Default: Look for events across the world. By default, SEraja shows events in your city. To change the location, go to the home page of SEraja, click on the small arrow next to the city name and change the location to anything place you want. Presto! More relevant events show up. Keywords and tags: Use Keywords (like 'James' 'High School') and Tags (like 'reunion' 'batchmates') in the search box provided at the bottom of every page. You could also look up the Popular Tags tab provided at the bottom of every page. Click on a tag ('fifa' 'blue') to find events tagged with those words. Advanced Search: Still can't find what you are looking for? Try our 'Advanced Search' (date, location, category, keyword, publisher and more). Then, refine your results. A link to the 'Advanced Search' is provided at the bottom of every page. Here's a handy link to the 'Advanced Search' in case you want to take it for a spin right now: http://www.seraja.com/advanced_search.jsp Preset Search: Too lazy to try an 'Advanced Search' (we all have those days)? Someone at SEraja thought it may help to have a bunch of preset searches available on the 'Advanced Search' page. Try it. You never know what you may stumble across. Live Search RSS: Let's say you love football. And you've used the keyword 'football' to find events. Now, by clicking on the RSS icon - which looks like this -- on the search results, you can get the code to stick into your RSS reader. Any new event using the word 'football' will be delivered to your RSS reader. Of course you can do this for any set of search results. Popular Group: Another way to look for events is through the 'Popular Groups' tab at the bottom of every page. Go ahead, noodle around a bit and see what you find.

Map Mash Up: At the top of all Search results, you'll find an icon that looks like this . Click on it to see your search result overlaid on a map.

Live Search RSS: Let's say you love football. And you've used the keyword 'football' to search for events. Now, by clicking on the RSS icon on the search results, you can get the code to stick into your RSS reader. Any new event using the word 'football' will be delivered to your RSS reader. Of course you can do this for any set of search results. RSS for your City or Country: At the bottom of each page is an RSS link. Click on it to see how you can create an RSS feed for events in your city. There are seven examples on this page (http://www.seraja.com/rss.jsp). Can't find your city on the page? There's a handy tip on the page that lets you create a custom RSS feed that is good for you.

Once you are on an event page you can read about the event, its location, date and time, perhaps find a map, some landmarks for the event venue, and experience the event through images, video, audio, text links, documents and whatever else the event publisher has made available. Why not take a look at http://www.seraja.com/experience.jsp?eventID=27617 where we have Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. Yeah, the map part is a bit tricky for this event :)

Events on the Go: Fire up your GPRS connection on the mobile and go to www.seraja.mobi to browser events in your city or any other place. We'll even show you pictures for the event (if there are any) and comments that others have made.

Free feed: Have a website or a blog where you need a feed of events happening in your city? Check out our simple Event Feed Generator. Customize the look and feel of the feed. Then embed the code we generate into any web page and you have an instant feed of relevant events. The Event Feed Generator can be found at http://www.seraja.com/event_feed.jsp

Profile: Your profile is sensitive information. Fill in your profile page with care. It helps others decide if they want to be in touch with you.
Before you make your profile 'Public' (you can choose to keep it 'Private'), select the portions you want others to see.
Regardless of what you make 'Public', fill in your profile as accurately as possible - because it helps SEraja serve you appropriate content.

Post an Event: Click on the 'Post an Event' tab at the top of all pages to publish an event. The moment you have filled in the minimum details (Title, Date, City) and clicked 'Publish Now', the event will be published (visible to others). The events you publish in this manner automatically open in Edit mode. You can then add or delete details as you wish. You could also choose to 'Add more details' before hitting 'Publish Now'. The effect of doing this is rather simple - the event gets stored in your 'Draft' folder under the 'Events & Groups' page. It then opens in 'Draft' mode. You can now edit it, ensure that everything is as you want it to be and then 'Publish' the event by clicking on the 'Publish' icon shown next to the Event Title. Moving an Event to Draft: When your event page is open, you will see three 'SE' icons next to the Event Title. The first one with a tick mark is a 'Publish' button. Clicking on the next icon with the arrow pointing downwards moves the event instantly to the 'Draft' folder under your 'Events & Groups' page. Your event is not visible to anyone other than yourself while it is in the 'Drafts' folder. Event Title: Example: 1987 Class Reunion at the Frog & Well. Add this as the first step to creating your event. Date, Time and City of the Event: Let others know when the event takes place. Event Description: Where you can add details of the activities that will happen at the event, the purpose of the event, people who you can expect to meet at the event and so on. Phone numbers: Add phone numbers that may be useful and help others get in touch with the organizer of the event. Category of the Event: Example: Business, Health, Technology, Personal, Education... a drop down box will help you pick the right category. Adding your event to a category (or several of them) helps others find your event more easily. Restricted/ Free: Let visitors known if they need to pay for the event, if it is by invitation only or is open for anyone to attend without a fee. Parent website: You can add a URL that takes your visitor to a site that may have more information about your organization or yourself. Tags: These are words associated with the event. Tags will help others find your event in a more intuitive manner. You can add tags to events published by other people as well. Don't worry too much about it being right or wrong. The Event Publisher can always edit the tags you add and ensure that data is accurate. Images, Audio, Video, Web Pages, presentations, spreadsheets: You can add/ link to documents in any format to your event. We strongly suggest you do this to provide adequate information about your event and make it more attractive. After all, a picture can say a thousand words... and a video, well, can ensure a sell out! Other registered users can add images, audio, video, web pages, etc too if the permissions for your event have been set up appropriately. And of course, you can do likewise to events published by others. Incidentally, you can add images, audio, video, etc from your hard drive, link to them anywhere on the net or look for them within SEraja itself. Maps, Landmarks and Directions: Add these to help your visitor reach your event. Annotations: Add annotations to any or all the documents that you upload or link to. Other registered users can add annotations too if the permissions for your event have been set up appropriately. And of course, you can do likewise to stuff published by others. Mobile publishing: Check out our mobile application to see how you can publish intelligently and instantly using your mobile phone's image, video, audio and SMS capture ability. More here: http://www.seraja.com/mobile.jsp

