{"id":2023,"date":"2006-04-12T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2006-04-12T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:52:15","slug":"calendaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/geeked\/web-2-0\/calendaring\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendaring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I want an online Calendar.
\nCurrently I use a paper calendar and the calendar in Outlook. I don’t print my outlook calendar. I just use it for the reminders and for inviting people to my meetings. It’s a work thing. Work standardized on Outlook so who am I to argue?
\nThe paper calendar is convenient because I can take it into all of my meetings.. When someone says something is “launching on May 7” I can flip through the calendar and remind them that May 7 is a Sunday. I can add notes about what happened that day “new section launched on {some site} at 9:30 am” so that later on when someone asks why the traffic patterns changed, I’ll have a note to trigger the memory.
\nI don’t see either one of these calendars going away but I have additional, personal, calendaring needs. There are tons of calendaring sites. I want to do a comparison of these to see how they fit my needs. First I have to define my perfect online calendar.<\/p>\n


\nFeatures I want in an online calendar:
\n– Ability to import events (I dont’ want to maintain the event list especially if it’s already published as an iCal feed on a web site)
\n– Ability to decline events imported from the iCal feed. Just because the imported calendar has an event on it, doesn’t mean I’m going to that event. When I look at the calendar I want to instantly know which events I’m going to. Further when my family looks at the calendar I want them to know which events we’re going to. Ideally, refused events would be greyed out but still show on the calendar (just in case I change my mind and decide to attend).
\n– Ability to annotate events imported from the iCal feed. I want to be able to add my own notes. This will probably be reminders to myself about that event.
\n– If an event has a duration over several days and I set a reminder for the event, the reminder should only fire on the first day of the event (this bugs the shit out of me on Yahoo’s calendar).
\n– Ability to have reminders arrive as email or YIM.
\n– Ability to share calendar
\n– Ability to publish calendar on my blog
\n– Ability to add events to the calendar in an english fashion. I want to add “Meeting with Bob on 4\/16\/2006 @ 4:30” not have to fidget with 100 different drop downs on some insertion dialog.
\n– Ability to add recurring meetings. Especially recurring every-other week (payday).
\n– Ability to associate picture with event (ok, so it’s a nice to have.. but I get all warm and fuzzy when I see a big pastel easter egg in the calendar for Easter)
\n– Ability to forward Outlook email invitations to the calendar and have them show up if I accept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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