What are communities on Cloomba?
A community is a public page where your events add up. People follow it, and each new event you add reaches all of them — the audience from your last event carries to the next one.
What communities are for
Communities work well for:
- Recurring event series — a monthly meetup, a weekly class, a seasonal program
- Organizations — a company, venue, or community that runs multiple events
- Topic-based collections — all tech events in a city, all events from a festival
What is on a community page
Every community has its own public address on cloomba.com. The page shows:
- The name, description, logo, and banner, with the home city and any links the organizer added
- Upcoming and past events — as a list, or on a week, month, or day grid
- The people behind it: organizers, speakers, and partners
- Follow, and a feed menu to subscribe in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook, or by RSS
- Membership tiers, when the community offers them
- Submit Event, when the community accepts events from other organizers
How events get on a community
Every event has one home. You pick it first when you create the event, or leave the event on your personal calendar. To change it later, select Change community on the Community card at the bottom of the event's Overview — see Moving an event to another community. Beyond its home, an event can be listed in other communities: a second community of your own, or someone else's community that collects events like yours. A listing only adds a place where the event shows up; the home stays the one it belongs to.
Community owners and admins can also list events that happen outside Cloomba — a link, a date, and a place — so the community shows everything in one view.
Your personal calendar
Every Cloomba account has a personal calendar. It is private: it has no public page and no followers, and it holds only your own events. It is the first card under Your communities on your Communities page, named Personal. Open it to see its events, the People who came to them, and its Payments.
To give it a public page, followers, and owners and admins besides you, open its Settings tab and select Convert to a community. This can't be undone.
Events from other organizers
A community can accept submissions: anyone signed in proposes a published, public event from the community's page, and the owner or an admin approves or declines each one. Nothing appears in the community — and no follower is notified — until it is approved. See Submitting an event to a community.
Following a community
Any Cloomba user can follow a community. Followers see its upcoming events in Following in their account and get a notification when a new event is added. Following a community does not register you for any event — you still register for each one individually. See Following a community.
Memberships
A community can offer membership tiers — free or paid, open to everyone or approved one by one. Members see members-only events on the community page and can buy members-only tickets. A member is always a follower too.
Writing to your followers
From the community's Newsletters tab, the owner or an admin can email everyone the community has reached: people who follow it, people who came to its events, and contacts added on the People tab. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and anyone can turn community newsletters off in their notification settings. See Community newsletters.
Communities vs events
An event is a one-time thing with a date, a guest list, and a registration flow. A community is what accumulates around your events: followers who hear about each new date, and one page that shows everything you run. They work together — your events get more reach through your community, and your community grows as you add more events.
You can also put the community's calendar on your own website — see Embed your community calendar on your website.