This website is a vanity project by Tim Baggaley. By day, he writes, designs and builds websites and by night, he dances. In Alfresco Tango, Tim is bringing his business communications and marketing skills to the social scene he loves so much.
This is not a business venture, it is a labour of love. In keeping with this spirit, event organisers may list only free, outdoor events. If you are a professional dance promotor, you are welcome to list any free, outdoor events but not paid-for ones. By all means, link to your specific event post within your professional website. If you have any questions, get in touch.
Join the listing
To appear in this listing, you’ll need a public Google calendar and a page to link to with all of your event details. That’s it. You then send us your Gmail address for your calendar and we add it to the Alfresco Tango listing.
In brief
- Use your existing Gmail account or create a new one;
- Go to the calendar app;
- Make the primary calendar (top of the ‘My calendars’ list) ‘visible to the public’;
- Send your Gmail address to Alfresco Tango, and
- That’s it!
You are responsible for your event information in your Google calendar and the page it links to. Any changes you make to your Google calendar will appear automatically within the Alfresco Tango calendar within two minutes.
How to create your public Google calendar
You’ll need a Google account. If you have a Gmail address then you have a calendar. If you don’t have a Gmail address, go ahead and create one, using whatever name you choose. If you have a Gmail account but don’t want to use the calendar attached to it, create a new account. Note, that our integration connects the first calendar within your Google account. It cannot connect to any subsequent, public calendars.
And that is it, job done! Send your Gmail address and we’ll add your calendar to our listing.
Your entry in our calendar
Your event listing in your Google calendar needs a few fields filling to populate your entry in the Alfresco Tango calendar.
2: Set the event date and time (if it is a repeating event, you can set this here for reoccurring entries);
3: Set your event location, and
4: Enter a brief description with a link to your event post for the full details.
Once your Google calendar is connected, we’ll create a test page that will not be linked in our website but which we will share with you so you can see how your listing will look. We’ll send you a link like this one. You can tweak and tune your Google calendar entries and when you are happy, we’ll make your listings live in the Alfresco Tango calendar.
Calendar entry protocols
There are two important rules for your Google calendar entries. Keep your event description (4) to a single sentence. To keep the Alfresco Tango calendar neat and tidy, we limit the size of our calendar entry spaces.
Secondly, the link to your event details must go to a post about the event you are promoting. It must be a free (requesting donations acceptable), outdoor dance. You may link to Facebook posts. Do not link to the front page of your website or any other page that is not specifically about your alfresco event.
A tip here: for better SEO, do not make the text of your link to your event page ‘more info’ or similar but put ‘full event details here’ or similar. When Google indexes this, it ‘understands’ what the link is about – ‘more info’ is rather vague.
Our raison d’etre
Alfresco Tango’s mission is to promote outdoor dancing. With your collaboration, we hope to build a resource listing alfresco milongas and in so doing, promote interest and participation in the social dancing of Argentine tango. If you have any questions or suggestions, then please get in touch.