Demand for Glenn Beck Taking Off on Eventful

Just over a week ago, Fox News host Glenn Beck announced that he would be rolling out a series of "educational conventions" to be held around the country starting in Orlando, Florida, next spring on March 27 at the UCF Arena. He told a crowd at The Villages retirement community in that "up on GlennBeck.com we've partnered with a company called Eventful" where people can vote for their area. The whole series is supposed to culminate on August 28 in Washington, DC, "at the feet of Abraham Lincoln" (a  date and location that ought to make students of the civil rights movement wince).

Endquote From the Fall & Rise of Media

“Somewhere down in the Flatiron, out in Brooklyn, over in Queens or up in Harlem, cabals of bright young things are watching all the disruption with more than an academic interest. Their tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago. And they are ginning content from their audiences in the form of social media or finding ways of making ambient information more useful. They are jaded in the way youth requires, but have the confidence that is a gift of their age as well.”

Some See Palin's Online Effort Lacking

Though former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is known as one of the country’s biggest political celebrities – online as well as off of it -- several GOP new-media strategists believe she has significant room for improvement when it comes to her web presence.

After resigning as governor in July, many wondered what Palin’s (R) next step would be. Will she run for president in 2012? Will she stump for candidates across the country? Will she remain an influential media figure?

Mike Huckabee has adopted Eventful to help determine the governor’s campaign stops.

In a recent press release, Chip Saltsman, Huckabee’s National Campaign Manager, stated:

We recently created a Mike Huckabee page on the eventful website. Our hope is that eventful will help us organize Governor Huckabee’s travel, give us insight into places the Governor should visit that we might not think of otherwise and help us gauge a level of support in various cities and towns around the country.

Huckabee's campaign has added a link to his Eventful page on mikehuckabee.com, blogged about Eventful twice, and added a handful of Demand stickers to their widgets page.

This is first time that any campaign, on the left or right, has added Demand stickers to their website as a major call to action for bloggers and supporters. We'll be watching to see if the tool proves useful to his campaign as it continues to gain momentum.

Ed. Note: Jed Sundwall tirelessly works for Eventful.com. So much so that we decided to offer him some space at our table.