Acoustic Folk Music Series Moves to Somerville

[notlobmusic.livejournal.com]

NOTLOB ACOUSTIC CONCERT SERIES AT CLARENDON HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WITH THE SUPPORT OF ARTSOMERVILLE, PRESENTS JOHN FLYNN, GREG GREENWAY, THE FOLK BROTHERS, MARY MCCASLIN & GEOFF BARTLEY w/ DIANE WILMONT

• September 20 ~ Greg Greenway & John Flynn, hosted by Naomi Arenberg, Producer/Host of “Folk on WGBH”.
• November 1 ~ The Folk Brothers (also appearing 11/2 in Cummington)
• November 15 ~ Mary McCaslin & Geoff Bartley w/ Diane Wilmont

Venue:

Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powder House Boulevard, Somerville.

Doors 7:30pm
Concert 8:00pm
Suggested donation $15 ($10 for Tufts undergrads with id)

For more information about the upcoming season please read…

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Comments

LJ and Internet advice

[cos]

Making an LJ-cut is pretty simple, and one of the things you really need to know when participating in LJ communities like this one. The simplest way to do it is to just put <lj-cut> at the point in your post where you'd like the cut to be. Whatever's above the cut will show up on people's friends pages when they read, and there will be a "Read More.." link for them to see the rest.

You can also change "Read More..." to say something else, whatever you want it to say, by doing <lj-cut text="whatever you want..."> instead of just <lj-cut>. (You can also have multiple cuts in one post, but you can read about how to do that later if you want, it's not necessary to know here).

Also, if you want to be an effective promoter online, I highly recommend learning to write for the web, which is very very different from writing for print. In particular, you should know that for the most part, people don't read on the web until they know they want to read - mostly, they skim, and only pick a few things to spend more time on and actually read. If you present people with a large block of text, it's hard to skim, and it's hard for them to extract at a glance the information that will tell them whether this posting is something they want to spend time reading; as a result, you will turn away most people who might've been interested. They'll glance, not know whether they want to read it, and quickly move on to something else.

As a community moderator, I'm going to ask that you put an LJ-cut in this post (probably right after the list of three upcoming concert dates, right before "for more information ...").

As someone who wants to see you succeed, I'd also recommend rewriting this post so it is better suited to a web rather than print audience, though that would take more time.

[ron_newman]

This is great news, but please please insert an lj-cut as cos described above. Also, put the essential information (artists, location, dates) before the cut, and the less important info after it.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

To follow-up on the above comments in a more hard-assed way, please lj-cut this post (pretty much entirely) or I'm going to delete it later this afternoon.

I also would like to see it succeed, so please do this. Thanks.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Deletion ultimatums with short deadlines for well-intentioned posts make me unhappy.

"To follow-up on the above comments in a more hard-assed way"

[notlobmusic.livejournal.com]

Thanks, boblothrope.

You know, there always seems to be one malcontent in every message board

Re: "To follow-up on the above comments in a more hard-assed way"

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I'm a mod and I speak on behalf of many folks who were annoyed by your post. Posting to a community without reading and understand the posting guidelines isn't very neighborly.

Re: "To follow-up on the above comments in a more hard-assed way"

[ron_newman]

To be fair, "don't post heavily formatted text" was an implicit rule rather than an explicit one until today. Don't take it personally. Your events sound great and I plan to attend one or all of them.

Re: "To follow-up on the above comments in a more hard-assed way"

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Putting long posts behind a cut has been explicit for quite some time.

And frankly, if we let people/things we think are "cool" do what they want and only enforce the rules against the ones we don't like, we look pretty damn bad.

Re: "To follow-up on the above comments in a more hard-assed way"

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Ok, then change the rules so that a poster who doesn't include a cut has more than a few hours to add one before the post gets deleted.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

People who post without reading and understanding the guidelines make me unhappy.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Why? If you see a long over-formatted post, you can press your Page Down key and move on. But if a new poster's message gets quickly deleted because of a misunderstanding over formatting that doesn't get corrected by a short deadline, nobody gets to read it.

second moderator's note

[ron_newman]

Adding to the above: most folks don't care much about the history of the series, who performed in it earlier, or that it used to be at a historic house in Jamaica Plain.

What we do care about is that you are presenting three concerts in Somerville this fall. When you rewrite the post, please include the admission prices and how to buy tickets in advance (if you do advance sales). Also, where does the name "Notlob" come from?

Re: second moderator's note

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the name "notlob" comes from Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch.

Re: second moderator's note

[notlobmusic.livejournal.com]

Did you notice the logo in the poster?

Re: second moderator's note

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent! :-D

[ron_newman]

It looks like you are trying to do an lj-cut but it is not working. My advice is to use plain text only, and avoid the Rich Text editor entirely.

[notlobmusic.livejournal.com]

Appears we've discovered an unadvertised feature.

From the "help" page (first entry):

Known Issues

* If you are using the Rich Text Editor to post an entry with an lj-cut, and the text behind the cut includes certain kinds of formatted text, such as a LiveJournal user link, the lj-cut may not display correctly. Developers are aware of this issue and are working to correct it.

[ron_newman]

Ouch. Where is this help page?

Another good reason to entirely avoid the Rich Text Editor, imho.

[ron_newman]

Thanks you for fixing the entry. But please do one more thing: put back in the location of the events.