The Strategy
The following regional calendar strategy is simple. It involves:
- Regional standardization on the free Google Calendar by organizations and
residents and
- Judicious use of the description of each public calendar to transform a collection of individual calendars into a regional calendar.
Existing calendars need NOT be displaced by or even affected by the use of Google Calendar. Rather, they will be supplemented.
| The disadvantages of calendars like Trumba as a regional calendar standard (compared to Google) are: |
- $99.95/month fee for single user compared
to free for Google.
- Cannot be readily compared/merged with an
individual's personal Calendar except laboriously one event at a
time.
- Cannot be combined into a single calendar
for a composite view of your favorite list of organizations
calendars.
- Cannot bring all the regional calendars into a single list with one simple search by any organization or resident.
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It's true that regional Google Calendars could duplicate the information on existing internet calendars, but no other way to allow easy calendar inter-operation across the entire region and beyond is known.
- The strategy is enabled by the Google Calendar
tool, appropriate naming of each calendar AND careful use of the
description field published with each calendar.
- The inclusion of well known key regional place names in each and every calendar description will ensure that a Google calendar search using any of those words will return all the appropriate regional organizations' calendars to the searcher.
Next - The Advantages
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