How can I communicate upcoming events to volunteers?

July 18, 2006 2:05 PM

What would allow multiple people to both upload information about events and view events that others have posted?

I coordinate a mentoring program in Boston. I am trying to find a way to allow other program coordinators, mentors, and the young people they work with submit events to a calendar that everyone could view. This in order to make it easier for mentors to find things that they can do with their mentees. Is there an existing web site that would accomodate this kind of information exchange? Ideally, it would be free and would make it easy to both add information about upcoming events and to read the events that have already been posted.

posted by cubby to education (10 comments total)

Honestly?
myspace.
posted by Kellydamnit at 2:10 PM on July 18, 2006

Upcoming allows you to post events, tag them, group them, and share amongst user groups.
posted by lekvar at 2:20 PM on July 18, 2006

Also take a look at Evite and Idealist.
posted by NYCinephile at 2:32 PM on July 18, 2006

Yahoo Groups. You can make it public, or private. Members can choose whether to monitor communications via web forum, (e)mailing list, or both. They can share files and photos, submit events to the calendar, be automatically notified of upcoming events, etc.

Protege: one who is mentored. ("Mentee" seems so obvious, doesn't it? But alas, not a word.)
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 2:32 PM on July 18, 2006

Spongecell

Kiko
posted by mattbucher at 2:38 PM on July 18, 2006

Protege: one who is mentored. ("Mentee" seems so obvious, doesn't it? But alas, not a word.)

hmm?
posted by jckll at 3:07 PM on July 18, 2006

If you're willing to roll up your sleeves a bit, there's an "event" module available for drupal.

Drupal itself is free and open source, but you'll need a website hosting service somewhere to run it. That's pretty cheap though.

This'll be a lot more work to administer, but will give you a lot more flexibility. If something like Upcoming or Yahoo Groups works for you, go with that.
posted by adamrice at 3:18 PM on July 18, 2006

Obligatory plug: WebGUI would make it fairly easy to build a website that would permit this, if that was the approach you wanted to take.

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posted by baylink at 3:59 PM on July 18, 2006

thanks for all the great options, folks. while i don't really oppose it that much, its nice to have choices which are not myspace.

also, "mentee" is language used by the Mass Mentoring Partnership, which supports all mentoring programs in Massachusetts, so I kinda have to use it, even though it's cumbersome (and easily confused in speech with "mentor")

posted by cubby at 6:26 PM on July 18, 2006

Here are some more options for you:

Skobee
Planzo
Mosuki
Meet With Approval
posted by mattbucher at 11:30 AM on July 19, 2006