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We want Illumine to be a community website for yogis in and around Chicago. So please get involved!
What can you do?
If you are a Yoga teacher or Yoga Studio, join our directory!
If you have an event you’d like to recommend or share with the illumine community–register your event with us!
Please read through our FAQ to get more detailed answers on how to participate in Illumine’s online community.
DIRECTORY LISTINGS HELP
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How can I add a listing to your directory?
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I submitted my directory listing, now what?
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I want to edit my directory listing, can I?
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What's up with adding a photo to my listing?
STUDIOS WE NEED YOUR HELP ADDING EVENTS TO OUR CALENDAR
We would love to add your yoga events, workshops and retreats into the Illumine Events Calendar. In order to make this possible and to accommodate the many events of the many studios in the Chicago area, we are asking for submissions in the form of a .CSV file, which you can do in MS Excel (save as) or Apple’s Numbers application (go to share, choose “Export CSV). Please use our .csv file (click here to DOWNLOAD .csv) or our .xlsx file (click here to DOWNLOAD .xlsx) as your template for filling in content. Please note: the headers need to remain EXACTLY as written, and the values for date and time are very specific.
Instructions for headings:
publish_status: THIS SHOULD BE “draft” FOR ALL YOUR EVENTS
event_name: Your event name here
event_description: Big long description of things goes here
event_start_date: for ex. 09/28/2013
event_start_time: for ex. 6:00:PM
event_end_date: for ex. 09/28/2013
event_end_time: for ex. 8:00:PM
There are separate columns for dates and times, and that the time must be “hours:two-digit minutes:AM/PM” (ex: 6:30:PM) — upper case only
event_location: Best practice for event_location is to lead off with the location name in caps (for ex. VILLAGE YOGA CHICAGO – 123 Street Name 60618). This line appears on the quick view of the Events Calendar and reads better if location name is in caps. Use lowercase in the street name.
event_gmap: THIS SHOULD BE “yes” FOR ALL YOUR EVENTS
event_organizer: Studio Name
learn more: http://www.studioOReventurl.com
Please feel free to type over the text in this template with your information After you have added all your events into the template, please save the excel file as a .csv file and eMail this document to submissions@illuminechicago.com
An illuminechicago.com administrator will review your submissions and then publish them to the site. We expect to turnaround your requests within 48hours.
We prefer to have quarterly submissions, but will accept monthly .csv files. Please do not send duplicates. For example, if you already sent us a .csv file with information about an event in November, do not resubmit this event in your next .csv file.
Thank you for your help and please don’t hesitate to ask questions, or give us feedback on your experience with this aspect of the website.