I've spent a good bit of time over the past week messing around on Google Calendar. We've decided to use that for the church's calendar so that everyone can see it easily and so that we can distribute the right to add things throughout the staff. The calendar is here if you're interested. It's also embedded in our newly redesigned website.
Amanda and I went to the Cullman versus Walker game last night, which was pretty fun. I saw quite a few people from the church, so I guess maybe I should wear a polo shirt instead of a t-shirt next time. Oh well, it was fun talking to everyone outside of the church.
It'll be interesting to see how the Foxsports commentators do on the Alabama game. They can't be any worse than JP, whose commentators just praised an Auburn defender for his excellent coverage on a play where the ball hit the defender on the back of the head and Brandon Cox just happened to pelt the guy on his helmet. At least we can listen to the Bama game on the radio if they're too bad.
3 comments:
Peter,
Any idea how you all did this...I want to go ahead and see if I can do this with our church calendar.Man, would that ever be an answer to prayer.
Thanks,
David
Basically, all you need is a gmail account and to go to calendar.google.com to start the calendar. I haven't figured out how to adjust which calendar is "primary," since that's the only calendar that you can utilize the "Daily Agenda" function on (which is a kind of cool deal where they send you an email at 5 a.m. each morning with everything that's on your calendar for that day. It sends to the gmail account that you set up the account under, but since gmail can be set up to forward for free, you can just forward it to the account of your choice.
What I did on this one was to set up a new gmail account for the church, hoping that whatever we did could be passed on to whoever came after me. After that, I just went into calendar.google.com and started entering data in. It's relatively intuitive once you get into it to enter in data.
For sharing it, you click on the manage calendars tab and edit the sharing settings. I set the church's calendar to be visible to everyone. Under Calendar Details, they list html, xml, and ical formats where anyone can access them. They also have a configuration tool which creates the html to embed it in the website.
Let me know if you have any questions, or would like a gmail invite.
Yeah ... the radio guys aren't much better.
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