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Articles are divided into four broad categories: Dancers, Callers, Social Connections, and CALLERLAB Information.

The first two categories are very broad and contain a large number of articles. Use them when you are browsing to see what sort of information is available but don’t have a specific item or topic in mind. The second two categories are much more tightly focused on specific information relevant to their topic.

Selecting a category will take you to a page that describes the category and displays the articles it contains. For each article the title is displayed accompanied by a short excerpt of the content. You can do a quick scan of just article titles by clicking on the “List of Article Titles” button. Also, you can filter the articles displayed by clicking the Filter by Tag button and selecting a tag from the list. This will reduce the articles displayed to those in the category that also bear the selected tag.

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Search

A search text field appears at the top of the sidebar on the right of every page. Enter a search term and hit Enter or click the Search button.

Entering multiple search words will select any article that contains one of the search words (a logical OR). Example: martinez education will find any article that contains at least one of either martinez OR education.

To force all selected articles to contain a word, precede that word with a plus sign (+). Example: +martinez +education will find any article that contains both martinez AND education.

To exclude articles that contain a word, precede that word with a minus sign (-). Example: +education -martinez will find any article that includes education but NOT martinez.

Partial words will be matched. Example: Searching for tool will also find articles including words like toolbox or footstool.

Contiguous phrases may be found by enclosing them in quotes. For example “lots of stuff about” will only return items with those words in that order. Without the quotes, items with any one of the words will be returned.

If an article is long and you are having difficulty finding the search term within the article, you can use your browser’s search facility (usually invoked by Ctrl-F (Windows) or Cmd-F (MacOS)) to find the text on the page.

Tags

Each article is tagged with keywords that describe the sort of information it contains – for example, “Music” or “Recruiting Dancers”. The Tag Cloud button in the right sidebar displays all the tags that have been assigned to articles. The relative size of the tag indicates how many articles have that tag. To display the exact number of articles, hover your mouse pointer over a tag until a small box displaying that number appears.

Clicking on a tag, whether it appears in the tag cloud, in an article, or in other lists of tags, will take you to a page listing all the articles with that tag. On that page, you can filter the results both by Category and by another tag by using drop-down menus.

Tags vs. Search

Tags are applied to an article by the author and indicate some part of the article is relevant to the subject indicated by the tag. A search will deliver all articles containing that word, even if the word is incidental to the subject of the article.

Other Navigation Notes

Certain articles that collect many items, such as the article containing a list of all CALLERLAB convention session audio recordings, cover virtually all subjects and will have been assigned many tags. To find specific items on specific subjects within those collections, try using your browser’s search facility to search the page you are viewing (Ctrl-F on Windows, Cmd-F on Mac).

Each article page contains a list of the categories and tags assigned to that article. The page also points to three related articles selected by a software algorithm. If you are browsing, this may help you find additional articles.

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