Helios is a web based event management and promotion system.

Helios is a web based event management and promotion system.

More then just a calendar Helios provides many new and powerful ways to help you organize and promote your events online.

Features:

Unlimited Events
Helios has no built in limits for the number of events you can store in your calendar.

Unlimited Administrators
Helios has no built in limits for the number of administrators you can have.

Shared Administration
Helios promotes collaboration and shared management. Configure administration accounts to any level of access to tailor the account for the individuals responsibilities.

Select from eight (8) different access settings to distribute responsibility across your team.

XHTML 1.0 & CSS 2.0
Helios is XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 compliant to give you easy access to customizing the look, feel, layout and color scheme of your Helios Calendar. Separated stylesheets ensure that you will not have to redo all your customizations when upgrading versions.

Public Event Submission
Let your users find and submit events for you. Easy to use approval system gives you total control over event information allowing you to update event information before publishing them on your site.

Send approved and declined messages to event submitters with the click of a button to encourage repeat submissions.

Event Search
Users can find exactly what events their looking for with search by Date, Event Keyword, Event City, Event Category, or any combination of the four.

Advanced Traffic Reports
Calendar wide overviews or individual event details, whichever you are after Helios will have, in real time. Most Popular Events gives an overview of which events are receiving the most traffic both on your public calendar and your mobile site.

Calendar Overview gives a high-level view of your Helios stats and Event Activity Report gives you event specific total and daily average statistics for every event in your calendar. You can even build custom event reports and print them in a printer-friendly format.

Event Newsletters
Users sign-up for the categories they are interested in and you send the newsletters by selecting the date range.

You can also build customized HTML templates and save them for later use to dress up your newsletters.

vCalendar Event Download
Users can download full event information to any vCalendar supporting application including; Outlook, Palm Desktop and Apple iCal.

Event Registration
Powerful and easy to use registration tools. Event contacts receive an email each time a new user registers.

Administrators can login and view any and all event registrants and easily add/edit/delete new or existing attendees and send the entire roster to the event coordinator with the click of their mouse.

Email to a Friend
Users can tell one another about events via Email to a Friend.

Social Bookmarking Tools
Helios features integrated social bookmarking tools. When viewing event details users can click on the icon of their preferred social bookmarking site and instantly submit that event to the site of their choice.

Supported sites include: del.icio.us, digg.com, blinklist.com, reddit.com, co.mments.com, newsvine.com, yahoo.com, furl.net, tailrank.com and sprul.net.

RSS Event Feeds
Helios provides advanced support for syndicating your events via RSS feeds. Included standard feeds are: All Events, Newest Events, Billboard Events and Most Popular Events.

Users can create their own unique feed for whatever categories they are interested in. RSS feeds are RSS 2.0 compliant and work with any RSS 2.0 supported software/site/script.

RSS Subscription Tools
Integrated RSS subscription links allow users to subscribe with just a click. Supported sites include: AOL.com, Bloglines.com, del.icio.us, fyuze.com, Google Reader, Kinja.com, My MSN, Newsburst.com, NewsIsFree.com, Newsgator.com, Pluck.com, Rojo.com, My Yahoo.

WAP Mobile Site
WAP enabled Mobile Site allows users to access event information and browse the calendar through any WML 1.0 compliant Mobile browsing device. This includes all WML 1.0 compliant browsers available on many popular PDAs and Mobile Telephones.

Event Export
Currently Supports CSV export.

Repeating Events
Save time by entering recurring events only once. Miss a date? Need a unique event series with different times for different days? Helios allows you to easily build event series with existing events so there is no need to spend time re-entering event information.

Search Engine Optimized
Control your calendars meta Keywords and Description in the Helios administration console anytime for search engine positioning without changing any code.

Cross Platform Compatibility
Build with PHP and powered by MySQL, Helios will work on any server that has these two very popular server software titles installed. This includes Linux and Windows servers, along with many other popular server Operating Systems.