MarkThisDate Blog http://blog.markthisdate.com New Features, News and Updates Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:05:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Press releases and financial calendars in your agenda http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/28/press-releases-and-financial-calendars-in-your-agenda/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/28/press-releases-and-financial-calendars-in-your-agenda/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:23:03 +0000 Rutger http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=59 Thanks to our partnership with Hugin, one the biggest distributors of corporate news in the world, you’re now able to receive press releases and financial calendars of over 1800 companies world wide in your iCal, Gcal or Outook. If you are a serious investor what better than to find the next shareholders meeting or the latest press release in the place where it is most logical …. in your calendar. For example the AKZO Nobel press releases

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/28/press-releases-and-financial-calendars-in-your-agenda/feed/ Fashion at MarkThisDate http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/24/fashion-at-markthisdate/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/24/fashion-at-markthisdate/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:02 +0000 Rutger http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=55 The 23rd of Juli marks the first steps of Markthisdate into the fashion arena. In collaboration with the Amsterdam International Fashion Week MarkThisDate offers the complete public programme of the AIFW on the AIFW website and MarkThisDate.com for download purposes. Aimed at the international fashion press corps the service makes it easier to attend the AIFW events at the right time and place.

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/24/fashion-at-markthisdate/feed/ Nu.nl adds MarkThisDate calendar widget to Tour de France special http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/09/nu-nl-adds-widget-markthisdate-to-special-tour-de-france/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/09/nu-nl-adds-widget-markthisdate-to-special-tour-de-france/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:43:40 +0000 Wilfred http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=52 logo tour.nusport.nlLast weekend was the start of Tour de France. Together with tour.nusport.nl, one of the specials of Nu.nl, we launched a special Tour de France widget so visitors of tour.nusport.nl can add all stages to their calendar. The ‘special’ thing is that we extended our widget. It now not only shows an add-to-calendar button but also the next 5 stages. This number of stages that are shown is arbitrary of course. We can also show 10, 15 or all stages for instance. The greatest thing of this extended widget is that we now also unlock the events itself and open the door for:
a. companies and websites that have events but do not show them on their website at this moment; and
b. companies that want to add other than their own events to their website

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/07/09/nu-nl-adds-widget-markthisdate-to-special-tour-de-france/feed/ MarkThisDate Wins Publisher’s Pitch http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/06/11/markthisdate-wins-publishers-pitch/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/06/11/markthisdate-wins-publishers-pitch/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:21:35 +0000 Bas http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=51 Today at the Dutch National Publisher’s Conference, MarkThisDate presented itself as one of five innovative publishing concepts. This short ‘pitch’ turned out to be a competition which, in all modesty, we just had to win. ;-)

Not only did the panel of professionals immediately recognize the power of Calvertising and the commercial promise of MarkThisDate.com, but in the end the entire public chose us as the most (potentially) successful concept.

Of course the “grand prize” was nothing more than recognition of our work, which is always appreciated. Cheers!

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/06/11/markthisdate-wins-publishers-pitch/feed/ Always know when your favourite artists play with Festivalkalenders.nl http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/05/19/always-know-when-your-favourite-artists-play-with-festivalkalendersnl/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/05/19/always-know-when-your-favourite-artists-play-with-festivalkalendersnl/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 12:55:34 +0000 Wilfred http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=49 Today we launched Festivalkalenders.nl, our second spinoff aimed at a specific target group. In this case our target group are the visitors of the major summer festivals like Pinkpop and North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and Belgium. In most cases these festivals last for days with a lot of different stages on which artists perform.



Of course you don’t take your laptop to a festival but when you sync your electronic calendar with you mobile phone as i do, the complete program of a festival is added to your phone in the blink of an eye and always with you during the festival. Quite handy if you would ask me!

Check it all out at www.festivalkalenders.nl

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/05/19/always-know-when-your-favourite-artists-play-with-festivalkalendersnl/feed/ Add Public Calendars as a guest http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/28/add-public-calendars-as-a-guest/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/28/add-public-calendars-as-a-guest/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:25:00 +0000 Wilfred http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=47 As of today you can add calendars to MarkThisDate without registering first. Just send us the publicly available calendar address and the calendar will be added under the user ‘guest’. If you want to add calendars by submitting your events manually or you want to get credits for you calendar entry you still have to register first.

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/28/add-public-calendars-as-a-guest/feed/ MarkThisDate nominated for ‘Gouden Inhaakmedaille’ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/24/markthisdate-nominated-for-gouden-inhaakmedaille/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/24/markthisdate-nominated-for-gouden-inhaakmedaille/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:09:30 +0000 Wilfred http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=42 Strating (Active Marketing) is again organizing the so called ‘inhaakawards ‘or ‘hook on awards’ around the major sporting events in 2008, the Olympics in Beijing and UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. An expert jury judges on originality in the categories Newspapers/Print, Radio/TV, Internet and SP/Instore. We’re very proud to anounce that we are nominated for a ‘Gouden Inhaakmedaille’ in the category Internet for our spin-off Mooiesportzomer.nl. On this website visitors can very easily add all match schedules of the three major sportevents of this summer (EURO 2008, Tour de France and OS) to their calendars. MarkThisDate is nominated next to companies like Nuon, Lotto en Rexona. If you like our spin-off go to the website click on ‘Inhakers EK 2008′ and vote for Mooiesportzomer.nl.

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/24/markthisdate-nominated-for-gouden-inhaakmedaille/feed/ Launch of Mooiesportzomer.nl http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/14/launch-of-mooiesportzomernl/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/14/launch-of-mooiesportzomernl/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:13:30 +0000 Wilfred http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=37 Last Friday we launched a nice spinoff of MarkThisDate. For EURO 2008 in June, the Tour de France in July and the Olympics 2008 in Beijing in August the event schedules can now also be found on Mooiesportzomer.nl.

We are planning on implementing more of these theme websites. For instance one with the line ups (including start en end times and stage locations) of the summer festivals in Holland. If you have suggestions for other theme websites, or want to start a theme website in collaboration with us just contact us or respond here.

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/14/launch-of-mooiesportzomernl/feed/ Partnership with Tuxx http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/07/partnership-with-tuxx/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/07/partnership-with-tuxx/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:38:30 +0000 Wilfred http://blog.markthisdate.com/?p=35 We’re pretty excited about our partnership with Tuxx.nl. Tuxx offers business related information and helpful documents to professionals. They also provide lots of dates which can now also be delivered to calendars. For Tuxx this means they can get their dates into the hart of the computer of their users, namely their electronic calendar. For us this means that we get access to an important user group, namely the business user.

]]> http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/04/07/partnership-with-tuxx/feed/ Relaunch http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/03/28/relaunch/ http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/03/28/relaunch/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:30:18 +0000 Rutger http://blog.markthisdate.com/2008/03/28/relaunch/ As you might have noticed we changed our look and feel completely. Red and beige are now blue. In the last year we have been working on our back-end (’the engine’) and now it was time to overhaul our front-end. With thanks to the guys over at Metalab we are very happy with the result. Besides the changed color:

  • we took out our homepage which was a useful but unsuccessful experiment and went back to the list view
  • we added icons to calendars
  • we made it easier to share calendars either via our widget or your favorite social network
  • we added business functionality to facilitate professional calendar distribution
  • we expanded our network through which we distribute calendars
  • we added suggestions to the sidebar for easy navigation

Please let us know which features you like or dislike.

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