PFLAG OMAHA - Community News Archive: December 2004

OMAHA, NE

Nebraska GLBT Events.com - a statewide community events calendar - Not a resource site. Not a news site. A year round calendar site! Nothing more, nothing less!

This brand new site provides GLBT and supportive individuals, organizations and businesses the opportunity to list and promote their meetings, conferences, festivals, shows, and other exciting events. Accessible from any Internet connection, the site presents a simple calendar format - easily providing for a complete listing of GLBT related events across Nebraska.

AND the site will provide charitable donations to many of the very groups which use the site. With start up costs sponsored by the Nebraska Pink Pages and Rainbow Celebrations, the site will rely on banner advertising and donations from supportive persons across Nebraska to stay online. Site maintenance, hosting fees and operating costs will be recouped, and then remaining money will be granted via charitable donations throughout the year!

The brainchild of Chris Shepherd (Nebraska Pink Pages) and Troy Haasis (Rainbow Celebrations), Nebraska GLBT Events.com fills a void in the GLBT communities of Nebraska. In the past, several ventures have attempted to provide event listing along with other venues. To date, no successful formula has proven to work in promoting the many events across the state. By creating a site strictly devoted to promoting all the EVENTS in the community, Shepherd and Haasis hope to avoid the pitfalls that have befallen any previous predecessors.

Both Shepherd and Haasis firmly believe that once the GLBT communities of Nebraska can easily see the many events which happen almost daily across our state, attendance and support will increase. Rather than searching through every organizations or businesses websites to find the events, Nebraska GLBT Events.com presents everything at a key strokes length.

No strangers to the GLBT Communities of Nebraska, Shepherd and Haasis both bring considerable knowledge and background to this new venture. They hope to use their experience to make the site a community success. Together, Shepherd and Haasis - under the Nebraska GLBT Events.com banner - hope to further their efforts on behalf of the many persons, organizations and businesses which form the GLBT and supportive communities of Nebraska.

Many people have commented that there has been nowhere to go to find ALL the events happening in our communities. By providing a new avenue of promotion for ALL events across Nebraska - the Nebraska GLBT Events.com Calendar site looks to fill that void! Log on and check it out today NebraskaGLBTevents.com - there’s something for everyone!

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