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Put Our Calendar on Your Web Site!

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Two Types of Calendars for your own Activist Site or Personal Page

You can have the events listed on our calendar appear on your web site or personal page, and it's surprisingly easy to do.

Leverage our extensive calendar to add dynamic activism opportunities and content to your site. You can be spared of having to keep your own calendar constantly updated. Just submit your events to ActivistResource.org and they'll appear on your site automatically.

Use our RSS event feeds to "get the word out" on activism to your friends, via your facebook.com, MySpace.com, Yahoo.com, Tribe.net, Friendster.com, or similar personal page.

An RSS Calendar Feed

We offer an RSS document, to allow placing our listings on your "My Yahoo" and other portal pages. The RSS link is:
http://ActivistResource.org/calendar/rsscal.php

If you'd like to limit the geographical range of the listings shown, you can add certain parameters. The parameters allowed are numlistings, dist, and zip as described in the section below, such as
http://ActivistResource.org/calendar/rsscal.php?numlistings=15&dist=20&zip=10019

Facebook: You can put calendar events on your facebook profile. Go to your "profile" page, scroll to the "Notes" section (usually at lower left), click "See All", find the "Notes Settings" area in the upper right, click "Edit import settings", and setting the URL to our RSS feed link, such as http://ActivistResource.org/calendar/rsscal.php

Myspace: If your personal page is on a site that doesn't support RSS feeds (like Myspace),
you can still have a feed appear on your site by having the feed appear as an image, using a site like http://MySpaceFeed.com

Here's a feed image we've already created, that shows all New York State events:

<A HREF="http://ActivistResource.org/">
<IMG SRC="http://myspacefeed.com/rssimages/348.png"
STYLE="border: 1px solid red;"><BR>
<B>Calendar by ActivistResource.org</B></FONT></A>

You can put the above code right in your MySpace profile.

Contact us for any other requirement you might have, to customize your RSS feed: [show email address]

...or ...

A small version of our web calendar on your site

With just a few lines of HTML, you can place our calendar into a web page on your site, just like the little "Coming Events" listing box below. You can also customize the calendar to only show your organization's events, or events of a certain type or location.

A few examples of sites that are doing this:

http://MidEastCrisis.org - Top of page, Middle-East events only
http://WomenAgainstWar.org - Peace-related events near Albany only
http://FriendsOfHudson.com - "Valley Events" on left, environmental only
http://BongoBoy.com/peace - Down page on right side
http://DutchessPeace.org - "Upcoming Events" on left
http://DutchessGreens.org - "Happening Now" on left
http://GroundScore.org - Right side of page
http://PeaceAct.net - Albany area peace events only
http://NewPaltzGreens.org/ - "Events" on left
New York Metro Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - On left

Here's the snippet of HTML to include in your page's code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"
SRC="http://ActivistResource.org/calendar/caloffsite.php?numlistings=10">
</SCRIPT>

You can change the "numlistings" value to display as many upcoming listings as you want.

If you want a limited width table in a sidebar of your site, you can wrap the call in a table as such:

<TABLE WIDTH=180><TR><TD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"
SRC="http://ActivistResource.org//calendar/caloffsite.php?numlistings=10">
</SCRIPT>
</TD></TABLE>

Please email us to let us know you're putting our calendar on your site, so that we can alert you to any changes in the future. Our technical email address is [show email address]

If you want the listing customized (for instance, only listing peace events), we can arrange that. Just email at [show email address] and let us know your criteria.

Changing the way the mini calendar displays

If you would like to change the geography or appearance of the listing, you can do it by adding one or more of the following parameters after the numlistings=10 parameter in the HTML snippet:

Mini Calendar Parameters	Notes
&zip=12202	events near this ZIP code
&dist=100	within miles of ZIP
Without the above, events from all locations will be shown. If you are referencing hvan.org instead of activistresource.org in your HTML code, events will be automatically limited to those in the Hudson Valley area (including New York City and Albany).

Some regions and their zip / distances:
&zip=10019&dist=20	NYC
&zip=12601&dist=75	Hudson Valley
&zip=12202&dist=60	Hudson-Mohawk
&zip=12883&dist=60	North Country

Appearance Parameters: (shown with their defaults)
&descrlength=0	max length of event description, otherwise no description
&title=Coming+Events	make sure you use plus signs (+) where you want spaces
&titlecolor=white
&titlebackgroundcolor=CC0000	a dark red
&backgroundcolor=white
&borderwidth=2	in pixels
&bordercolor=0000CC	a dark blue
&textcolor=black	(links are the color specified by your page)
&textscale=1	(multiplied times the 10 and 8 point text sizes)

Note: Numeric colors must be specified without the hash marks ("#") or with URL encoded hash marks ("%23").

Here is a table of some common web colors if you need a starting point. It will open in a new window.

Events, actions, and organizations represented on this site do not necessarily represent the views or methods of the site's editors. ActivistResource.org does not endorse any particular event or organization, but merely provides a venue for the dissemination of information that appears to be activist in nature, and might not be welcome on mass media calendars.