June 05, 2007
Sunbird and Google Calendar
I often have people wondering where I am. You know — Revenue Canada, bill collectors and the ex.
No, seriously though, it's more like business associates, clients, friends and family.
Last year I tried using an email notification that I sent out to my clients. This worked well, but there is always someone who misses receiving the message. This year I decided to use a calendar.
I learned that Google has a service you can sign up for that allows you to publish a calendar. Besides a public calendar I also wanted a private calendar, and preferably one that wasn't on the Internet. Sunbird was the answer. Using Sunbird I can create a private calendar and a public calendar and if I want to, I can view them both at once. See the image below:
The blue entries are public and
automatically published to my Google calendar.
The public calendar integrates with my Google calendar, and anything published in Sunbird automatically updates my calendar in Google. As well, if I am someplace other than in my office, I can add things to my Google calendar and the next time I open Sunbird in my office, it will already be updated from my Google entries.
Once you have signed up for the Google calendar you can copy the code to put it on your site so it displays in your site template. You can see mine here.
You can find instructions on how to set this up here.
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