People who are promoting events are starting to realize that promoting an event online is very different to dealing with print media.

Even the least tech-aware promoters are starting to wake up to the fact that sending a flyer image or pdf to a website contact email address is mostly a waste of time (there are no writers or editors there to read, retype and republish it!) and are gradually getting more used to the idea of entering their own events using online forms and some are starting to look for and use data sharing/import/export tools to reduce the time spent on entering the same data on different sites.

Expect many more sites in the future to provide more and better tools for sharing event data with other sites and applications and expect lots of interesting event-related applications to emerge!

SWEET!