While Events In Plain Sight was created, primarily, for self-orgnizing communities to list and find events for and by their community at a certain scale, running it all by yourself can be a bit daunting. Last week the Teams feature finally landed. This also opens up the 'brand led community' market segment.
A hyper-local Community should be officially launched this week. Getting it all wired up properly revealed some issues that were fixed and some improvements that were made.
#Features
#Teams (Pro and above)
When a Community has a Pro or above subscription, they can invite others onto the Team. Whomever is the person who initially created the Community is the Owner and is the only one who can add other Team Members or do Billing. Other than that, Team Members can do anything else; edit the Community itself, edit any Event in the Community, and moderate new Events (if enabled, also a Pro or above feature.)
As a result of this, the Community edit page was re-worked to use tabs; Settings, Team and Danger Zone for a much nicer experience editing things.
#Bug Fixes and Other Things
- The new Community is sports related and so a new organization type of 'Team' was added. (Yes, there are two different uses of the word team this week, soory.)
- Some of the teams in that Community share a Location, so the Location create screen was reworked. You can now search for a Location in that Community and attach a team to it, or create a new one. Locations are really exposed right now as a first-class thing, but they will be soon.
- Also, when you create a Location, it now redirects you to the League it was created for / attached to so you can immediately make an Event
- Tagging Events is a key feature, but configuring the Tags was a bit of a pain requiring the user to enter a list separated by commas. It is much nicer now.
- The LinkedIn page is now linked from the footer on the marketing site
- Added support for avif and apng image files
- Reworked how OpenGraph is handled on various pages to facilitate nicer sharing of things
- Replaced the static robots.txt file with one that a) works with the Facebook crawler as it apparently is non-standard in reading the file (shocked-face) and produces a sitemap that is contextually correct
- The Location that is selected by default in the Event create screen is now the one that has the most Events for that League, not just the first one created
- A few exceptions in the Community creation proocess were also fixed, but it mostly went smooth
#Marketing
I've been going through all the leagues in My Derby Diary one geographic region at a time. I've done Canada, New England, Mid-Atlantic and am working my way through the Midwest. When a region is done, I email each league letting them know about the site to try and get the flywheel started. Am I allowed to use this quote as social proof?
Holly shit, this is beautiful!!
The map show exactly how far I've got. It takes about 2 days to do a State. Hopefully some of the lesser populated ones go quicker.
#This Week
- Replace free-form State/Province and Country fields with something else so searching for 'USA', 'U.S.A', 'United States', etc. works on Organizations
- And Locations
- Add static banner 'ad' upload for Pro subscriptions
- Start to think about refactoring the Map, Events and Leagues pages to have sharable urls