I'm happy to report that events and meets are more the norm than the exception here on our Mid-Atlantic Club forum. And as your Community Organizer, I've attempted to keep upcoming meets/events "bubbled to the top" by making them a Sticky/Note at the top of our forum for the last couple months. However, as it has become a rather large list of event links at the top...and I'm sure it causes members to have to scroll down to find recent posts...I've changed the layout a little. Rather than have 20 different "NOTES" at the top of the Mid-Atlantic forum to scroll through in order to get to daily postings, I've decided to try this single sticky note thread instead.

Look UP to the top at the "ALL CAPS" sticky/note. Click on it and tell me what you think.

Thanks,
Dave

 

Here's another idea... get a Yahoo Name for the Mid-A folks and put the meets on a publicly viewable calendar. What do you think?

 

I personally prefer it. Makes it easier to find the "current threads" of the day, but could cause people to miss out on new events unless they look in that one particular sticky note...

 

You've tidily summed up both its pro's and its con's. My only hope regarding this format is that we, as knowing members , would deliberately point folks to it now and then (in initial well-wishing, etc.) to get them familiar with its location. In a different way of looking at this format, the *actual* event threads now bob up and down the forum as interest dictates...yet the single "sticky" at the top of the forum makes it easy for members to locate upcoming events quickly within potentially one to three immediate pages of club threads.

The calendar isn't a bad idea either Tep...in fact I *believe* Gregg or Hiroprotagonist had attempted something like this before. But it was the effort required to keep it up that made it unwieldy. With this "sticky" format...Its just about linking a thread that already exists within our forum...and then delete the link (only the link within the sticky) when the events date has past.

- Dave

 

thanks wingman, much, much better

 

Nice to have them all in one place.