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Acteva Partners With Rondavu, Adds Facebook Promotion Tools for Event Planners
| Source: Acteva
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - December 17, 2008) - Acteva, the leader in online event
registration, ticketing and payment management services, announced today it
is the premier event partner for Rondavu, the developers of the popular
social networking tool Party Buzz.
This new partnership allows event organizers to gain valuable exposure to
the Facebook community in two ways. First, event goers can now easily
publish news of their Acteva
transaction and promote their attendance at an event via their Facebook
News Feed. Also, by publishing this activity through the Party Buzz
connection, this information is made visible to all their friends who are
also Party Buzz members.
"Acteva is the ideal premier partner because its customer base represents
so many of the type of events, such as charity fundraisers and large
conferences, that can benefit most by increased social recommendations,"
said Nisan Gabbay, Chief Executive Officer, Rondavu. "We believe this
partnership has the power to build increased enthusiasm around events and
drive incremental sales for Acteva's Event Organizers."
In the past decade, Acteva has helped
event planners manage more than 215,000 events and process more than 3.4
million registrations. Now Acteva event goers have the option to let their
online friends know they have purchased tickets, donated to an
organization's charitable cause, purchased a membership, registered to
attend an industry conference, etc., evangelizing these activities in their
own social network.
"These are challenging times for organizations charged with meeting event
attendance goals to achieve profitability," commented Ed Lemire, Executive
Vice President, Acteva. "By partnering
with Rondavu, we are giving our customers the additional promotional
capability of leveraging their attendees' social and professional contacts
in Facebook to virally promote attendance at meetings, conventions and
other events."
The Facebook News Feed along with the Party Buzz interface are the newest
additions to Acteva's full suite of free promotional tools that help event
organizers effectively organize and promote events for maximum attendance
with one simple solution. Acteva users can also market their events
through online event listing sites such as AmericanTowns, Zvents and Google
to hundreds of media outlets nationwide. Acteva also helps event organizers
tap into social marketing with AddThis, a bookmarking and sharing tool, to
generate interest among their peers and further drive event attendance and
increase revenue.
About Rondavu
Rondavu is the developer of Party Buzz, an application on Facebook that
helps people discover what their friends are doing offline. Through the
Party Buzz publisher network, event ticketing, event planning, and ticket
reseller sites are now easily able to take advantage of word of mouth
marketing opportunities on Facebook. More information on joining the Party
Buzz publisher network is available at http://www.rondavu.com.
About Acteva
Acteva is the trusted leader in online
event registration, ticketing and payment management services. Since 1998,
over 12,500 customers have used Acteva to manage more than 215,000 events
and process more than 3.4 million registrations. Acteva's customers include
Bausch & Lomb, Pfizer, SAP, Girl Scouts of America, Whole Foods, Craigslist
Foundation, Lending Tree and thousands of small to large-sized businesses
and organizations. Acteva is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
More information on Acteva is available at www.Acteva.com.