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title: "Social Media Roundup: A New Tool For Event Planning"
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What are some of the key details that go into planning events? Odds are, Splash serves most of your organizational needs.

That, and more, in today’s Social Media Roundup:

### Splash Zone

https://twitter.com/sarahconvene/status/324224545282195456

**The event-planning service [Splash (opens in a new tab)](http://www.splashthat.com/)** is giving Eventbrite a run for its money. Not only can event planners sell tickets, but each event page can have photo galleries, contact management, and promotion services. “Splash aims to do for event planning what Facebook did for people: give them easy-to-use tools, such as a website, for promoting and planning events and parties,” [Business Insider reports (opens in a new tab)](http://www.businessinsider.com/splash-startup-ticketing-sxsw-2013-4#ixzz2Qf2bRUPa)
. Since its debut four months ago, Splash has hit about $650,000 in gross sales. *(ht [@sarahconvene (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/Dddddd/status/320252637285060609)
)*

### Finding Content

https://twitter.com/SpeakersOffice/status/324252701410070528

**Does your internet search**for great sharable content ever come up empty? Well, first of all, you have to know where to look. When that fails, get creative. Carol Lynn Rivera, project manager at Rahvalor, has been there. She put together a list of [12 simple ways to find content (opens in a new tab)](http://www.websearchsocial.com/find-content-to-share-on-social-channels)
. “Once you practice a little, and start to develop a content mindset, you’ll find yourself naturally collecting and creating content based on every conversation you have, every post you read, every Google search and question and comment,” Rivera writes. What are some of your tricks for finding great content? *(ht [@SpeakersOffice (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/SpeakersOffice/status/324252701410070528)
)*

What links have you been sharing today? Let us know in the comments.

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[Anita Ferrer](https://associationsnow.com/author/anita-ferrer/)

Anita Ferrer is a contributor to Associations Now.

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