Briefly explained

The heart of Hinto is a digital database for all kinds of events of any kind. Anyone and everyone can publish events events and get more reach. Our goal: to present the cultural life in all its diversity to the widest possible accessible to as wide an audience as possible.

Hinto stands out from other event platforms because of the free data exchange. This means: Instead of advertising your event on on your website and/or on all possible platforms you only enter your event once. After that, it automatically spreads to all sites that participate in Hinto participate. This saves you time and your event reaches the largest possible audience. largest possible audience.

When you publish your event on Hinto, it will automatically appear it will automatically appear on all the sites that participate in Hinto. An example: If you enter your concert on Hinto, it will automatically be automatically published on bewegungsmelder.ch and other cultural agendas. This way you do not only reach the visitors of Hinto, but also the audience Hinto, but also the audience of other websites and event calendars. event calendars.

Hinto brings you more reach. With the OLE interface you can your event data to Hinto. From there, they will be published on all the sites that participate in Hinto. Your events get more visibility, more clicks, more audience - and without any extra effort for you. you.

Hinto gets you more reach. If you put your event on your own website, you will only reach your own visitors. your own visitors. With Hinto your event on all websites that participate in Hinto. You no longer need to enter your event on different event platforms individually. Hinto does it for you - completely automatically and without any additional effort.

Hinto brings you more reach. So far you have published your concert on all possible platforms to spread it as far as possible. spread it as far as possible. Hinto simplifies this work for you. You enter your concert once on Hinto. Afterwards it will be published automatically on all that participate in Hinto. An example: You perform on Friday evening in Bern. Your concert appears both directly on Hinto as well as on all sites which get their data from Hinto data, for example the Bewegungsmelder, the Quartierleist Bern Länggasse Engehalbinsel, Villa Stucki and many others. many others. With you save manual recording on the the individual platforms and and reach more interested people at the same time.

Sure! Your jazz band's playing a gig next month and you wanna and you want to pack the house? Then you can create an event on Hinto create an event as a private user. Just gather all the information about your gig, create a free user profile if you don't have one yet and if you don't have one yet, and off you go!

A guide is a watch list. In it you can save events you would like to visit. You can keep your own watch list just for you. You can also share it with your friends. Or you can make your watchlist publicly and become a guide.

In principle it is the same. With the watchlist you save manually or with a personalized filter the events of your choice. This you can either keep it for yourself only. You can share it share it with your friends. Or you can make it public. In this In that case, it becomes a guide.

You are a connoisseur or an expert in your field? Then become a guide for your community. To do this a public watchlist on Hinto and add all matching events to it. events to it. Your watch list is then then available to all Hinto visitors as a guide. available to all Hinto visitors as a guide.

How does working in groups work? With a group, several users join together together and appear to the outside world under a common name. As a community or operator of an event platform, you can invite all team members to the group and let them register and and have them enter and edit events under your common name. This way you always have an overview of registered, pending and past events. and past events. Or you can create a guide and share the work on it.

A widget is a small programming element. With the Hinto widget you can retrieve events from Hinto and display them on your own website. your own website. Which events these are, you decide yourself. For example, you can display all events within a radius of 5 km radius. Or you can filter all events for families. Or you can display all music events in your region. And and and ...

The advantage for you: You have to events for your website calendar no longer manually compile, enter and update. The widget does all that for you. And of course, the whole thing looks beautiful too: The widget can be completely to the colors and design of your website.

The widget is especially suitable for organizers who do not have their own their own database or do not have an appealing solution for an own event calendar on the website.

Basically yes. The only requirement is a free profile on Hinto. If you want to integrate the widget yourself, you should be familiar with your CMS and be able to orientate yourself code. To adapt the design to your website, you need to have a good knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Here you can find the instructions to integrate the widget. If you have any questions questions or need support, just just get in touch with us. We'll take a look at your website and discuss with you how you can best use the widget. widget is the best way to use it.

OLE stands for "Open Linked Eventdata". This is an an interface that you integrate on your website. After the your event as usual on your own website. website. With help of the OLE interface, Hinto Hinto fetches your event data from you and automatically and publishes them automatically on Hinto. From there, your event is published simultaneously published simultaneously on all websites that participate in Hinto. Changes are automatically synchronized. With only one entry you get the largest possible the widest possible reach.

The OLE interface is especially important for large organizers. Since large organizers usually already have their own database, they can use the OLE interface to transfer the data from their own database OLE interface directly to Hinto and distribute it from there.

Prerequisite for the integration of the OLE interface is a free profile on Hinto. You also need a solid knowledge of knowledge in programming and XML.

Here you can find the instructions for the how to integrate the OLE interface. If you have questions or need support support, just simply contact us. We'll take a look at your website and discuss with you how you can improve the interface the best way to use the interface.

Simply explains you use the widget to fetch data from Hinto, while the Interface fetches the data from you.

If you run a website with its own event database, the OLE interface is for you. This fetches the data from you and then distributes it via the the Open Linked Eventdata-Network. In this way you get the largest possible the greatest possible reach.

If you enter your events manually as a blog entry or similar, we recommend the widget. This fetches all events on Hinto that match your profile and displays them on your website. and displays them on your website. This way you always have an up-to-date calendar on your site without having to enter the data manually.

Just the way you want it! When you add the Hinto widget to your website, you can website, you can customize the colors, fonts, etc. to match your own design of your own site. From the outside there is no difference visible from the outside. Here you can see some examples of cultural events that already work with Hinto:

On Hinto you can create and publish an unlimited number of events and publish them. All you need to do is create a user profile.

If you want to use the the widget or the OLE interface on your website on your website, you can either do it yourself or use our help. help. The instructions for integrating yourself can be found here. All functions are free of charge.

If you have questions or need support with the installation, just get in touch with us. We will have a look and discuss with you how we can best support you. can support you best.

Clearly. We understand culture in the broadest sense. You can also a flea market, a sports event or a cooking class.

You have two options:

- Either you register a profile with the name of your organization and share a common login.

- Or - our recommendation - you create a separate profile for each team member a separate profile and assign this to your group. All members of your group can enter or mutate events. Towards the outside you appear under the name of the group. This has the advantage that several employees can work on Hinto at the same time.

So far, maintain the either maintain their event themselves with a login on your website, or you enter the supplied data manually. manually. With Hinto you save this work. The organizers simply create a profile on Hinto and enter their events there. there. With the widget you can then automatically events in your region automatically. Updates and changes are synchronized automatically. Manual updates are no longer necessary. All this is done by the widget for you.

The advantage for you: You no longer have to manually enter or collect. The saves time and work.

The advantage for the Organizers: A wider reach. Because their event will not only be shown on your, but also on all the other sites that participate in Hinto.

To date. the either enter their event themselves with a login on your website, or you enter the supplied data manually. With Hinto you save this work for you. The organizers simply create a profile on Hinto and enter their events there. With the widget, you can then automatically events that take place in your catchment area on the municipality's website. in your catchment area. Updates and changes are also synchronized automatically. automatically synchronized. Manual updates are no longer necessary. The widget does all this for you. The design can be fully personalized and adapted to your your corporate identity (colors, fonts, etc.). adapt. The design can be fully personalized and adapted to your your corporate identity (colors, fonts, etc.). adapt.  

The advantage for you: You no longer have to enter data manually or compile. The saves time and work.

The advantage for the Organizers: A wider reach. Because their event will not only be shown on your, but also on all the other sites that participate in Hinto.

The event calendar is fully available to all visitors free of charge even without a profile and free of charge. If you want to events, create a group or keep a watch list, you must create a user account create an account. This is absolutely free of charge.