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One of the common activities or tasks offered by many different freelancers, professionals, small business owners and especially, virtual assistants, is planning and setting events and meetings for their clients. today, we’ll provide a quick view of some useful online tools that will make this event planning process a little bit easier. Now, you might need to select the most accurate and useful tool depending on the event and things you want to achieve from this activity. Here’s the quick view of these 17 useful online event planner services:

Bantora

Bantora is the place for connecting like-minded people in the coder / developer / planner community and making events happen. If you are looking for fresh ways to share your ideas, get support for existing ones or better still, create new ones, Bantora might be for you.

Bantora provides you with the necessary tools and resources to get an event going and keeping it going once the event is over. Share knowledge through the Bantora Planner Community, plan and discuss in blogs and connect with its social networking features.

Visit the Official Website: http://bantora.com/

Pogby

Pogby is the first and only web solution to provide event planners and suppliers with real-time venue availability and the ability to reserve and book a venue for a special event. The first-ever venue booking engine, coupled with sophisticated search and planning capabilities, meets an untapped need within a multi-billion dollar event planning industry.

Pogby.com will be the premier distribution channel for venues to list and market their services effectively on line.

Finally, Pogby.com introduces the only on-line event-planning community, fostering venue and supplier awareness, affinity, partnerships and expert reviews associated with the experience of planning an event.

Pogby provides the ability for suppliers to distribute their assets and venues to market as well as manage and confirm actual bookings. Pogby is the first website that gives vendors control over their inventory, budget, lead generation and performance. Pogby makes it simple for planners to book events at your location and provides a robust on-line solution for managing your customer relationships.

With Pogby, event planners can search, check availability, book unique venues and associated suppliers automatically using the first to market on-line tools such as:

* View venue availability and event calendar
* View event packages and amenities available
* Make an actual guaranteed booking and receive a confirmation

Visit the Official Website: http://www.pogby.com/

Activity Brain

Activity Brain is a free and unique tool to help you schedule your events.

One of the greatest features offered is the opportunity to log on Activity Brain with your Facebook account and be able to send your event information to all your friends and colleagues listed in your friends list.

Activity Brain offers you manual event creation, giving you all the control you need to create and organize your everyday events. Clubs, teams, and other groups with regularly occurring events, such as meetings and practice, can conveniently create repeating events that will monitor attendance and send out event updates and reminders.

All events have a dedicated event page where everyone involved can view details of the event, RSVP, comment, invite more friends, and view upcoming events if the event is recurring.

Another great feature is the Brain Event Creation. Let the Brain help you figure out the best time! The Brain will provide date and time suggestions for your event based on your friends’ schedules. Just select a suggestion and create the event!

Visit the Official Website: http://www.activitybrain.com/

Centerd

Center’d is a new site that combines a local search tool with an event and organized event-planning section that helps you connect with many other people.

The company creator has define this site as “the only site on the Web that provides an integrated way to manage all the core elements of local planning: picking a place, agreeing on a time, selecting service providers, sending invites, managing volunteers, hosting and communicating.”

Center’d does this by focusing on three categories:

People
Connect to people you trust, and get their opinions and information to help you find that perfect place or make successful that successful plan.

Places
See what the crowds think by seeing ratings and reviews from across the web, or find out what your trusted friends think.

Plans
Easily invite friends, find out where everyone wants to go and when with place and time voting, empower volunteers to sign up for tasks, and stay on top of it with reminders and notifications

Visit the Official Website: http://www.centerd.com/

Atomeet

Atomeet is a free service that helps you organize your parties, outings or any kind of events. In a few clicks, you can create your event’s homepage, invite your friends, organize your guest list and discuss the event all together.

Why Atomeet?

* Something that is fast & easy to use
* Open to everyone. No account, no password to remember
* One page that has all the information on it: location, date, guests
* Be able to invite everyone easily and let them confirm their presence by a simple click

What are the main features?

* Create your event in a few seconds
* Locate your event
* Invite your friends
* Import your contacts
* Real time guest list

Visit the Official Website: http://www.atomeet.com/

BestPartyEver

BestPartyEver is a social network that helps people find and share: Party Ideas, Special Event Vendors, and party planning advice and information to help make their next party, the best party ever. Online Party Planning Tools make it easy to setup an event, manage vendors to hire, monitor a budget, create invite RSVP lists, and create and manage task lists for the upcoming event. BestPartyEver also has business listings more indepth than you would find on partypop, and tons of user submitted of party ideas, unlike those found on party411.

What can you do on BestPartyEver.com?

