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ArtSlant, a website featuring visual art, artists, galleries, shows, and related events, has created a new advertising opportunity for galleries, next to their Arts Calendar. Artslant covers art in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, and overseas.

For more information:

On the latest offering:
http://www.artslant.com/la/main/show_new_email?template_id=15555&obj_type=User&id=3023&re_id=3206489

General info on advertising on ArtSlant:
http://www.artslant.com/sf/main/advertise

Unfortunately, it’s not yet Talk Like a Pirate Day, we just had another major outage. Our servers at our hosting company were hit by a power outage, and were down today for about 6 hours; also for a couple hours late last night. Our database was partially lost and could not be repaired (believe me, I insisted on talking to anyone who might possibly have a way to do this).

We are now using a copy of the database made last night at 7pm, so any information that you entered between now and then is not available. We do have all emails we’ve received and copies of what was sent, and can reconstruct the basics: payments made and events committed. We will contact personally anyone we know whose paid event is no longer there (fortunately, a small number).

If you entered draft events, or made changes to your organization or venue entries, after 7pm last night, our apologies - that information will need to be re-entered.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@fullcalendar.com .

Our apologies for the lengthy outage Sunday night, July 26. Our hosting company had an unexpected problem with the database holding our data, and it took several hours to get back online. We have restored a copy of the database from Friday night, and have notified most of our affected customers; certainly the ones with paid event submissions that were not recovered. However, there were some draft submissions that were not recovered, and for which we have no information, plus there may have been some new accounts or other information changes that were not recovered. Our apologies for the inconvenience. If there’s anything we can do to make it up to you, please email us at support@fullcalendar.com
-Nancy Tubbs, FullCalendar

FunCheapSF.com is a great website full of mostly free events in the bay area. All fun stuff: music, art, festivals, kid stuff. Johnny, who runs it, is constantly on the lookout for new and different things to do, but they have to be free or really cheap. And fun!
FunCheapSF.com

BiztechDay is a full day of tips and advice for using social media and the web to market yourself and your business. It kicks off with Tim Ferriss, the 4-hour Work Week author, and ends with Scott Heiferman, the founder of Meetup. Just after lunch, George Wright, the VP Marketing of Blendtec, is speaking - the company that did the viral Will it Blend? videos. Lots of interesting and practical panels inbetween.

If you go, come say hi - I’ll be on the Event Marketing Panel at 3pm.

On Saturday, September 27, come check out lots of interesting arts organizations in Mission Dolores Park, in San Francisco. This is a fantastic opportunity for all types of artists to meet organizations that want talent: publishers looking for writers, festivals looking for submissions, dance groups, craft collectives, educational groups looking for teachers.

http://artsandmedia.net/expo/

During the two weeks leading up to the Expo, starting Wednesday, September 10, Independent Arts & Media will be presenting lots of workshops where you can learn a new craft and other artsy topics.

This is a fun day (we’ve been several years now), and if you come, stop by FullCalendar’s table to say hi!

Just opened: a beautiful venue, suitable for weddings, but probably all sorts of offsites and retreats, on Sauvie Island, a wildlife refuge just outside Portland, OR.

Sauvie Dolce

Deb Shadovitz organizes, among other things, MacGathering and MacDayLA, techfests focused on Mac products and technology in Southern California. She’s been doing it for quite a while, and is interviewed here by Andrew Warner, the founder of Mixergy, which hosts a variety of tech and business networking events in the LA area. Deb shares her expertise creating and running large expos and one-day conferences, including designing the content, signing up sponsors, and getting the word out (including using FullCalendar!).

http://blog.mixergy.com/learning-to-organize-a-conference-deborah-shadovitz-interview/

We occasionally hear about venues and services that might be of interest to event organizers, so we thought we’d start sharing them here. Note we don’t have personal experience with these, we’re just passing on the information.

From our inbox today:

I just wanted to drop you a message and let you know that if you have any training room rental needs in Sacramento, AcademyX has a brand new training facility available.

Our facility is equipped with multiple training rooms that can accommodate between 8 to 15 students with workstation and probably twice as many students without. Each workstation in our training room is equipped with:

- Dual monitor (one for student and one replicate’s the instructor monitor)
- High Speed Wireless Internet access
- Office 2003/2007, Adobe Creative Suite and much more
- Comfortable leather seats and spacious desks

The facility is located in Natomas close to Arco Arena and right off the freeway I-80 and Truxel Rd. Map and directions to our location can be found here:

http://www.academyx.com/about/map3

Tonight there are some minor problems with the website that should be fixed later this morning (Tuesday). You can enter new events, but you’ll only be able to add the long description for now. Apologies for the inconvenience.