What would I do without my Google Calendar?

The web application I want to talk about is Google Calendar. Google Calendar is an interactive, and easy way to organize your life with a few clicks of a button. The above hyper-link takes you to the easy accessible website where all you need is a "g mail" account to sign up for your own calendar. I made my own personalized calendar labeled "Emily's Calendar", and what is so great about this site is that it is so easy to follow. I can organize all my events I have throughout the week or month by just clicking on a time slot on the day I have something scheduled. I simply type in my event and there it is, for me to recognize when something is coming up. The website is very much to the point looking. If you know how a regular, hard-copy agenda is set up, then you won't have a problem understanding the lay out of this site.
One great thing about having this interactive calendar, agenda book type thing online is because seeing as how I am always online, I am constantly updating it and being reminded of things to do. Being a busy college student, this interactive site makes it more fun to write down my assignments instead of using the old fashioned pen and paper idea. Some of the benefits of Google Calendars are as follow, "Events are stored online, so in the case of a user's hard drive failure, no data is lost. The application can import Microsoft Outlook calendar files (.csv) and iCalendar files (.ics) (the de facto open calendaring file format), although at this stage only when the fields are all in U.S. format. Multiple calendars can be added and shared, allowing various levels of permissions for the users. This enables collaboration and sharing of schedules between groups or families. There are also general calendars available for importing into one's account which contain national holidays of various countries" (wikipedia.org). The site allows me to name my agenda books anything I want to, and I also can use different colors to make certain events stand out if I want to. TechCrunch offered an interesting quote on how this site is so great, "CL2 makes it easy — even effortless — to keep track of all the events in your life and compare them to what your friends and family have going on in theirs. We’ve designed a calendar that works for you — helping you add events from email, friends, and other public calendars — so you don’t have to spend all your time maintaining your schedule" (techcrunch.com)
Google Calendar is so beneficial because it is free, easy to use and understand, and just extremely helpful in keeping people organized! People love to be interactive on the computer and Google Calendar allows them to be their own organizers on the internet. When i read about Google Calendars I instantly went to the website (www.googlecalendars.com) and set up my calendar using my "g mail" account. Not too many people use Google Calendar because they simply don't know about it. Spread the word, it's easy and fun to use!






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