A tour of the
Grey Bruce Cultural Network
Web site with its builders
Emma Hogbin & You!
www.GBCN.ca

the Web is a scary place
photo credit: iNmO_Khem (flickr)

but it can be tamed
Photo credit: Marc Shandro (flickr)

touring the cultural network
1. creating your account
2. the culture directory
3. the culture calendar

I create
appropriate technology for on-line
communities

My clients are
on-line craft stores, on-line communities, face-
to-face communities, cultural networks,
theatre companies, artists, rural communities,
not-for-profit organizations

the cultural network wants to
help you fill the seats

use the Web site to
1. promote yourself
2. promote your venue
3. promote your organization
4. promote your events

an overview

Main Navigation
Culture
Directory
Login and
new accounts
Communities
Upcoming Events
overview with pointers

the culture calendar

the culture directory

ready? let’s go!

step 1.
creating your account

creating your account
1. click “Create new account”

creating your account
1.
nam
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2. e
m ai
l
2. fill in the blanks

Photo credit: spacejaq (flickr)
wait for your password
to arrive via email

logging into the Web site
3. fill in the blanks, click “log in”

as the kids say these days:

OMG!
f’real?!
That was EASY!

of course it was... now...
let’s get this party started!

(I don’t think the kids really say that)
(so don’t try that at home.)

customize your account

change your login name
change your email
change your password
edit your settings

receive email when th
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site is updated
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advanced options

but how do
you update
the Web
site!?

add yourself to the
culture directory first
then
link your events to your venue
in the culture calendar

entries in the culture calendar
can be LINKED
to entries in the culture directory
when these links are made,
magical summaries of events
appear within the culture directory
(but you have to be in the directory FIRST for these links to work)

step 1. create an account
step 2.
add yourself to the
culture directory

are you
a person, a venue or
an organization?
(or are you all three?)
Note: you do not have to be an artist to be a person in the culture directory!

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adding yourself to the
culture directory

organization type:
hold down the “control”
key and click as many
options as are relevant
comm
unity
locat
ion =
comm
uniti
es
fill in the blanks, click “submit”
show me!

OMG!
f’real?!
That was EASY!

step 1. create an account
step 2. add yourself to the culture directory
step 3.
add your events to the
culture calendar

scroll down to here
adding yourself to the
culture calendar

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fill in the blanks
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OMG!
f’real?!
That was EASY!

the calendar can do more
complicated tricks as well.
for example: multiple
performances of the same show

WARNING
Photo credit: spacejaq (flickr)
this is a little bit harder than
previous steps

ready?!
let’s do it!
it’s not actually hard
I just wanted to use another
scary snake picture

1. click “repeat”
to open this set of options
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repeating events
show me!

well that made sense...

But we want
to add
PICTURES!

Dear John,
I’ve been lying.
You can add pictures.
But first you need to be in
BONUS MODE!

now entering BONUS MODE

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look for “enable rich text”
below the large text boxes

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To add a link:
1. type some text.
2. select the text using your mouse
3. click the link button (2nd from left)
4. follow the instructions.
adding Web links
with rich text enabled
show me!

To add a photograph:
1. open a new web browser
2. go to your photo sharing site (e.g.
Flickr)
3. find the picture you want to use
4. drag and drop it into this window
adding pictures
with rich text enabled

OMG!
f’real?!
That was EASY!

now that we’ve toured the
cultural network
you should be able to
1. create an account
2. add yourself to the culture directory
3. add your events to the culture calendar

we hope you will
use this Web site to
1. promote yourself
2. promote your venue
3. promote your organization
4. promote your events

The Web is now your oyster!
Live long and prosper!
Emma Hogbin
emma@xtrinsic.com
www.xtrinsic.com
www.gbcn.ca