Short guides. No fluff.

Everything here is something people ask us often enough that it was worth writing down. Pick the track that sounds like you.

Using Akron Pulse

Short walkthroughs of the parts of the site people tend not to find on their own. None of them take longer to read than they take to do.

Search, the Filter and Sort tray, and the List, Calendar and Map views. Start here, everything else assumes it.

3 min read

Stack a few events into a plan, see them on a map in order, then hand the whole thing to a friend as one link.

3 min read

Pick your community, set the audience toggle, and cut the categories you never want. This is the tuning most people never find.

3 min read

The preference center is deeper than most people realize. Ten minutes there and the newsletter stops being general interest.

2 min read

Install it like an app on iPhone or Android, and use it the way it is meant to be used, which is out of the house.

2 min read

How to get your events listed, how to write them so people click, and how to set your own website up so this stops being a chore.

Email, form, organization, venue. Which one fits you, and what our review actually does to your submission.

3 min read

Titles, start times, the image, that first sentence. Small stuff, and it decides who shows up.

4 min read

Publish a feed once and stop submitting forever. This is the one that pays you back every month.

5 min read

Recurring series, moved dates, cancelled nights. Handled right, none of these turn into duplicates.

3 min read

A live calendar on your own site, themed to fit, plus the portal for organizations that post often.

4 min read

Something you wish was in here? Tell us what you got stuck on: byron@akronpulse.com.