees can begin the event registration process directly from your website and then be taken to your event page’s registration form on doattend to complete it.

To access the embed code for your ticket box:
1. Login to your doattend account and select your event
2. Navigate to the “Ticketing” tab and click on “All Tickets” to bring up the tickets created for this specific event:

The Embed code will be automatically displayed below the list of tickets created. To have the ticket box displayed in a page on your website, merely copy the embed code provided and paste it into the desired HTML page.

For every event that you create on doattend which requires attendees to register, the embed code will be displayed within that event’s “All Tickets” page. (Please note : you would need to have at least one ticket created, free or paid, for the embed code to be made available)

DoAttend now provides you with the ability to create your own Organization URL; a single page listing all upcoming and past events that you’ve created through your event manager account.

If you create and publish events regularly, the Organization URL allows you to promote a single URL, rather than the URLs for the individual events that you create. This is particularly useful for event management companies or organizations which host events on a regular basis, as your visitors are able to view all upcoming events on a single event listing page.

To get started with setting up your Organization’s page, login to your doattend event manager account and click on “My Account” from within the dashboard. Under the familiar contact information, which you provided at the time of sign-up, provide a brief profile on your company/organization:

Once done, scroll down further to choose your unique Organization URL and upload your logo:

Click on Update, and you can then access the chosen Organization URL through your browser to view your own, personalized event listing page.

Send out the Organization URL in your newsletters, promote it on your website, tweet about it! Let your registrants and visitors know that they can keep updated on all your upcoming events by simply visiting your Organization’s URL.

AppVita, a site dedicated to highlighting the ever-increasing number of web-based applications, recently reviewed doattend. Here’s a peek at some of the great things they had to say:

“The feature-packed application has all the tools to let users create, promote, and track the guests who’ve registered to attend their events online”

“For busy event organizers and party planners, DoAttend is an amazing system that can streamline the process of planning major conferences and events”

“Rating : 5 out of 5 (wow)”

We appreciate the encouraging feedback and their detailed look at how doattend can assist in managing your events with ease.

Check out AppVita’s review of doattend.

As the event manager, you’ve played your role perfectly. The event’s a day away and ticket sales through your doattend event page have now closed. It’s now time for you to focus your efforts on the actual event and get ready to welcome all your attendees.

Fast forward a day.

It’s now event day and you have a flood of registration requests for tickets to the event, at the last minute. Ticket sales through the doattend event page are closed, but spaces are still available.

What do you do?

That’s simple. You make use of doattend’s “At Venue Registration” feature to register your attendees on the spot; right then, right there!

Login to your Event Manager Account, navigate to the Registrations tab and select “At Venue Registration”, to display a list of available ticket types – just as the attendee would see it had they visited your doattend event page. Select the quantity for the relevant ticket type, and hit Continue.

You’ll then be requested to fill in the registration form, on behalf of the attendee.

Right, attendee registered. Now what about payment?

Since it’s too late to accept payments via online methods such as credit card, at venue registrations would usually have to be paid for on the spot through traditional offline payment methods such as cash or cheque. Provide an offline payment reference prior to confirming the registration and once that’s done, you can choose to print out the attendee’s eTicket.

At Venue Registrations are added to the Completed Registrations Summary, so you can be sure that all registrations have been accounted for.

We’ve got a seat for you; so rest assured that we’ll ensure you have every opportunity to register an attendee for your event, even after ticket sales are closed online.

Payments collected through registrations at venue would carry the 1% doattend fee (offline payments), as per Doattend’s Pricing Structure.