Events listings, photos, and more

In addition to setting up this website, we’ve also established HART in a few other places around the web.

Posting events at Upcoming.org

Our first stop was to create an account on Upcoming.org, which is an public calendar website. This allows up to post our events as well as other events we feel people should know about. The calendar is searchable by town, region and so forth and it allows people quick access to maps and driving directions to the event location as well as the ability to export the event to their personal calendars (in Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, etc.)

Our events page and the calendar in the footer are both driven by our calendar on Upcoming.org. Clicking the name of an event will take you to that event’s page on upcoming, where you can add it to you own calendar, get directions, etc.

Posting photos at Flickr

We are also using the photo-sharing site Flickr to host photos on the web. They offer us free storage of up to 200 photos and also allow us to embed additional information in the photo such as who is in it, where it was taken and when, etc. You can even leave your own comments on our photos or mark them as your favorites. We may be integrating a photo feed into the site in the near future, but in the meantime, you can check out our pics over there.

Mailing list moved to Google Groups

For nearly a year, Kelly McCarthy has been graciously sending out our announcements and updates from her own email account. It wasn’t so bad when we only had a dozen or so subscribers, but the list has become quite large and it no longer makes sense for us to send messages out this way. For that reason (and a few others I will get to in a moment), we have moved the HART announcements list over to Google Groups. If you were already on our mailing list, you should have received an invitation to join the new list. If you can join on this page by filling in this form and hitting “subscribe.”

So what are the benefits of using Google Groups? Well, for one, it allows multiple members of our steering committee to send out messages (should Kelly be out of town or otherwise engaged). It also automatically archives all of our messages, so if you accidentally delete an email (or 5 million), you will still have access to the archive on our Google Groups site.

More to come

Over the coming weeks we will be adding a lot of new features and content to the site, so stay tuned.