Calendar Announcements Subcommittee

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The Calendar Announcements Subcommittee provides FA members with a spreadsheet of places to post their meetings and information sessions online as well as instructions for how to do it.  The Calendar Announcement spreadsheet lists over 1300 sites, organized by city, state and country. To get your city listed on the sheet, email weblinks@foodaddicts.org.

Service-Related Resources:

• Online Calendar Announcements Resource (OCAR)
• Calendar Announcement Instructions
• Eventbrite Logos for use when posting your meetings to Eventbrite.
• Craigslist Post (includes sample text & logos/graphics)

How to Post Calendar Announcements:

1. Type the word “calendar” in to the FA website search box. Go to the Calendar Postings and Public Announcements page.
2. Click on Posting Announcements Online
3. Click on the Online Calendar Announcement Resource (OCAR) link to go to the OCAR spreadsheet with a list of sites to post free calendar announcements.
4. Read the tabs along the bottom of the OCAR spreadsheet. The first tab is: How To Use OCAR. Read this tab thoroughly before going to the next tab.
5. Click on the second tab, Comprehensive List of Sites, to see several websites where you can post a free meeting event. The list is organized by Country, State/Region, and City. National sites are listed at the top of each country. Use these to post to any city in that country. For example, Eventbrite can post to any USA city.
6. Click on the URL for the publication/radio station/newspaper that you wish to post to. Do a control-F to search for the specific words listed in column F of the spreadsheet. For example, “post event.” When you find those words on the website page, click on the link to start the process.
7. Use the 3rd tab in the OCAR spreadsheet: Calendar Announcement Text, to get some script examples to write in the announcement you are constructing.
8. For more detailed instructions on how to post a calendar announcement, read the document, Calendar Announcement Instructions. Here you will find even more information on how to do a calendar announcement.
9. The 4th tab in the OCAR spreadsheet: FA Logos, allows you to get logos to upload to your event announcement.
10. If you are not finding enough event sites on the OCAR spreadsheet for your specific city, email digitaloutreach@foodaddicts.org with the name of your city and state or city and country, and we will add more event sites to your city so you can post your local meeting or post the FA website as a resource.

For more information call Margaret, Digital Outreach Chair, at 415 336-5529 or email: digitaloutreach@foodaddicts.org. 

Learn more about the other subcommittees that form FA's Digital Outreach.