
Social media has a role in nearly all the 5,000-plus events happening at South by Southwest, including the music and film sessions. Here are some highlights.

Social media has a role in nearly all the 5,000-plus events happening at South by Southwest, including the music and film sessions. Here are some highlights.

Have you posted an event on Facebook and subsequently not been able to find it later? If so, you’re not alone.

When it comes to using social media to market events, Facebook is the cream of the crop, with 89 percent of respondents to a recent survey saying they use it for that purpose, followed by Twitter at 66 percent, and LinkedIn at 54 percent.

Facebook users who are nervous about unwittingly excluding friends from their events now have access to a third-party Facebook application that may be able to quell their fears.

Inside Social Apps 2012 comes to San Francisco in just two weeks. The February 8 and 9 event brings together the industry’s leading developers for two days of panels, discussions, and networking around the social and mobile app ecosystem.

Facebook has scheduled a press-only event tomorrow evening, and it could focus on open graph actions.

Facebook announced the launch of the suggested events feature.

Facebook continues to test new wrinkles for its events, in this case replacing the friends’ events tab under the homepage’s events bookmark with suggested events.

Facebook made a minor change to its Events feature, replacing “Attending,” “Maybe Attending,” and “Not Attending” with “Join,” “Maybe” and “Decline.”

Facebook event pages now include maps with links to directions.