What DoStuff's Doing: Getting Harder, Better, FASTER, Stronger

And that project is now officially accomplished!

We recently made the Giveaways button a permanent fixture on listing pages due to positive A/B test results. However, it makes the event cards HUGE on mobile and tablets, so we will be removing the button from those displays.

We are now A/B testing opening the RSVP/Giveaway entry form in a modal on listing pages instead of the event page. If you missed the details, you can review this recent update.

Take a first look at lenses with the SX artist info release. Much more to come as a tool to target content curation and presentation!

Some other progress made in the past few weeks:

• -- HTML enabled in sidebar of event and user pages for ads
• -- You now have ability to control your own footer web links: http://admin.dostuffmedia.com/social_links
• -- Default shortcut restored so you can omit event categories from the homepage
• -- Shortcuts now display repeating events and separates them out as individual events - as opposed to one event and option to view all "Every Tues"
• -- Sold out events display "Sold Out" in place of "Buy"
• -- 21+ not the appropriate age check for your RSVP event? You can now select the age check.

Thank you all so much for your continued contribution to our prioritization of the stuff that matters! For those of you that didn't have a chance to check it out, we added some clarification for how you can use the DSD queue to make that contribution.

Festivals

We've turned the corner toward fest season this year, so lineup launches are happening. GovBall, Hangout, Counterpoint and Jazz Fest all launched their lineups. And talks with Bonnaroo have begun to make sure we meet their requests.

NBD

Nokia's photo program was successfully delivered and is wrapping up.  According to Nokia and Cohn & Wolfe, we "smashed" their goals!

The other week, we at DoStuff packed into the conference room to hold our first network sales call of 2014 with you fine people. It was less awkward than this scenario because who doesn't love to talk plans to make money?

Pabst will be sponsoring launch parties for Do206 and Do214, and Goose is likely to renew the sponsored Tastemaker meetups. You all are leading conversations with brands from PopChips (Do312) to Fireball (Do317) to Chevy (Do512).

And of course, SX will be a big opportunity for partnerships as well as parties.

Also of note: moves are being made toward a national sales hire and we will update you as soon as those moves are official.

Speaking of New Team DoStuff Members

We are excited to welcome Jordan “Cinnamon Stick” Ripley to DoStuff. Some of you may have had the opportunity to meet him already. This marks his third week working with the Delivery Team (our new term for "support"), where his focus is on all things related to Market Development and Business Support. He’s already hard at work advising on proposals and tackling an E5 project to build support resources specifically for new metros.

How did Jordan stumble into DoStuff you might ask? He tells the story best, “I got to DoStuff by being the ginger coffee-fetching intern at Do512. I went to UT for school, and spent many an afternoon on the (hygienically dubious) couch in the Do512 office. I must've not screwed things up too terribly, because after graduating college and working for a couple years doing search engine marketing at Adlucent, they kindly invited me back to help out.”

Yep, he was a Do512er and knows his "stuff." He already wrote up guidance on how to optimize the visibility of your Facebook posts given a recent change Facebook made.

doNYC just celebrated its 1-year anniversary (fashionably late) with a stellar turn-out to not just one but TWO parties.  Check out pics from the first night:

And we in Austin are celebrating that we survived not just one but TWO ice-pocalypses (this past Tuesday hit us unexpectedly). To great social success, Do312 called out Do512 during the first storm:

Stay Warm

Team DoStuff Ep 5 Photo