[KWPeace-groups] You can put your event on the KWPeace calendar!

[Bob Jonkman]

> Can you please give me some guidance on how to [add an event to the KWPeace calendar]?

Sure! It's not intuitive -- nobody is born knowing how to use computers.

1) Log into KWPeace at https://kwpeace.ca/wp-admin using your e-mail 
address. If your e-mail address isn't recognized, register at 
https://kwpeace.ca/wp-login.php?action=register

2) Look at the menu on the left. If you don't see "Events" with a 
thumbtack icon in the menu let me know, and I'll bump up your access. 
(We don't want the spammers to post events!)

3) Select "Events, Add New" from the left menu.

4) Put in the title of the event, and fill in the blanks for "Event Date 
and Time", "Event Location Details", "Event Cost and Tickets", and 
"Organizer Contact Info". You can give as much or as little contact info 
as you want (not everyone wants their phone number published, for 
example).  Under "Event Location Details" don't click "Show Maps" -- 
Google no longer allows embedded maps.

5) On the right side of the page select one or two categories: "Peace" 
and "Justice", or "Environment", or "Music, Art, Drama". Try to limit to 
two categories.

6) Below categories put the name of your organization in "Tags". If 
several organizations are sponsoring the event, add them all.

7) Write the description of your event in the main input box in the 
middle of the page. Feel free to "Add Media" for pictures, posters, &c. 
Avoid putting in just an image of a poster. In an image the words won't 
be indexed by search engines, and people using assistive devices (ie. 
braillers or text-to-speech) won't be able to read it. So if you put in 
a poster, be sure to type the words in the main input box.

8) Click the "Preview" button. A new tab will open in your browser. Does 
it look OK? If not, go back to the Add Event tab and fix things up. 
Don't worry about the date in Preview, it always shows today, not the 
date of the event. It'll be OK when you publish.

9) Publish! A  Tweet will be sent out automatically, check 
https://twitter.com/kwpeace


If you want to post an article rather than an event use the menu item 
"Posts, Add New" in step 3). It won't have the event attributes (date, 
location) in step 4), and when you publish it'll be visible in 
https://kwpeace.ca/posts/  This is also useful if you're posting a long 
list of events, and don't have the time to enter each of them 
individually.  Posts don't show in the calendar, but better to have them 
as a post than not at all.

If you have problems, send a message to info at kwpeace.ca -- that'll go to 
the kind volunteers who help to maintain the website: Mo Markham, Alan 
Angold, and me.


Is there interest in a quick demonstration of putting an event on the 
calendar at the upcoming Spring 2020 Potluck Dinner Meeting?


Thanx for getting me to finally write some instructions for this!

--Bob.




On 2020-02-19 11:07 a.m., NVEcoboosters wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> I am feeling really stupid but when I log into KWpeace.ca, I don't see a
> place called "new Event post" to copy the information about our upcoming
> event.  Can you please give me some guidance on how to find that?
> 
> Thanks.  Dorothy
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:38 PM Bob Jonkman <bobjonkman at kwpeace.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone: There have been some great event announcements to this
>> mailing list over the past few days. Please keep them coming! That's
>> exactly what this mailing list is for, to share events and announcements
>> amongst the various peace, social justice, and environmental groups that
>> make up KWPeace.
>>
>> You can also put your events on the KWPeace public calendar at
>> https://kwpeace.ca/
>>
>> 1) If your organization publishes a calendar online let me know, then I
>> can add its iCal feed to the KWPeace calendar. As you add events they'll
>> automatically show up on the KWPeace calendar, and that will
>> automatically send a Tweet too.
>>
>> 2) If you're writing up the events for an announcement e-mail or
>> newsletter already, then log into KWPeace.ca and copy'n'paste those
>> announcements into a new Event post; that'll put it on the calendar and
>> send a Tweet too.
>>
>> I try to post new event announcements to the KWPeace calendar when I
>> can, but KW is a really active community and I haven't been able to keep
>> up.  I'd love some help -- if there's someone already reading the entire
>> Internet who wants to add some events, let me know!
>>
>>
>> And while I've got the stage, just a reminder that we're having our
>> KWPeace Spring 2020 Potluck Dinner Meeting in early March. Help pick a
>> date on our poll: https://kwpeace.ca/polls/spring2020  Get your votes in
>> by Monday 24 February 2020 so I can book the Civic Hub.
>>
>> Thanx,
>> --Bob.


-- 
Bob Jonkman  bobjonkman at kwpeace.ca
http://kwpeace.ca/
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