Google Calendar Background Infofrom http://sites.google.com/site/techtipstuesday/Is your New Year's Resolution to get organized? Yes - then you need to give Google Calendar a try. If you have a Google or Gmail account - then you have access to a powerful Calendar system. Just go to http://calendar.google.com. With Google Calendar you can keep track of everything in your life - birthdays, events, school activities, appointments -- whatever you need. The beauty of the calendar system is that you can combine all events onto one master calendar but also separate them into individual color-coded ones. One of my ALL-TIME favorite features of Google Calendar is the email integration. You can automatically add events to a calendar when Gmail recognizes a message that contains a date - all you have to do is click on the link in the sidebar of your Gmail and voila - it's added to your calendar. I use several color coded calendars for different categories - family calendar, birthdays, school events, and professional development events. I can easily view or hide one category at a time - or see everything together. When adding an event to the calendar, I can choose to set a reminder, or invite specific people to events. If they accept the invitation - the event will now show up on their Google calendar. Now my husband can't tell me I "forgot" to tell him something -- all he needs to do is check his calendar. You can view the calendar by day, 4-day, week, month or as an agenda. You can even print out a paper calendar each week/month. Other users can see your calendar if you choose to publish your calendar and make it public. We do this for the athletic schedules and school events for Valley Catholic School. See how they are used at http://www.valleycatholic.org/about/calendar.php Some other great features are:
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