Do you have a Human Rights Network-related event you want to publicise to fellow Network members, as well as the broader public?  This site's Events are often a great way of doing this.  Events items have their own panel prominently displayed on many locations throughout the site:

As you might expect, the upcoming events are displayed so that the nearest event is at the top of the list.  The calendar displays all the events for the current month.  You can scroll your mouse over the days marked as having events, and a "tool tip" will give you a brief description of it. You may also scroll through the months by clicking on the small arrows at the upper left and right of the calendar, although viewing the special Events section is probably easier.

Events are a major component of the Network's weekly newsletter, the HRN Bulletin.  Let's go through an example to see how easy it is an add an event. Go to a folder where you have permission to add content. You can do this in your member folder. To see your member folder, make sure you are logged in, and click on the my folder link in the personal bar in the upper right hand corner of the site:

Once you have clicked on my folder you will be taken to the part of the website where your folder is stored, displaying your folder and its contents:

To learn more about your folder read this.  To add an event, click on event from the add new item menu:

The new event is immediately created, albeit with no content yet.  The fields to be filled out are:

• Short Name: Depending on your preferences, you may have the option of entering a short name. This identifier will become part of the event's web address.  As the instructions on the form say, a short name should not contain spaces, upper case, underscores or other special characters. It can contain a hyphen. If you do not enter a short name, the site will generate one for you—however it will look like something a computer and not a human has generated!
• Title: This will appear in the Bulletin and wherever events are displayed, so keep it brief but descriptive.
• Event location:  Although this is not always required, it's obviously important.  This is also included in the Bulletin and wherever events are displayed.
• Event Type:  From the list, click on the most appropriate category for the event (you can choose more than one).  If you can't see one that matches your event, save the event, and once you've done that contact us and we'll see if it is appropriate to add another category.
• Description:  This will also be  included in the Bulletin, so a good description is always helpful.  But keep it brief.  This should not be too long.  See the tips below for good strategies to keep it down to a suitable length.
  
• Event URL: An optional web address that gives more details about the event, if necessary.
• Event Starts and Event Ends: You need to specify both the start and approximate end of the event, including the date and the time.  A handy way to specify the date is by clicking on the image of the tiny calendar, which will display a date chooser.
• Contact Name, Contact E-mail and Contact Phone: this will be displayed in the event details.  The e-mail address is automatically protected against harvesting spammers, in case you are worried about that.
  

When you have finished, click save, and you will see something similar to this:

Tips

• If you create an event and decide you no longer want it, you must manually delete it, even if you have just created it and it has nothing in it.
• To have the event appear in the calender and appear in the HRN Bulletin, you need to submit it for publication.
• Events are meant to have fairly brief descriptions.  If you need to go into some detail, then it's time to add a news item in addition to the event.  The news item can go into more detail.  Then when you submit the event for publication, you submit the news item as well.
• If you have something that should be attached to the event, for instance a registration form, you will have to add a news item with the document as an attachment.    For instance you could submit an event, a news item which publicises the event in some detail, and have the news item refer to the registration form.  See the add a news item tutorial page for details on how to do this.