Cirque winners still being contacted!

UPDATE - 3:58PM

Our Cirque “Kooza” winners have been announced. We actually got 2 pairs of 2 tickets (4 tickets total) for Tuesday night’s performance, so you actually had double the chance! The randomly drawn winners are:

Sheafe Smith  from San Jose

Greg Freeman from San Jose

Thank you to all of you who helped to spread the word about this promotion, and a special thanks to Cirque du Soliel for donating the tickets to Artsopolis!

Are you interested in other promotional opportunities to receive tickets for events like this? If so, please leave a comment to this post and let us know.

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Cirque Contest Status - 12:04pm 

Greetings all,

Our winners for our Cirque Du Soliel promotion didn’t respond over the weekend, so we just picked new winners. We will release their names shortly. Please check the email you provided to see if there is a message from us regarding your status…you may be a winner!

 More soon,

Ron Evans

Artsopolis.com

“Kooza”

Artsopolis.com, Silicon Valley’s ultimate guide to arts & entertainment, and Cirque du Soleil want you to know what’s happening in Silicon Valley! Artsopolis has 1000+ events by 800+ local entertainment organizations… Music. Comedy. Kids & Family events — there’s a lot going on!  If it’s happening in arts & entertainment, it’s listed on Artsopolis.com.

But saving money makes it even better. Sign up for eSavers, our free weekly email, and get half-price tickets to great local events. And by signing up, you’ll be entered to win tickets to Kooza, playing in San Jose until March 16! Already signed up? Watch your email for today’s eSavers with a different way for you to win.

To be entered to win tickets to Kooza:

Simply sign up for eSavers, our free weekly half-price ticket email:

http://www.artsopolis.com/half_price_offers

by Saturday, Feb. 9, 12:00pm, and you’ll be entered to win. It’s that simple! We’ll randomly draw and email winners at that time. You must contact us within 8 hours to accept, or new names will be drawn. Final winners will be announced on the Artsopolis.com blog on Monday, Feb. 11, 12:00pm. Winners will attend the Tuesday, Feb. 12, 8pm performance of Kooza.

Good luck, and welcome to Artsopolis.com!

Easier browsing, Artsopolis style!

We’ve just implemented a new feature we call the “pop-browser,” which allows you to see a preview pop-up window when looking at the line listings on category pages, or search results. Not sure what “Monkey Brains” is when you see it up on the search results page? Just roll your mouse over the link, and you’ll see a preview of the organization, description, and a photo if we have it. With that info, you can decide if you want to click on the link for even more information.  Try it out by scrolling down to the line listings:

http://artsopolis.com/event/cat/theatre.

Makes previewing a bunch of events for the weekend a snap! 

Ron Evans, Lead Developer, Artsopolis

Old-style search results are back!

Back by popular demand, we have rebuilt the “One Page” search results for date searches and the free events category. Many of you dropped us a note (thank you!) to let us know that you very much preferred the ability to scan the entire page and to see the event broken up by category when planning your weekend. It’s baaaaaaacccckk!

Also, “Ongoing” events now sort to the bottom of each category, and we’ve moved ‘kids & families’ and ‘visual arts & museums’ to the bottom of the results, since they usually have the most ongoing events. For those of you that like the paginated view - just click the “paginated” link above the results. You can also filter by a specific category if you know what you want. Search away!

We’re continuing to make improvements on our beta site on a daily basis. Thanks to your emails alerting us to specific problems, we’ve fixed a number of issues that have popped up. The next major update will be to the Artist Profiles area, along with small updates to several other sections. Hang on Artists! You’ll soon have the ability to login again and make updates to your profiles yourself. If you need to do an update now, just email support@artsopolis.com with your change, and we’ll do it by hand.

Thanks again for all your great feedback! Onward an upward…

Ron Evans, Lead Developer, Artsopolis

Artsopolis v3 is in Beta!

It’s official - Artsopolis version 3 is now in Beta, and taking a live shakedown cruise. The development team has been working very hard to improve every area of the site, from our new google-style search, to our faster displaying pages, to our totally redesigned navigation system, allowing you to more quickly find what you’re looking for.

And that’s not the best of it!

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be rolling out a series of new features that we got from your feedback; many will allow the site to reach out to you to keep you informed of all of the great Arts & Cultural events Silicon Valley has to offer. You can check back here - we’ll let you know as they go live.

For the time being, the development team can use your help - if you see something not working as it should, please let us know! Use the “Report an Error” link in the upper-right corner of any page to send us a quick comment on what you saw wrong, and how you think it should work. Then we’ll go fix it! We’re sure a few website bugs have escaped us, but with your help, we’ll track them down quickly.

Thank you for your continued support of Arts & Culture and Artsopolis; welcome aboard!

-Ron Evans, Lead Developer, Artsopolis