Google Calendar At Work!

I talked about how Google Calendar can help folks promote stuff the other day, and I got an example available at my movie blog, Movie Exchange.

Some notes:

  1. Layering calendars is cool. Google Calendar allows you to create new calendars within your existing calendar account, so you can create stuff like Village Basketball League Schedule or Office People Birthdays, and elect to display or ‘layer’ it on top of your ordinary schedule (I use the word layer to steal a term from Photoshop, because that’s what it reminds me of). This lets you share that schedule that (and that alone) with a select few people or the whole world, without bothering them with superflous info such as the basketball team championships weekend.
  2. Unfortunately I came onto a venue prob. The Cinema One schedule I put up (for June 21-25, check the link), has two venues, SM Manila and SM Megamall, showing two movies on the same date and time simultaneously. Therefore the schedule has conflicting entries, with movie 1 showing 11am, June 21 at Megamall and movie 2 (or sometimes movie 1 too) showing at SM Manila at the same time and date. The default view does not differentiate by venue, so until I can figure that out, it’ll have to do as is.
  3. The Calendar can be displayed three different ways! First is an XML version, then there’s a downloadable ICAL version, which lets you sink it into desktop calendars like Outlook, Palm, Lotus Notes or your cellphone scheduler, then finally a HTML version, which is a basic HTML output of what you entered.
  4. My fave part of course, is the “Embeddable” version, which is a basic frame of the calendar. Here’s the link again to the Movie Exchange post where I used it (I know I can paste it onto this blog but I really want you to visit the site. Pretty please?). Anyway, iframes are ok, but like I said before, I wish they’d just give us a basic feed Feedreader style, so I can use CSS and stuff to prettify it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Google wasn’t first with this as this is hardly edgy stuff, and if I look hard and long enough I might find some other calendar app out there that does even more, but here’s where Google’s name comes in. Google allows other people to subscribe to your calendar, meaning of course they have to start their own Google calendar / account, and since that’s Google, they most likely have one already or at least was planning to. That lead gives them the edge.

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