With Google’s recently released calendar feature, they’ve made social networking of events much easier. With this in mind I’ve pre-populated a public calendar with real estate technology events that can be shared (and managed) by a group.
So far, the events that I’ve added to the calendar include:
- Pygmalion, The Wizard of Oz, and Chevy Chase
- 2006 Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo
- Developer’s Day at SF Connect
- 2006 Leadership Summit
- Bloginar by Dustin and Russ in Seattle
I’d REALLY like to get some other people interested in real estate technology involved and then we can all work together to keep updated on events no matter what part of the country they occur.
At this point, I’ve tested it out with Galen Ward and he was able to manage the calendar with me (i.e. add, edit and invite people to events). If you’re interested in helping us out with this calendar, just let me know and I’d be happy to add you as a manager as well. (You will need an invite-only gmail account, so let me know if you don’t have one and I can get you one!)
For everyone else, here is an RSS feed of the calendar which can be added to your feed reader so that you can be updated each time a new event is added.
If you want to learn more about Google Calendar, Stopdesign gives a bunch of very useful tips and tricks to get the most out of the tool.
Great idea Dustin. If you want to try a richer calendar publishing tool, feel free to check out Trumba. We’d be happy to help you get started with a community submission form, upcoming event blog widgets, custom rss feeds, email updates, etc. It’s free btw 🙂
As a neutral 3rd party who has compared Google Calendar & Trumba, my vote does go to Trumba. We will be implementing a Trumba calendar in the redesign of my local REALTOR Association website.
Sorry, meant to add the link: http://www.trumba.com
Tom and Brad,
Thanks for the information… I’ve read about Trumba in the past (mainly from John Cook’s coverage…) and I’m definitely interested in talking with you. It is quite possible that you could offer a solution that would definitely be superior.
My hesitation with using Trumba is that a calendar (and an invitation system like evite) is best suited being a feature of a set of tools and not a stand-alone program. I really like that the Google calendar is integrated with my email program (gmail). Nonetheless, I’ll take a look at Trumba today!
Tom and Brad,
Thanks for the information… I’ve read about Trumba in the past (mainly from John Cook’s coverage…) and I’m definitely interested in talking with you. It is quite possible that you could offer a solution that would definitely be superior.
My hesitation with using Trumba is that a calendar (and an invitation system like evite) is best suited being a feature of a set of tools and not a stand-alone program. I really like that the Google calendar is integrated with my email program (gmail). Nonetheless, I’ll take a look at Trumba today!
Hi Dustin:
Appreciate you keeping an open mind. Our published calendars support download to Google Calendar (not to mention Outlook, Yahoo, MSN, and Apple too) as well as RSS and email feeds. We add new features at least once a month so if you’d like to see other things, just shoot me an email. tom – AT – corp.trumba.com
I actually think Google calendar is a great personal calendar and we see ourselves as organizational or community event calendars.
Tom
Brad, nice to meet you. Thanks for the props. The offer of priority feature suggestions goes to you too!
Tom,
I’m definitely interested in learning more and I’ve just sent you an email! I’d love to have a solution that integrated with Outlook and Robbie will attest that Google doesn’t need any more of my support! LOL!
Tom,
I’m definitely interested in learning more and I’ve just sent you an email! I’d love to have a solution that integrated with Outlook and Robbie will attest that Google doesn’t need any more of my support! LOL!
Tom,
The email I sent to you bounced back… Let me know if you didn’t get it and I’ll try again!
Tom,
The email I sent to you bounced back… Let me know if you didn’t get it and I’ll try again!
Dustin-
How is this applicable to real estate brokers, agents and allied real estate professionals?
Individual branch offices or independently owned franchises now have the capacity to make announcements to staff regarding events via the internet: broker’s opens, public opens, staff meetings, office events, training events–such as your Bloginar of course!
Individual agents can apply this to their own practice for their clients benefit: scheduled showings, open houses, advertising schedules, listing appointment, vacations, mortgage progress updates, placement into their own Blog….lot’s of potential.
Although a totally different platform, our Closing Calendar accomplishes a similar benefit to our core clients: personalized transaction updates for buyers, sellers, agents, mortgage and others–24hrs/day. Plus, everyone can see our entire closing schedule and plug your client into a date that is less busy/frantic for escrow staff.
Tim
Dustin-
How is this applicable to real estate brokers, agents and allied real estate professionals?
