Google Calendar is a great electronic “day planner” that is free to anyone with an account. You can create multiple calendars, view public calendars, share a calendar privately with a group or a friend, or have a group post to a calendar. I'm hoping that with this social calendar, everyone will post events that are open to all program members. This way we can easily check one spot online and see all the available things to do.

A button that lets you subscribe to the calendar.

1. A link that lets you see the calendar
2. You can also set up your computer to be automatically updated everytime the calendar is updated.

Firstly, let me post a reference, as at this point, I've been using Google Calendar for 1.0 hours:

1. http://www.google.com/calendar/ See Google's Overview and Tutorial for a walk-through with pictures
2. http://www.google.com/support/calendar Google's help documents

1. Supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer (MS IE) versions 6.0 and above
2. Supported in Mozilla Firefox versions 1.07 and above
3. I am using Mozilla Firefox (free! and much more secure than MS IE) 1.5.0.2 for Mac OSX
4. The help documents say that a Google account is not required, though I think that the advantages of getting one are many.

1. Google Calendar logs you in at an encrypted site, but then redirects you to an unencrypted zone. To stay encrypted, just change the “http” at the beginning of the link to “https”.
2. Protect your password so that random, malicious people cannot alter and vandalize our calendar
3. The email address used by others to log onto the calendar is private and should not be spread around.
4. Personal information, such as exact addresses and phone numbers, will be visible on the site, so we should probably not post anything more specific than, for example, “Truc-Ha's house” when we mark the locations. Or we can post an address if the host allows.
5. You can make your own calendars, and then invite others to subscribe to them, so random things that the group may not be interested in should be put on a separate calendar. E.g. a separate calendar for your niece's soccer games.

1. I didn't want to get an email everytime someone added or changed anything, so I went to “settings” and turned off all of the notifications. Still, it's convenient, and I may change that.
2. You can set Google Calendar to text your phone, but your phone service will charge whatever it charges for you to get text messages. I get charged 2-5 cents per text message received.
3. I haven't played with the calendar's ability to invite people; I didn't want to be spamming people, so I've just posted events and hoped people looked at them.

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