* Personalize your profile
* Search for Party Ideas, Recipes, Friends, and Special Event Professionals to help/inspire you.
* Add anything you find that you wish to save to your basket.
* Create your own party in the “Party Planning Center” by setting up a date and time, event type, vendors to hire, guest list, budget, and task list.
* Reference items you saved in your basket for inspiration and add them to your event.
* Blog about your event or event related topics that interest you.
* Follow the activites of your friends, and make new ones.
* Create your own party ideas, and recipes to share with the community and your friends. Inspire others!.

Visit the Official Website: http://bestpartyever.com/

MyEventBid

myEventBid is the most innovative auction site currently available on the web. By focusing solely on the party and special event industry, mYeventBiD is able to provide businesses with a unique way to reach consumers while also making it possible for consumers to search for the best products and services available.

myEventBid provides businesses and individuals with the opportunity to put new and gently used party or special events items up for auction. Service providers such as photographers, videographers, DJs and event planners may also put their services up for auction. By providing businesses with the opportunity to create a virtual storefront and by making it possible for them to participate within our community, mYeventBiD hopes to provide its members with a wide variety of reputable services and products to select from.

myEventBid is more than just a place for buying and seling items, it is also a networking tool that can be used by anyone interested in event planning. Whether you are a business that is trying to forge a relationship with your target market or someone who is simply looking for party planning tips and advice, our community link makes it possible for you to make valuable connections. By taking advantage of the option to upload videos and pictures within the community, members can also show off their special events and businesses can demonstrate their products and services.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.myeventbid.com/

When Is Good

When is Good is an online meeting organizer that allows you to schedule meetings, events or any given activity with a great simplicity. When is Good allows you to set different possible days and times for your events and share the event and schedule with everyone involved to confirm your time with theirs and set the best day and time for yur activities. No sign-up form or password to choose is needed.

The When is Good service as you currently see it is completely free and will be staying that way. When is Good is also planning to add some great premium features for a small annual fee.
Recently, When is Good has released their beta option to sync your events with your iCal calendars.

Visit the Official Website: http://whenisgood.net/

Bistrola

Bistrola is an online service that takes care of making everyone equally happy when it comes to coordinating a get-together. How? Simple: every meeting participant to the get together fills in his personal preferences and Bistrola sums everything up and suggests the best meeting places. No more of these meeting bullies (i.e. folks-who-think-they-know-what’s-best-for-everyone but get you to the wrong places) – At Bistrola everyone is accounted equally and for once – a get together place to meet suits the group perfectly!

Bistrola allows you to set your new events providing the occasion, the place and date, the opportunity to receive votes from all the people invited about the place(s) and date(s) provided, send notifications about the events (reminders and updates), and provide recommendations about restaurantes and other placed in your city search. All the people invited can raise their opinions and rank the details provided for the event (place, date, etc).

Visit the Official Website: http://www.bistrola.com/

Doodle

Doodle makes it easy to find a date and time for a group event. Doodle is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation.

Doodle helps finding suitable dates and times for group events, e.g., an appointment, a conference call, a family reunion, etc. Doodle is particularly easy to use – and passes the “grandma-test”.

In addition to scheduling events, Doodle also supports polls in general. That is, groups can conveniently decide on options other than dates.

What can you do with Doodle?

Schedule an event
Such as a board meeting, business lunch, conference call, family reunion, movie night, or any other group event

Make a choice
Among movies, menus, travel destinations, or among any other selection

Visit the Official Website: http://www.doodle.com/

GoodInvitation

Goodinvitation is free online tool that allows you to create a poll or an invitation, as often you want. Create interactive invitations with flash or audio trailer presentations for your friends, colleagues and clients. You can create polls to decide what date is the correct one and get feedback and comments from your invites.

Try the Movie trailer invitation, where you get you get to put phrases together in hundreds of different combinations and hear the result voiced-over what appears to be the opening to an epic film. Have fun and create the ultimate in unique, and sometimes side-splitting, invitations!

Visit the Official Website: http://www.goodinvitation.com/

Presdo

Presdo is the world’s fastest event scheduler. Instead of lots of back and forth emails, texts, or voicemails, collect everyone’s input in one place, and let Presdo show you the best times to pick from—fast. Use Presdo for: meetings, movie nights, business lunches, study group sessions, conference calls, or any group event!

With Presdo, you can:

Make an event. Enter a phrase. Presdo figures out the who, what, when and where. Give one or several times, or even a time window.

Check with guests. Collect time preferences from your guests. They refine your time suggestion when replying to your invite.