Individual branch offices or independently owned franchises now have the capacity to make announcements to staff regarding events via the internet: broker’s opens, public opens, staff meetings, office events, training events–such as your Bloginar of course!
Individual agents can apply this to their own practice for their clients benefit: scheduled showings, open houses, advertising schedules, listing appointment, vacations, mortgage progress updates, placement into their own Blog….lot’s of potential.
Although a totally different platform, our Closing Calendar accomplishes a similar benefit to our core clients: personalized transaction updates for buyers, sellers, agents, mortgage and others–24hrs/day. Plus, everyone can see our entire closing schedule and plug your client into a date that is less busy/frantic for escrow staff.
Tim
Great question… How could this apply to real estate community in a more broad way?
Personally, I set it up because I keep hearing about events a few days before they occur and/or while they are going on and I’ve love to have some more head’s up about real estate technology events going on around the country. I figure that if a group of interested people all use one calendar for events of interest, there is a much greater likelihood that we end up finding out about interesting stuff early.
In my mind, calendars represent one small piece of the entire social networking pie that is pretty undeveloped in the real estate community. Although as you state, there is already a place for a public calendar, so this is just one step in making that the updating easier.
Great question… How could this apply to real estate community in a more broad way?
Personally, I set it up because I keep hearing about events a few days before they occur and/or while they are going on and I’ve love to have some more head’s up about real estate technology events going on around the country. I figure that if a group of interested people all use one calendar for events of interest, there is a much greater likelihood that we end up finding out about interesting stuff early.
In my mind, calendars represent one small piece of the entire social networking pie that is pretty undeveloped in the real estate community. Although as you state, there is already a place for a public calendar, so this is just one step in making that the updating easier.
I tried to download the calendar, but was unsuccessful, so I’ll just put the info here.
Another event that might be of interest to those with a website or blog is the Search Engine Forum May 19th at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle. SEF was founded by Danny Sullivan, a leading expert in SEO. For those new to the game, you can learn to submit URLs, use HTML meta tags and boost placement from an expert. I’m doing great in Google, but what happened in Yahoo? New algorhythm? It’s making me crazy…. maybe I’ll find out.
http://www.jupiterevents.com/sewlive/may06/index.html
I tried to download the calendar, but was unsuccessful, so I’ll just put the info here.
Another event that might be of interest to those with a website or blog is the Search Engine Forum May 19th at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle. SEF was founded by Danny Sullivan, a leading expert in SEO. For those new to the game, you can learn to submit URLs, use HTML meta tags and boost placement from an expert. I’m doing great in Google, but what happened in Yahoo? New algorhythm? It’s making me crazy…. maybe I’ll find out.
http://www.jupiterevents.com/sewlive/may06/index.html
Hi Dustin,
I didn’t get your email but just sent you one; hopefully we can connect soon. Since you asked, our Pro version has an Outlook synch add-in if that’s important to you 🙂
Marlow, it’s funny you brought up Jupiter since their research arm uses a Trumba calendar here:
http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/events/
Hi Dustin,
I didn’t get your email but just sent you one; hopefully we can connect soon. Since you asked, our Pro version has an Outlook synch add-in if that’s important to you 🙂
Marlow, it’s funny you brought up Jupiter since their research arm uses a Trumba calendar here:
http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/events/
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Hi Everyone:
I took a look at some of the events on and published them on Trumba. Take a look and let me know what you think (feel free to try out the Add to My Calendar feature in particular).
http://www.trumba.com/calendars/rain_city_guide
There’s a ton of other stuff you can do like embed it inside any web page or add a smaller widget to your blog headlining next 3 upcoming events etc.
Tom
Trumba Evangelist
tom{@}corp.trumba.com
Hi Everyone:
I took a look at some of the events on and published them on Trumba. Take a look and let me know what you think (feel free to try out the Add to My Calendar feature in particular).
http://www.trumba.com/calendars/rain_city_guide
There’s a ton of other stuff you can do like embed it inside any web page or add a smaller widget to your blog headlining next 3 upcoming events etc.
Tom
Trumba Evangelist
tom{@}corp.trumba.com
Tom,
You’re too darn cool… That’s a great calendar and I definitely plan on following up with you. (I did try to respond to your email, but again, my message bounced back. 🙁 )
I’ll definitely call you up early this week!
Tom,
You’re too darn cool… That’s a great calendar and I definitely plan on following up with you. (I did try to respond to your email, but again, my message bounced back. 🙁 )
I’ll definitely call you up early this week!
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