Saving an Advanced Search: Don't want to use RSS? You could go to the 'Advanced Search' page and use any search criteria, wait for the Search Results before clicking on the 'Save Search' button. A box will open, asking you to fill in a name for the custom search. Think of this as a label for your search. The Search is saved. Using the Saved Search: Let's say you put in the label 'Football Events' and saved the search - the search will be available to you in your 'Saved Searches' page. Visit the 'Saved Searches' page anytime and click on the link. You will get back the latest search results. You can save as many searches as you wish - each with its own custom label. Changing Saved Search criteria: If you want to change the search criteria for 'Football Events' (in the example above), go to 'Saved Searches' and click on the edit icon next to the stored search label. You can now change anything you want and save the search again. It's actually a lot of fun to use. Works best when you have complicated search criteria and want SEraja to remember it for you.

Tell a Friend: Once you've published an event, you can send it off to anyone you want using your SEraja address book. Click on the 'Tell a Friend' tab, write your message, add the email Ids you want to send your event to and hit 'Send.' It doesn't matter how many people you send this mail to. SEraja will instantly acquire the email Ids and start sending each of them your mail, along with the Event URL. Create Mailing Lists: You can send events even faster to everyone by creating Mailing Lists in your Address Book. This is the equivalent of creating a Distribution List. You simply send to the list instead of adding individual email Ids. To do this, open your Address Book> Mailing Lists> Click on the Add Mailing List icon You can now add names from your Contacts to a special Mailing List. Give the list a name (ex: High School Buddies) and a nice description (ex: Class of 1987, Fort St James) then hit 'Add'. Your new Mailing List is ready. Using a Mailing List: Next time you visit an event page and want to send the event to a list of buddies, just select the right Mailing List name and send off your mail. Mail to Groups: If you have created a Group or have joined a Group, you can send mail to the entire group with a single click. Visit your 'Events & Groups' page and click on the group you want to send mail to. Click on the mailing icon and a box appears where you can write your message. Say 'Send' and it's done. You can also message the Group from an event page itself. Click on the 'Group' tab and you will see the description of the Group as well as the people who belong to the Group. Click on the mailing icon to open a box where you can write your message. Hit 'Send' and the entire Group gets your message. EventFeed: SEraja has a convenient way of providing an event feed (see http://www.seraja.com/event_feed.jsp ) on any web page. Cut and paste the customized code we provide within any web page to get an instant feed of relevant events. Share: When you want to share an event with someone, click on the 'Share' tab and a box opens providing you with the URL for the event as well as a Permalink. You could use the URL in an email or you can use the Permalink within a web page (like your blog or company site). Share over a mobile device: As soon as an event is published and made 'Public', it can be found by others on their mobile devices. For more on how this works, see the SEraja Guide at http://www.seraja.com/mobile.jsp For your event to show up on a mobile device, your event date has to be marked with the current date or later. The mobile event display does not show events in the past. Print version: On an event page, click on the 'Print' tab and you'll find a convenient way to carry details of the event with you as a hard copy. You can customize the printed version to what suits you best.

