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More of a question for our Local Government followers than a blog post this one.

Does your organisation block access to Eventbrite?

The reason I’m asking this is because we are in the middle of running a series of events and we are using Eventbrite to manage the attendees which include people from Local Government.

We know that all the awesome #localgov people can use Eventbrite because we see them regularly at events. What I have noticed is a number of people have contacted me to say that ‘the link doesn’t work’ for signing up. I know the link does work because we have X number of people already signed up. The common factor in the people who are contacting me, they all seem to be using @local.gov.uk E-mail addresses, so I assume signing up (or at least trying to) from work.

So how many #localgov organisations block access to Eventbrite and stop some of their people signing up to events and being able to network with some of the finest #localgov brains?

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  1. Hello there

    Fine on Birmingham’s school network. I get through using the city’s corporate proxies too.

    I think we still use Bluecoat as our content filtering doodah and you can check the categorisation of websites here

    http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp

    Eventbrite is categorised as Business/Economy and so I’d expect that to be available widely.

    There is other content filtering software available and local overrides can apply which which means this isn’t anything like a universal situation.

  2. i’ve just checked with a colleague who has the new socialist media blocked for them during core hours, and they were able to get to eventbrite (.com & .co.uk) just fine.