Meeting Editor

These are instructions for officers of Democratic Clubs (and other allied groups that hold regular meetings) on how to add and edit events listings on BlueBroward.org. You can update your listings at any time by logging in with your password (see below). If you get one of my reminder messages and click on the link embedded in the email, that will log you in automatically to the Meeting Editor screen.

Otherwise, you log in using your email address as your "user name" and entering a password. If you don't remember your password, or if one was randomly assigned to you and you don't know it, there's an option on the login page to have your password emailed to you.

Once you've logged in, you'll see a screen like this:

This is the page that appears after you have logged in. It includes some standard options such as "Change password" and "Update my profile" as well as options specific to your status as a Democratic Club leader. You can post or edit club meeting notices by clicking on the Confirm/correct calendar listings. Listings that you've previously posted or that you have rights to edit are also shown under My Events.

As long as you're logged in, you can get back to this main menu by clicking the MyPage Menu button on the left hand side of the page.

Here's what you see if you click on Confirm/correct calendar listings for My Club:

This allows you to confirm events that will follow your regular monthly schedule, let us know that you won't be meeting during a particular month, or edit meeting details for a particular meeting.

Farther down on the same page is some information related to the standard meeting notice template for your group.

If you want to change this information, click on the Change Template button, and you'll see this web form:

This is what you would use to change your standard meeting day/time or location or contact info. When you create a new event, it will appear with this default information.

For example, if you were to click the "Edit" link next the previously unconfirmed date for Feb. 6, you would see this:

Using this editor, you can add details such as the name of a speaker you're having at this meeting. Normally, the event title is just the name of your organization, but you can modify it to highlight special events (something like "GO GO Democrats Annual Fundraiser").

Multiple people can have rights to edit the listings for your club, so if you'd like to designate someone else in addition to or instead of yourself, you can enter email addresses for those people, and I'll send them a randomly-generated password for access if they're not already on the BlueBroward membership list.

There is another form for adding calendar listings not associated with a particular Democratic Club. From the MyPage menu, click on Add event to events calendar and you'll get a blank form for entering an event notice. Just make sure that the information you enter stands on its own, with a descriptive headline and contact information for people to call with questions, etc.

The "Associated With" drop-down list lets you link this event to any club or campaign for which you have editing rights. But if you add club events through this screen, the details from your club event template are not automatically included – you'll have to type them in manually. Usually, this screen is used more for entering special events or campaign events.

Still not clear how this all works? Write david@bluebroward.org

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