Columba Higher Education Event Calendar Platform

Columba has developed a unique application that will help you utilise scheduled events from across your organisation to add a new dimension to your marketing and public relations strategies.

Usually these events - open days, public lectures, conferences, ceremonies, exhibitions, alumni reunions and committees - are dispersed over multiple academic and administrative websites. Details of these events are frequently 'hard-coded' into web pages and presented as a simple and static list of events. Facilities for searching by type of event, date or venue are often very limited making it difficult for interested parties to locate information.

The Columba Higher Education Event Calendar Platform will help you to take control of your events and present them in a single calendar on your website that is flexible, interactive and allows information to be located with only a few clicks of a mouse.

The platform includes a event publishing system that lets nominated representative across your organisation enter and update event information without the need for IT skills. These are then automatically routed to you for approval before being published in the calendar.

The Columba Calendar Platform will let visitors to your site:

  • Enjoy a greatly enhanced look and feel with improved search and navigation facilities.
  • View event locations using the latest geo-mapping services.
  • Synchronise specific types of event with their personal iCal and Outlook 2007 calendars. For example, all new Alumni events added to the calendar will automatically appear on their PCs without the need to revisit your website and download files.

The platform operates as a micro site that seamlessly integrates into your website using your look and feel and is hosted and supported by Columba leaving you free from the hassle of system maintenance.

Columba is the leader in event calendar systems. Why bother 're-inventing the wheel' when you can benefit from proven technology for a much lower cost?

To view an example of a higher education event calendar that the University of Manchester implemented using the Columba platform, please go to events.manchester.ac.uk

To find out how you can make the most of your events to improve your reputation with external stakeholders, prospective students, and your peers across the UK & internationally, please contact us today.

Download Columba Higher Education Overview (pdf)

University of manchester Calendar