{"id":945,"date":"2010-02-05T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:52:28","slug":"facebook-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/02\/05\/facebook-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently set up my next performance as a Facebook event. It&#8217;s the <em>Grande Messe des Morts<\/em> by Berlioz in Colston Hall, Bristol, on Saturday February 13th at 7.30 p.m., performed by the South West Festival Chorus and Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jason Thornton with Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts as tenor soloist and Gavin Carr as chorus master.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/event.php?eid=319863580358&amp;ref=mf\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/event.php?eid=319863580358&amp;ref=mf', 'http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/event.php?eid=319863580358&amp;ref=mf');\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/event.php?eid=319863580358&amp;ref=mf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colstonhall.org\/whatson\/Event1260\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.colstonhall.org\/whatson\/Event1260', 'http:\/\/www.colstonhall.org\/whatson\/Event1260');\">http:\/\/www.colstonhall.org\/whatson\/Event1260<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can invite my Facebook friends to this event, and they can in turn invite others; it&#8217;s completely open. But the facility to browse events is essentially useless.  The most focussed you can get is to browse all musical concerts, and of course there are a multitude of those. It used to be possible (say) to see &#8216;What&#8217;s on in Bristol&#8217; on a given night and be shown a list of public Facebook events in that place that night but you can&#8217;t do this now (I suspect it went when networks were dropped).  I once created minor trouble by setting up an event which had admission by pre-booked ticket to an invited audience, in order to find out who else was going to it. Tickets weren&#8217;t checked on the door, and several people came along having found out via Facebook about the distinguished performers and got in free.  I&#8217;m not terribly sorry about this, as there was space enough for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to my Berlioz concert, the event doesn&#8217;t show up on Facebook searches. This means I can&#8217;t tell members of the choir how to get hold of it and advertise it to Facebook friends &#8211; only those who are my FB friends, or who have been invited by them, are going to come across the page.  This strikes me as a serious flaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently set up my next performance as a Facebook event. It&#8217;s the Grande Messe des Morts by Berlioz in Colston Hall, Bristol, on Saturday February 13th at 7.30 p.m., performed by the South West Festival Chorus and Birmingham &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/02\/05\/facebook-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}