1. Check the Google Calendar -
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=3bb3buph2sacrtvmici65p80tk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_AngelesThis is important for both scheduling and promotion. Gareth’s calendar at the welcome center pulls from the Google calendar and lets people know about events in-world.

If you lead a group and need perms to add/change events on the calendar – please contact Abbey Zenith.

All events are scheduled using Pacific (Second Life) Time.

Events scheduled on the calendar are limited to events occurring on the IA or events by groups that originate on the IA islands.While we can’t avoid scheduling events during other events on different IA sims from time to time, please try to avoid scheduling events during a time that another group has an event scheduled on the same sim. If two events planned on one sim during the same period are fairly small (10-20 people) it may work out – but please contact the other group and work together!

2. Go to www.secondlife.com/events and schedule your event on the public listing of events so people can find them in search! If you are unable to do this (land/group permissions may need to be set first), please let your sim manager, Abbey Zenith, Hypatia Dejavu, or Rocky Vallejo know.

3. Create a texture and a notecard to promote your event. The easiest way to do the texture is to create a PowerPoint Side, save it as a jpg and upload it into SL. Drop both the texture (copy/mod please) and the notecard to BuddhistLibrarian Ballyhoo. She will see to it that they are placed in the event signs at the welcome centers. We have a board for CVL events and one for educational/non-profit events that are held elsewhere.

4. Send out a Group Notice – if you do not have perms to do this and need them please let Abbey Zenith, Rocky Vallejo or Hypatia Dejavu know. Group Notices are most effective when sent out a few days before the event and again the day of (but not just before the event, group IMs work best for that!)Group notices are limited to events occurring on the CVL islands or events by groups that originate on the IA.

Please feel free to use the Librarians of Second Life and the Second Life Library 2.0 groups for all ALS group/island notices. Do not use special groups, such as Jazz Cat, Reader’s Garden, Genealogy Scribes, etc. to promote activities not directly related to those groups without the consent of the group owners or officers. (Group members have the ability to turn off notices or leave the group if they feel they feel that they are being spammed, so please don’t negate the hard work of these groups to build membership.)

5. Send news of your event to Lori at librarypromos@gmail.com on Tuesday by 6:00 PM. These are sent to the M2, posted to infoisland.org, placed in CVL Kiosks, etc.