Pick the best time. Quickly see the best times from the replies. Pick the best time, and Presdo notifies your guests of the new time.

Presdo allows you to plan the next movie night, business lunch, study group session, or any group event. Enter a simple phrase to create an event, then let Presdo find out what times are best for you and guests.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.presdo.com/

AnyVite

Anyvite is the next generation in event creation. It leverages today’s technologies (mobile, IM, SMS) and the idea that less is more, to enable people to quickly and easily invite their friends to events.

Anyvite strives to be the most straight-forward, easy to use service for creating online invitations. We believe that the user experience is above all the most important part of the service, and are continually working to improve it. We hate banner ads and have never subscribed to the “service as a billboard for advertisers” approach. We’re small, nimble, and can make changes, build new features, and fix bugs at the drop of a hat. We think that customer service makes or breaks a company and we’ll drop everything, day or night, to answer support emails and fix what’s wrong.

Visit the Official Website: http://anyvite.com/

Socializr

Socializr is a new web service offering free online event invitations, and innovative ways to share event and party information with your friends.

With Socializr you can:

Create free customized online event invitations
* Your guests can RSVP without registration
* Your invitations will not be cluttered with ads
* Customize your invitation with music, videos, and more
* Add Flash widgets such as slideshows or chat rooms
* Use our designs, design your own, or share designs with other users
* Import your address book from Evite

Share events with your friends
* See what events your friends are attending
* Share event photos with your friends
* Send events to your phone
* Share events on Facebook
* Integrate with Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and more

Promote your events
* Create free organization profiles
* Promote your events virally through friends of guests
* Use our list management features
* View detailed event statistics
* Extend your event listings through the web with RSS feeds and Flash widgets

Visit the Official Website: http://www.socializr.com/

Which Date Works

WhichDateWorks was created with the goal of making it easier to make plans with friends and families. WhichDateWorks is a simple, hassle-free planning solution for all the events in your life.

You can use WhichDateWorks when you plan:
* Dinner party
* BBQ
* Birthday party
* Holiday party
* Family reunion
* Guys / Girls night out
* Bachelor / Bachelorette party
* Vacation
* Weekend getaway
* Summer trips that never seem to get planned…
* Fundraiser
* Study group
* Babysitting schedules
* Sports team practices
* and much more…!

WhichDateWorks is FREE, simple, and easy to use. No registration/sign up required!

Visit the Official Website: http://whichdateworks.com/

PurpleTrail

PurpleTrail is a brand new way to organize and manage parties, get-togethers, events and meetings. With it’s fresh perspective, PurpleTrail brings together some of the best features and experiences to help you easily manage your event. We’ve created a short video tour that will show you all the basics of PurpleTrail.

According with the Official Website, PurpleTrail is the only service that gives you free invitations, ecards and announcements with no ads.

With PurpleTrail you can:

* Personalize the invite the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of design or easily creating your own. Click on the image below for a quick tour.
* Your event gets stunning looking online presence.
* Send invites over email SMS and Facebook.
* Easily import your contacts from your current addressbook with Address Book. You can organize these contacts in a group for ease in sending invites.
* Track guest invitations and their responses. Track when email is opened, web page of event visited, RSVP done and view total guest response summary.
* Complete control over your event and event reports for staying up to date on the events.
* Choose from numerous modules and select those that fit your event needs.
* Build excitement around the event through the event message board,event photos and event videos.
* Plan meetings and events that repeat periodically.
* Forget about ads, even more because it is a 100% free service!

Visit the Official Website: http://purpletrail.com/

Pingg

pingg is an invitation creation and event management site. Pingg brings style, functionality and personality to events you plan on the web. With pingg, hosts can create stylish online invitations, choose how to send their invites – online (via email, social network or mobile text) or print (pingg will print, stamp and mail the invitations for you), customize their own event web page and manage all guest communications from one location. With its stylish designs, integrated print and online features, personalized event web page and easy to use tools, pingg will change the way you create and plan your event on the web.

Pingg’s key features are:

* Design: Create & Customize. Pingg offers you pingg Gallery, Designer Series, Custom Design and Pingg Plus+ to help you chose the best design for your event plans and invitations.
* Online Invitations & Ecards
* Print Invitations & Cards
* surroundSend & Social Networks. It allows you to send your invitations and event plans via Email, SMS, Web, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
* Guest List Creation & Management, RSVP Options
* Personalized Web Page – Available With No Ads
* Gift & Charity Registries & Event Funds
* Guest Communications
* Event Reporting & Newsfeed
* Premium Services

Visit the Official Website: http://www.pingg.com/

What tool do you use for your events?