Currently, we have empowered our users to share live updates (broadcast) their events live by sending SMS from their mobile phone.

However, we envision of a day when funpiper.com will be able to provide users with facilities of SENDING LIVE VIDEO FEEDS from their MOBILE PHONES to their event page during event.

Stay tuned!

Here is a scenario:

An event manager wants to promote his event on any website for FREE or by paying money. At the same time, he wants to provide various sponsors detail (title sponsors & associate sponsors) while displaying event information. All he will be required to do, post event on funpiper.com, create a quick widget and place it on the website. With this, he gets following advantages in following manners:
1. Promote his event
2. Promote his title sponsors
3. Get as many users join the event as possible as widget consist of join button

Once users join the event, he can then send him regular updates.

funpiper.com is working on more advanced features related to distributable widgets primarily in form of intelligent tracking and reward system.

Check out some of the sample widgets:

Orange Drop

Elegant Mix

Theme: Floral Frame




Theme: Elegant Mix




Theme: Pink Heart




Theme: Party Mix

1. Event Planning Platform: With latest release, users could collaborate and communicate about their events to their friends and family members by sending SMS invitations and messages from their personalized event pages for FREE. Invitees could respond to the invitations by sending RSVP in SMS from their mobile phones. Invitees can send their views and suggestions in SMS from their mobile phones. These messages will appear on the personalized event page. This feature could be used to broadcast the event live on the day of event when moderator and invitees send the live event proceedings from their mobile phones.

2. Event pages with Custom Theme: Each event page has a permalink and custom theme. This event page could be hosted on any portal by applying the custom theme. As this does not require any event attendees registration, any portal could use event mobile messaging and email platform from their portal by hosting event page. It works on SAAS Model.

3. Twitter Integration using Twitfunr: Funpiper brings live a twitter based service, twitfunr, that allows users to update every aspect of event planning on twitter while planning event on funpiper.com. http://www.funpiper.com/?Msg_Id=cHR5cGU9cGd1cGR0d3RyJg==

4. Catch ‘Em Live: All events could be broadcast live by all event attendees by means of SMS. These messages will appear on event page as well as Catch ‘Em Live page. http://www.funpiper.com/?Msg_Id=cHR5cGU9cGdjbGl2ZSY=

5. Watchlist: Events could be added in watchlist to be reminded later. One could keep his watchlist secret or make it public for others to see what one is attending.

6. Join online: Users could join the event online and stay informed as well share their views with others live! Works best for both public and private event.

Make your invitees feel special by providing them information in easy and effective manner. Plan your events & parties on funpiper.com.

We are working on an out-of-box event promotion tool seamlessly integrated with event planning tool which will enable the soc-cult bodies of all colleges to present better value-proposition to local & global companies and win sponsorship in a comfortable manner.

Event planning (invitations, colaboration) has been only a part of organizing successful events.
stay tuned! We are excited with the idea that our users will be able to present a killer value proposition to sponsors and get good sponsorship and enable extravaganza within the campus.

cheers!

We are working on a service offering which will take us closer to our ultimate objective, e.g., creating business opportunities for community at large and creating a vibrant community with sole focus on “fun”.

Securing Sponsorship for your Event - Annual Festivals

In college days, I remember of one thing that always kept us busy during our annual festival. And, this was about securing as much sponsorship as possible and enable extravaganza in all our events of annual festival.
And, this is still a problem inspite of  the fact that social networking and blogging platform such as twitter, wordpress etc has come up big time.

It has still been a case with many schools & colleges that they are unable to secure some good sponsorship primarily due to the reason that they are unable to bring great value-propositions for the sponsors.

Can we help these schools & colleges secure sponsorship by big companies by offering these big companies some real good value for money in terms of viewership, and eyeballs, and in turn, ensure extravaganza in their school and college festivals and have their festival a memorable one?

In the world of social networking, blogs, microblogs such as twitter etc, and mobile messaging, this is absolutely possible.

In coming releases, this is our sole focus. Come up with the killer service with great value-proposition and empower these institutions to secure some good sponsorship from big companies and have some real extravaganza in their annual festival.

Afterall, this is an age of IPL (Indian Premier League)! Extravaganzas could well be secured if value offered is really good.

Also, big companies will get some real targeted advertising which they could monitor and track!

Win-Win for both the parties!

Stay tuned!

When you authorize twitfunr for updating twitter while you plan events, you don’t share your twitter login and password.

Instead, twitfunr has adopted oAuth authentication which is in public beta by twitter. This does allow user to authorize external applications & services such as twitfunr to update twitter without the need of them sharing their twitter login and password with these appications.

What is oAuth?

OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows users to approve application to act on their behalf without sharing their password. More information can be found at oauth.net

Read about twitter support of oAuth authentication here.