Every community has several venues - broadcast, print, and online - where local events can be listed and advertised for free. I'd like to put together a comprehensive list of all such calendars statewide and their submission deadlines, to ensure that area Appleseeds are on them all, and I need everyone's help. Wherever you live in Arizona, take a look around - where do you get your community info? What are your local newspapers, daily, weekly, "alternative," online; radio or TV "Community Calendars," etc. Make a list of the ones you see in your area, find out their submission deadlines and contact info, and post them here. For example, a quick look around Tucson reveals the following:
Tucson Weekly: Deadline noon Monday, 10 days before publication date.
http://posting.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/SubmitEvent/Page
or email to listings@tucsonweekly.com
Arizona Daily Star (calendar): Deadline three weeks before event.
http://dynamic.azstarnet.com/calendar/index.php?lang=en&admin
(community notes) tkjos@azstarnet.com
Tucson Citizen (press release):
http://tucsoncitizen.com/non-wp/pressrelease/
Arizona Reporter:
http://www.azreporter.com/news/
I assume that Tucson local TV and radio also offer such calendars, but since I've never heard one myself, I'll need to do a little digging to find out for sure.
Thanks everyone!
That is very helpful, Scott.
I would also suggest CraigsList and Backpage as well as local gun forums you may frequent.
If you are a member of my forum at ZeroGov, we also list it there: http://zerogov.com/forum/ (http://zerogov.com/forum/)
Great idea Scott, let's use every resource we can to promote AS in Arizona.
Colton
To be more specific, I'm looking for everyone who lives anywhere in Arizona to tell me where they go to find out what's happening in their local area. I could do a websearch and come up with a pile of here-today-gone-tomorrow online calendars that nobody ever sees - and yeah, since it's free and easy I'll post to those too - but what I really want is to know which ones the locals (i.e. you) actually use when they're looking for something to do. I want to make sure those are at the top of the list. :pop:
None often, but Phoenix New Times http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/calendar/ and or KUPD http://98kupd.com/calendar/2012-01-05--2012-02-04/30/all
When I am looking for concerts and or something out of the norm to do. I would not chalk an appleseed to that, but for many it would be out of the norm.
I think I might go to them once in a great while.
With the New Times we might want to see if we can get someone to cover a shoot.
Not minded in some ways normally to the shooting sports, but they are kind of freedom loving folk...so we would need to be on our game, but all in all I think it would be a win. Our events are quirky enough that it would peek some interest.
Very Large reader base, if one of the major stories, huge plus. I believe they are the best written and most entertaining periodical in Phoenix, very editorialized, not my leanings, though I enjoy reading it when I pick it up. Most of the people I know who read it are not the target audience at all, but their writing is fresh and like I said entertaining.