Before you can submit an event, you have to be a member and register your organization that is producing the event. If you're already a member, all you have to do is login and click on the "SUBMIT" link, and the system will ask you for information about your organization. If you're not a member yet, we've got a registration process that will get both you and your organization in the system quickly: click here.

Once you've done this, you will have both a personal membership and an organization membership. Your personal membership takes care of getting you the events you're interested in, your organization membership lets you submit events. In the same way that you've got a personal profile that keeps track of your information, your organization profile will let you manage the information about your organization and its events. Your organization profile also shows you the number of thisishappening members that have subscribed to you.

When submitting an event, you will need to enter standard information about the event, such as date, time, location, cost, and type of event. Please specify as much as you can about each event to help potential patrons find your event.

There are four different ways your events can get to members:

1. An editor picks it to go out as one of the featured events.
2. A member is subscribed to your Organization. This can happen two ways: (1) when a member registers they can choose you from a list of Organizations in the system, and (2) they can pick you when they click on a "Send me more events like this" link that appears on every event.
3. A member is subscribed to an Event Type that corresponds to an Event Type you chose when you submitted an event. (An example: you're putting on a poetry reading. When you submit the event you use the appropriate section on the form to tell the system that this is a "Literary" event and a "Poetry" event. Anyone who has told the system they want Literary events or Poetry events automatically gets your event sent to them.) Please note that picking the high level categories, rather than specific sub-categories, does not necessarily get your event to more people. If someone is subscribed only to "Music:Rock:Indie" and not "Music", and you just pick "Music", they don't get that event.
4. Anyone can browse and search the database.

We think you'll find the system will substantially increase your ability to communicate with the types of audiences you wish to reach. If you have difficulties using the system, please let us know how we can improve it to better meet your needs.

For organizations that already have their events in a database, or have a large volume of events: We're building technology that will let you automatically publish your information into our system, without having to use the webforms. There will be an announcement about this feature in a future message.

On 10/26/04, we introduced the capability for you to save a set of event information as an Event Template. As an example, you could fill in all the basic information (such as website and contact), pick event categories, and fill in sponsors. Once you've saved this information as a Template, it can all be recalled with one click. This is particularly helpful for organizations that have large numbers of events and/or events that share much of the same information. The procedure:

1. Click on Submit as usual, fill out the information that you would like to have included in the Template. The exact state of the page is saved, so if you regularly use the advanced time/date option, you'll want to switch to that mode. Whatever you have entered into the Event Name field is used as the name of the Template.
2. Instead of clicking on the "Finish" button as you would normally do to submit an event, click on the new "Save as Template" button:
   
   You'll now see a new item at the top of the event submittal page to manage your Templates (you can make as many as you want):
   
3. To load a Template, recalling all the information you saved, just select the one you want to use and click the "Load" button.
   
   Any Template can be deleted by selecting it and clicking on the "Delete" button.