If it's a regularly scheduled dance, same week is good for email or FB. You can go further ahead with FB since it will stay on your upcoming events list until/unless you click on "not going"
For special events, especially if you expect people to plan travel & lodging, a few weeks at minimum. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:05 PM, James Saxe <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question for organizers who use Facebook to publicize > their dance events: How far in advance of an event do you send > out a Facebook invitation? > > Sufficient advance notice can give time for some buzz to build > as people get to see that other people have marked themselves > as "Going" or posted replies. But with too much lead time, > people could decide not to plan that far ahead, and by the time > the event draws nearer they could have forgotten about it. How > much lead time is a good compromise? > > The frequency of dances might also be a consideration. Sending > invitations two or three weeks in advance might make more sense > for a monthly dance than for a weekly dance. I'm currently one > of the organizers for a dance that runs on 2nd, 4th, and 5th > Saturdays, so dances are usually two weeks apart but occasionally > only one week apart. A similar situation would apply for a dance > that ran on, say, 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturdays (or Wednesdays, or > whatever). I know one series that runs on 1st and 3rd Saturdays > and 4th Fridays, so that about once ever seven years they have > consecutive dances on Friday, February 28 and Saturday, March 1. > Dances could also be closer-spaced than usual if a special-date > event is *added* to the calendar (instead of *replacing* a > regularly-scheduled dance). Organizers could want to get timely > word out for whichever event happens second, but not want to > stomp on the earlier one. With a calendar on a regular web page, > you can just list all the events, with as much or little > special emphasis on any particular ones as you choose. But what > do you do about timing the Facebook invitations? > > Thanks. > > --Jim > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/organizers<http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/organizers> >
