(openPR) - Munich, Germany – January 12th, 2011. amiando (www.amiando.com), a pioneer in online event registration and ticketing, announced today that it is global technology partner of the world-wide Social Media Week, which is the first event to use the brand new amiando event calendar widget. Social Media Week is a co-curated, distributed conference featuring hundreds of events taking place over the course of the week. This year Social Media Week will be simultaneously hosted in 9 cities around the world on February 7-11, 2011. With its new event calendar widget amiando enables the organizers to offer a comfortable scheduling and registration process for attendees: socialmediaweek.org.

A whole week dedicated to social media

Social Media Week (SMW) consists of events that include panels, product demos, parties, meetups and more, set up by companies in the media, communications and technology industry. It was first held in 2009 in New York City. In February 2010 Social Media Week took not only place in NYC but expanded to 5 other cities around the globe including London, Berlin, San Francisco, Toronto and Sao Paolo, followed by a second event in September in Los Angeles, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Milan. SMW 2010 attracted almost 17,000 participants across 450 events; nearly all of them were made available for free to attendees thanks to sponsorship from a number of global brands.

Social Media Week 2011

The first edition of the Social Media Week in 2011 will come to 9 cities around the world; New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Sao Paolo, London, Hong Kong and Istanbul on February 7-11. The organizers of Social Media Week decided to choose amiando as global technology partner responsible for the world-wide attendee registration. With a brand new event calendar widget amiando enables the organizers to offer a comfortable and professional registration for several hundred events. The registration opens today and tickets are available on socialmediaweek.org.

Social Media Week as launch partner of new amiando event calendar

With 9 cities and a few hundred different events available for attendees, Social Media Week 2011 is the perfect launch partner for the new amiando event calendar widget. This new scheduling and calendar widget allows event organizers to display all offered events, workshops or panels in a calendar format, making it easy for attendees register for different events and schedule all their appointments. This new widget is especially useful for events with a duration of several days and where attendees can register for single days and workshops. The event calendar widget can be used on amiando event websites as well as easily integrated into own websites via iframe.

“We are very proud to be global technology partner of Social Media Week 2011 and more than happy that our new event calendar widget enables the organizers to offer a professional registration process for several thousand attendees around the world,” says Felix Haas, CEO amiando.

About amiando
amiando is a pioneer for online registration and ticketing. Since its founding in 2006 amiando has become a leading software-as-a-service platform for professional events.
amiando’s products help event organizers reach a professional level of event organization that until now was only reserved for large corporations and event agencies. All tools are online-based and immediately available for use, no software installation required. Over 100,000 events worldwide use amiando, among them such prestigious names as Facebook, BMW, UNESCO, and Telefónica O2.
amiando has been awarded numerous prizes for its innovative products, among them the “Technology Pioneer of 2010” at the World Economic Forum, and the „eco Internet Award” as the best business client portal.

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