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Local Government & Eventbrite

9th February 2012 by Mike Rawlins

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. Simon Whitehouse says

    9th February 2012 at 11:48 am

    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. simon gray says

    9th February 2012 at 11:48 am

    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.

  3. Michael Rawlins says

    9th February 2012 at 11:50 am

    Thanks both..

  4. Benjamin Welby says

    9th February 2012 at 11:52 am

    Eventbrite’s fine on the capricious Hull City Council network

  5. Dan Slee says

    9th February 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Eventbrite is fine at Walsall Council too.

  6. Michael Rawlins says

    9th February 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Thanks all.

    @sarahlay has also confirmed that Derbyshire is ok as well.

    I’ll look in to other reasons why they might not work, IE6 as someone has suggested.

  7. Simon Whitehouse says

    9th February 2012 at 12:57 pm

    IE6, don’t do it kids

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