Access Settings: Click on the 'Access Settings' of an event published by you. Now, you can quickly manage a variety of things. To start with, you can change the access level between Private, Group and Public. Private = Visible to only you.
Group = Visible to anyone who joins your Group for that event.
Public = Provides access to everyone.
If you decide that your event will have 'Group' access, you can add a Group Description (Buddies from Fort St James, Class of 1987, organizing a reunion at the Frog & Well) that is visible to others. Others cannot edit this description. The Group Description helps others see if they want to join the group (or not). For example, there may be other people from the Class of 1987 who may want to join the reunion and this description helps them to. You can make your event searchable by all or by just your group, thereby maintaining privacy to the extent you want. Remember, if you set an event to be searchable only by your group members, they have to be logged in to find the event. You can also fine-tune the rights to view/ add/ edit/ delete/ posts, Comments & Annotations and Checklist Items.

Creating a Group: First, you need to have published an event and set the access to 'Group' (for details, look under the 'Manage' provided above). You can set the Group to being Moderated or Unmoderated. Depending on what you choose, the way in which others join your group changes. Inviting people to join your Group: Once an event is set as a Group event, you can invite others to join the group. To invite others, go to your, 'Events & Groups' page> Select 'Groups I Created'> Select the group to which you want to invite others> Click on the 'Join the Group' icon. Joining a Group: If you set a Group to Moderated, you will need to approve each person as they join the group. Others can join your Group by clicking on the 'Join this Group' tab under 'Group'. It is up to you to accept or reject a person. If you set the Group to Unmoderated, anyone can join the group anytime by clicking on the 'Join this Group' tab under 'Group'. Your permission is not required. Similarly, you can join Groups set up by others. Leaving a Group: You can leave a Group anytime by deleting your name from the Group. Others can leave your Group similarly. To leave a Group, go to your 'Events & Groups' page> Select Groups I Belong to> Select the Group you want to leave> Click on the 'Leave this group' icon. Creating/ Managing Group Checklists: You can create a checklist for your event if you have created a Group around the event. Note that the 'Checklist' tab is not visible on pages that do not have a Group associated with it. Fill in the box that appears below the 'Checklist' tab and the text is instantly added to your list. A tick box appears before each checklist item. Ticking the box has the effect of scoring the checklist item and showing it as 'done'. An 'x' mark appears after the checklist item. Clicking on it removes the checklist item. Mail to Groups: If you have created a Group or have joined a Group, you can send mail to the entire group with a single click. Visit your 'Events & Groups' page> Click on the group you want to send mail to> Click on the mailing icon and a box appears where you can write your message. Click 'Send' and it's done. You can also message the Group from an event page itself. Click on the 'Group' tab and you will see the description of the Group as well as the people who belong to the Group. Click on the mailing icon to open a box where you can write your message. Hit 'Send' and the entire Group gets your message.

Attendees: Clicking on the 'Attendee' tab on any event page will show a list of those who have marked their attendance for the event. If you wish to mark your attendance, click on the 'I am attending' box. Your name is added to the Attendee list. Contributors: Clicking on the 'Contributors' tab on any event page will show you the list of people who have added posts, tags, landmarks, directions, annotations or comments to the event. This is a quick way to see who is doing what.

Bookmarks: When you find an event that you want to bookmark, click on the 'Bookmark/ Reminder' tab. You can now easily set a bookmark or a reminder. Once you have done this, the event is available under your 'Bookmarks & Reminders' page from where you can edit your bookmarks and reminders or reset them. Group Reminder: If you want to set up a reminder for your Group, go to your 'Events & Groups' page. Select the Group you want to set a reminder for> Click on the 'Set Reminder for Group' icon (the alarm bell). Fill in the details and the reminder is set.

Copy: The Copy function is available under the 'Make Event Copy' tab on all event pages. Click on it to create a copy of the event. The event copy will be available in your 'Events & Groups' page under the 'Drafts' folder. Now you can edit the event details whenever you want and publish the event. Flag: Don't like something you see? Flag it by clicking on the 'Flag Inappropriate' tab. This has the effect of launching a red flag against the event. Your comment, when flagging an event, will also be visible to others along with the flag. You can do the same with any of the posts associated with an event. Don't forget to mention why you think something is inappropriate! Rate an Event: Like something you see? Give it a rating by clicking on the 'Rate this Event' tab. Select from 1 to 5 stars. Once you select your rating, it is shown along with the ratings of others (average rating) next to the event title on top of the page. You are allowed to rate an event once. You can change your rating anytime and your new rating will be used to calculate the average rating for the event.

Time Zone: Go to your 'Settings' page and ensure you select the right time zone. This is critical when it comes to sending you reminders for events or showing you the right events to update when you are using your mobile device as a publishing tool. For more on how to use your mobile device to publish, see http://www.seraja.com/mobile.jsp Password: You can change your password from your 'Settings' page as frequently as you wish.