Make Your Public Event Calendar Usable To All
If you run a sports club, this post is for you. If you are on a community committee, this post is also for you If you host events, this is for you. If you put on shows, this is for you. In fact, if you do anything that has a date/time component that you'd like to share with people, this is for you . Yep, probably for all of us. Sharing calendars can be both: an effective way of letting everyone know a complete and utter technical pain in the bottomly region If you've posted up an events page onto your website you know how difficult it is to keep up to date, how the readers have to keep coming back to get the latest changes and don't even think about integrating with somebody else's "events page". Ok, so we all know the problem. What's the solution? iCalendar (normally shortened to iCal) ... yep, it's a geek word that you will come to know and love just as much as RSS. In fact, think of it as RSS for calendars. But that's enough geekery, if you want
This reminds me of when a flatmate at the time was doing I think her honours year, then fees & loans came in which were pretty devastating for her. She was aiming for (and did) Phd. $60K dept later :( Like looking at something which you know will be bad... and from beginning of the tunnel not the end.
ReplyDeleteOn political note, definitely some explaining to do there.... just typed 'glad I'm not a politician' then deleted it. What does this mean I wonder?!