A Brief About-The-Site Note Concerning Events Listings



I'll admit I'm not the best at doing events listings, but a couple of things worth repeating pop into mind while trying -- and largely failing -- to process a new batch of hopeful e-mails.

1) I don't as yet link to Facebook events pages from CR. I don't like it on principle (I think Facebook is for contacting one's friends or fans, not for communication business to business), I get a dozen or more complaints every time I do it, and Facebook graphics are too difficult to make use of for a link. I'm happy to add Facebook pages to my calendar on Facebook, and maybe one day I'll change my mind or simply be defeated by the rolling tides of history, but for now you have to have a link to give me that's not on or related to a sign-up service. Since I live on the side of a butte in the middle of nowhere, I don't even read the Facebook invites that come to me via Facebook.

2) All I need to post your event is basic info, a link and (hopefully) an image -- stuff that's less than a half-minute to put together. If it takes me more than that half-minute to find any of this stuff, I tend to give up and delete the e-mail.

3) I'm never going to list everything. Although I don't adhere to these kinds of guidelines like they're nerd contracts that must be followed to the word, I do try to only list events I could conceivably see myself (or, in the case of some special events limited by gender or age, some version of myself) attending.
 
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