Digital Event Calendars

In our previous post we introduced SailEvent Digital Posters as an effective way to publicise your club’s sailing activities. We signed off with a hint that several posters in chronological order make a Digital Calendar. Here’s an example of what one might look like -

You can have multiple calendars – for instance one for club racing and another for open meetings. (Subscription plan dependent.)

Just like posters, calendars are customisable. You can change the background and heading to give each calendar its own look and feel.

Every calendar has a link for publication on websites, in emails and on social media. I really neat way is to embed a calendar inside a page on your club website: technically it’s called an iframe. Ask your webmaster to set one up (there are plugins for WordPress) and then you have complete no-code control over your calendar from within SailEvent.

Set up your calendars in >Settings >Calendars ready for the next (Northern Hemisphere) season.

Digital Event Posters

You’ve got your open meeting organised, volunteers lined up, NoR and SIs thoroughly checked, band booked. Now all you need are competitors.

The traditional way to spread the word was via paper posters pinned to noticeboards. Who knew who reads them and how effective they were.

SailEvent digital posters are the digital alternative for quickly reaching a wide audience via links on club and class websites, in emails and texts, and through social media.

Simple to create, easily distributed and with the entry form and other key information only a click away. Here’s an example:

Words, colours and images are all customisable and there can be up to seven action buttons giving instant access to

• Entry form
• Entry list (always complete and up to date)
• Notice of Race
• Sailing Instructions
• Official Notice Board
• Results
• Any additional information

Set up is in the new Posters section on the Events page. 

A list of posters in date order is an event calendar. That’s the topic of our next blog post.

New Stuff!

This blog has been quiet of late but that’s not because the SailEvent team hasn’t been busy. Far from it – we have been actively working with a major sailing club to power up the SailEvent experience.

The club, which shall remain anonymous, uses SailEvent for everything from club racing to world championships. Thanks to SailEvent they now have a smooth and efficient workflow from event promotion through entry form and safety monitoring to publishing results. That in turn brings enhanced  management information,  more control and improved competitor communication yet with less manpower and greater efficiency.

It’s now time to make this good stuff available to all. This is the first of a series of blog posts introducing the new features and functions.

The starting point is the Events page. We’ll be covering the most significant additions in subsequent posts but here is a selection of goodies for you

• New event fields. We’ll cover them later but Event Start Date provides the opportunity to sort and filter events by both name and date.

• The Sessions tab lists all sailing sessions scheduled for an event.

• Competitor counts when sorting and filtering competitors. Now you can see straightaway how many there are in, for instance, Fast Handicap.

• A new competitor field – Alternate ID. Use it for tally numbers, bow numbers and the like.

• New icons

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In this post we’ve introduced many new features and functions. Next up are Event Posters, Event Calendars and more.