Canberra Dance News

We don't keep anything apart from 'Regular Event' listings; we forward items as we receive them, and if we get enquiries back we forward them to the source of the item.

Subscribing

Canberra Dance News is sent to the following three lists. You can choose whichever list best meets your needs.

1) "Canberra Dance News" Google Group.
All emails are sent to this group.
You can join or leave this group at http://groups.google.com/group/canberra-dance-news
You can see the most recent issue of Canberra Dance News at the same address.

2) "CDN No MFS Announce Duplicates" Google Group.
If you are also subscribed to the "MFS Announce" email list then this may be the group for you. All emails are sent to this group, except stop-press emails that have been sent to MFS Announce. This saves you from receiving duplicate copies of such items.
You can join or leave this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cdn-no-mfs-announce-duplicates
You can see the most recent issue of Canberra Dance News at the same address.

3) A manually maintained list, for folk who cannot (or prefer not to) join a Google group.
All emails are sent to this list.
You can subscribe or unsubscribe by emailing canberradance(at)gmail(dot)com

If you join one of the Google groups and receive duplicates from the manual list, please let us know and we will remove you from the manual list.

If we don't announce otherwise, you should hear from us every month. If not, maybe:

1) The email went to your "spam" folder. It's not spam of course, so you should be able to mark it as "not spam" or add the sending address to an "ok sender" list in your email client.

2) Your email address failed - we apologise for the inconvenience and ask that you rejoin one of the lists so we can welcome you back to the news.

Reciprocal Arrangements

We are interested in promoting bush dancing and Canberra Dance News (CDN). If you are interested in promoting a related dance style and wish we could help each other, then this message is for you.

We can place short items in CDN, but it all takes time and makes a longer email, so we request some modest help in return.

We have had event organisers who sincerely thought that we should place their items in CDN but they should not even place a one-sentence acknowledgement and link to CDN in their newsletter, because "their audience only want to read about their dance style". Needless to say we see this as trying to prevent their audience seeing our message at worst, and free-loading at best.

However we are sure this does not apply here, so if you are interested in reciprocal publicity, please let us know.

If you have a regular email newsletter then if you place something like the following ad in your emails either as it is or marked "Links" or whatever, then we will publish your brief items in CDN.

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We appreciate the support of Canberra Dance News: For free email news about bush dancing and related dance activities please see
http://dance.pcug.org.au/lists.htm

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If you do not have an email list then maybe you could put out small CDN dodgers instead? The Canberra Dance News dodger is in our Posters Gallery at http://dance.pcug.org.au/. It is 6-up on A4 so a couple of printed copies will make a dozen dodgers to put out.

If you have a web page we can place reciprocal links to each other's web pages if you wish. Our page is http://dance.pcug.org.au/

We want to enter into reciprocal publicity arrangements, so if you feel well-disposed towards us and our cause, please let us know what you are doing, or can offer to do, and chances are we will agree to place your brief items in Canberra Dance News.

Regards

Barbara & Lance

News Items

News items need to be ready for publication (ie succinct, no more than half a page) and should generally include Date, Event Name, Venue, Time and contact details for further information. The source email address will be published.

News items should be sent to as plain text in the body of an email and marked something like "For Canberra Dance News" or "For CDN".

If you need pictures etc, you could consider putting up a web page and including the web address in your news item. Note though that many readers have email but not web access (due to workplace policies etc) so the essential details should still be in the email. Many readers can't, won't or don't open attachments either, and we never forward them. We don't open attachments, due to the virus nuisance, so please send plain text in the body of your email.

You may want to email advance notice as soon as you decide on an event, and then a notice for the issue before the event. In general, please don't request more than three notices for any event.

Feel free to include your upcoming dates in a succinct 'Dates for your Diary' format, up to half a page for the total message.

If you run regular events then from time to time you may wish to briefly report on how it has been going along with details of the next event in the series. A news item before the start of each series would be entirely appropriate.

Dates will be included under "Upcoming Events" or "Dates for your Diary" each week until the event date. Regular events will be included under that heading until you advise otherwise.

Publication will generally be in the issue following receipt but is not guaranteed. We will tell you if we decline to forward your item perhaps because it is too long or not relevant to the list. If you don't receive an acknowledgement please remind us - we may have missed it in the flood of emails that we receive each day. The editors reserve the right to edit for the sake of brevity, bearing in mind that if we send out too much then our readers unsubscribe in droves, but it is better all round if you do the editing before sending the item for publication.

Your Privacy

You are sending your message including your contact details to a large private list. To protect you from automated spammers we will NOT publish your email address to the web. We will send the full item by direct email to anyone who requests a copy, and to the people on the list. We cannot control any forwarding of your message, and if (for example) you send the item from work but want your home email address shown as the source, please tell us that in your message (you might say "Please forward to list, from X@home.org"). We don't keep any record of your preferences, so if in doubt please spell it out for us, that is much better than us sending our recollection of your currently preferred email address out to 500 people.

In order to protect your privacy we do not supply addresses, but we will forward messages to individual members if we have their address.

Checklist

- Dance-related
- Succinct no more than half a page
- Plain Text no attachments
- Date, event name, venue, time, cost, contact
- Marked "For the list from " or some-such
- To canberradance(at)gmail(dot)com
- Reciprocal Link
- Deadline second-last Saturday of the month