Locating notices by organization name

Click Search organization notices & Area of Interest on any main page. Enter all or part of a name and click "Search" to display a list of all organizations using that letter combination. Then select an organization name to display all notices posted for that organization.

You can also locate all notices posted by an organization by clicking "Show all notices posted by this organization" in any notice that was posted by an organization.

Locating notices representing your interests

On the same Organization notices & Area of Interest page, select an "Area of Interest" from the pick list. Then click "Search" to display a list of organizations associated with that interest. Next select an organization to display all notices posted for that organizations.

Post so people can find your organization's notices

Anyone involved with an organization can have the name listed in postanotice. First, from any posting page, "Click to search" organization name. If you locate it, simply click Select this organization, and the name will be automatically entered into your notice posting page.

If you do not locate the name, submit a request to have it listed by clicking, List an organization name, from the search page. Please only create an organization name if you are authorized to do so. Fill out the form, remembering to use the official name or the one that members agree is to be used for all notices. Next, select up to three Areas of Interest from the pick list (hold the Ctrl key down to select more than one). We will notify you by email when the name is listed.

Why create an organization or venue name?

To increase exposure.

For visitors to search by area code and be able to see postings for activities, events, meetings, and various support functions.

To have one convenient place for members to see all their organization's notices.

Remember--notices posted for organizations can be searched by organization name, Area of Interest, and viewed in a category by location or other search options.

Area of Interest

Remember that Area of Interest (AOI) is assigned to an organization and notices by those doing the posting, not us at postanotice. And that AOIs for notices can be different than the AOI for the organization posting that notice.

In case you wish to know more than you need to, here's how Area of Interest works.

AOI is associated to organization names and notices separately - there are two AOI database tables, one allowing the organization name to be associated with up to three AOIs, and another different table allowing each notice to be associated with one AOI.

This allows an organization--whose primary area is, say, athletics, to have an art auction fundraiser event and list the notice AOI as Arts, Culture. Anyone searching Arts, Culture in the Events category will be able to locate this notice, even though the organization's AOI is associated with Athletics, Sports, Recreation.

On the other side, if a visitor searches for an organization by AOI, "Athletics, Sports, Recreation," they will list only those organizations with that AOI, but after clicking "Get these notices" will view all notices for that organization - even though the AOI for a notice is Arts, Culture.

In other words, notices can have AOIs that are different from the organization associated with that notice. And searching from within a category, such as Events, will bring up notices with an associated AOI that may be different from the organization AOI.

Any questions?