Dance Web

a step-by-step walkthrough on how to add material to the community dance calendar hosted on this site:

1) If you don’t already have one, get an account with Google.

1a) Go to www.google.com

1b) Click on “sign in”

1c) Click on “create account now”

1d) Fill in the form

2) Tell me the email address you used to create the account, send it to danceblog|(a)|rojisan.com, and let me know that you’d like your events added to the community calendar.

3) Log in with your Google account, go to https://www.google.com/accounts/Login

4) Go to http://www.google.com/calendar/

5) Click on “Add Event”

6) Fill in the information for your event, make your event “Public,” and invite “Dance Blog” as a guest to your event.

That’s it. What you do with your own calendar is up to you, but your events should now show up on this calendar.

If you’ve already got events on your Google calendar, and you haven’t added “Dance Blog” as a guest, you can go back and do that anytime.  If I’ve approved you for posting to the community calendar, they’ll automagically show up here as soon as you do.

after doing some tests overnight, the new google-based calendar is now available.

this allows some great features, including good support for recurring events, but the trick is that you will need an account with google (gmail will do) in order to publish your events. once you have one, you need to get in touch with me so i can give you permission to add things to the community calendar. after that, just invite the “dance blog” to any event you add to your own calendar and those events should automagically show up here.

another advantage to this approach is that you can use your own google-calendar on your own site, and you get to decide which events are published there (and here).

so, jump in, the water’s fine…