Thanks to Tom of Trumba, I’ve been playing around with Trumba‘s calendar solutions. They are definitely doing some interesting things and there are some benefits to their solution that go above and beyond the current offerings of Google Calendar I discussed a little while back. In particular, I really like two features they’ve added to the NYTime’s Automotive Calendar that I think could easily be ported to the Seattle real estate scene.
- Feature 1: Submit an Event allows for any user to add an event
- Feature 2: Add This Calendar to Your Site gives some simple javascript so that anyone can add the calendar to their site.
There are two types of calendars that can easily be added to another site. One is a preview calendar shown on my sidepanel (below the comments!) and the other is a “full” calendar shown below.
I really like the distributed collaboration and if anyone wants to add this calendar to their real estate site, it is as simple as copy-and-pasting some code… If you are interested, email me and I’ll send you the code!
By the way, the current calendars on this site do not have the “add an event” feature, but Tom assures me that it will be available in a few weeks! Until then, feel free to email me with your real estate event if you’d like me to add it to the calendar!
One more thing!!! The TechCrunch event looks to be a lot of fun and is coming up this next Wednesday!!!
thanks for the props dustin. we’ll get you your public event submission form in a couple of weeks.
in the meantime, if your readers want to add any of the event info to their personal calendar (outlook, yahoo, msn, apple, google), they just need to mark the check box next to the event and click on “Add to My Calendar”. They can also get email reminders, sms reminders, forward to friends…
if you have google calendar users out there, they’ll want to check out this post to see how smart personal calendars like google’s can take advantage of RCG’s live calendar feed powered by Trumba
http://blog.trumba.com/2006/04/trumba_and_goog.html
Tom
thanks for the props dustin. we’ll get you your public event submission form in a couple of weeks.
in the meantime, if your readers want to add any of the event info to their personal calendar (outlook, yahoo, msn, apple, google), they just need to mark the check box next to the event and click on “Add to My Calendar”. They can also get email reminders, sms reminders, forward to friends…
if you have google calendar users out there, they’ll want to check out this post to see how smart personal calendars like google’s can take advantage of RCG’s live calendar feed powered by Trumba
http://blog.trumba.com/2006/04/trumba_and_goog.html
Tom