Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Calendar: Revised Presentation

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The calendar that you see to your left would be very easy to add to, if you were to "get added" to the list of organizers benefitting the public awareness system.  There are actually 2 ways to get involved.
  1. If your organization already has a Google Calendar, you actually don't have to do anything different.  Just email NhvOrg@Gmail with the link address to the calendar, and it will be added.
  2. If your organization does not have a Google Calendar but uses some other format, consider exporting all of your events as an .Ics and importing them into the Public Google Calendar which you will be given permission to post in.  Although what you should really consider is keeping a public events schedule with Google Cal.
The goal here?  Even if we can't agree on what the site should look like, at least we can all be on the same page when it comes to events.  Look around.  There's no clutter.  There's not one pop-up window or advertisement for anything (except maybe a flying Miya's fishy which is animated and looks like art)

We can build this thing as a community, without it costing us anything other than the time we invest in making it good.  I've worked to start it, but next year it's your role to take over this site and start making it yours.  If enough people add to it independently of each other, the theory behind my research suggests that it will elevate traffic from every direction.

In the event that it succeeds and people use this platform to post events, review what's happening soon, and maybe plan their weekends around it, the result will be that the traffic will go hopefully in the form of footsteps walking to the events we feel passionately enough to advertise, promote, and share all over the place on other parts of the web, most of which only our 'friends' can see.

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Made-up words in this posting:  "closeful": full of closeness