Birthday reminders sent to

sarahintampa — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:35:06 -0500

Birthday reminders sent to my cell phone via SMS!

Seriously though, the public calendars are a great feature. However, I'd still like to to see a link from my Gmail that opens up the calendar without having to leave the Gmail page.

Thanks for the pointer,

Nancy White — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:55:49 -0500

Thanks for the pointer, Nicole. I tried it out today. I have made a personal and a "public" calendar to share with my clients.

Nancy White
Blogher Contributing Editor, NPO/NGO
Full Circle Online Interaction Blog

Google Calendar revealed

Nicole Simon — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:39:13 -0500

The long anticipated Google Calendar has been started - but of what use can such a service be to you?

Much anticipated was the start of Google Calendar, because if we talk about social media tools for interaction and conversation, dates are a big part of it.

And as we all go more and more to a mobile, connected life, there is only one place to put those information: online.

One of my big issues with technologies today is the fact that basic, automatable tasks are not supported by technology - and a calendar is one of them. I want to see my appointments in different styles, I want to be able to share part of them, collaborate with others, color those like on a paper calendar and also be reminded to be on time through mail, popup or sms.

So far, my first impression with Google Calendar is a good one. The UI is responsive, and I can do stuff I can do in Outlook - mark a part of the calendar and just type.

Also I can share events with others, make totally public events and also put them via button on my website. As it seems, they use the label system as in Gmail and it works surprisingly well to have the different layers available. I also can imagine using this with other people and be able to see if or if not they are occupied on a given date to make planning of calls, events and alike easier.

I would expect (but have not tested) it to integrate well with Gmail and allow me to add an event into an email and for the other person just to click "accept / deny" to enter it into their calendar.

I am now going to play with it. And one of the first shared calendar is going to be for the blogher blogging and social media meetings so I don't forget them again. ;))

How about you? Why not use a shared calendar for groups you are involved in? It is probably best for such cases to open up a new Gmail account and make the calender in this and share it with everyone in the group so everybody can add it there.

But, as always nowadays: You have to be aware of what you are using and what this means. Over all this joy and all this hype we should not forget that this also means sharing your calendar information with a company which can make use of it in many different ways.

And if you live in a country which actually does have privacy laws: You are giving up those when you use a service like GCal.

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Birthday reminders sent to

Thanks for the pointer,

Google Calendar revealed