I love Google

As promised, we now have an interactive calendar for the group.
It’s available to us through Google.
All this time, I really never thought of Google as anything other than a search engine.
But Au’ Contraire… it is so much more!

Before I get into the "hows" of the interactive calendar, let me point out that I did add a link to the right sidebar called "STF Calendar". You can view the calendar at this site, but you cannot interact with it. Click on the event itself for the details. To interact with the calendar, follow the instructions below.

If you are a member of this blog, you should have received an invitation to register for a Google Calendar if you do not already have one. This entails nothing more than a few quick steps; you will need your Google user I.D. and password to register. If I missed you somehow, shoot me a quick email and I’ll add you to the list.

Once you have completed that initial step, you will have access to your own Google Calendar which I believe will be named whatever your email account address is you used when you first registered.

You will also have access to our group calendar named “Sisterhood of the Travelling Fatties”. It is highlighted in pink and you can highlight your own calendar simply by clicking on the down arrow to the left of your calendar’s name. (Choose any color than pink!)

Tip: At the top of the calendar on the right side are viewing options; Day, Week, Month, 4 Day & Agenda. Choose “Month” for the best overall snapshot of what’s coming up soon. Choose "Agenda" and it will list everything we have scheduled on the calendar to date.

The two calendars will look to be combined as one, but only you will see your own personal data which also shows up on the STF calendar, not anyone else. For instance, my personal calendar is highlighted in purple. Anything I put on it will show in purple font. When I click on the STF calendar, I will see “STF Meeting on 2/12” in pink font. But if I added a Doctor’s Appt. on my calendar it would appear for me in purple font on the STF calendar as well, but none of you will see. It sounds a bit confusing I know, but it’s actually pretty groovy. (It would help tremendously if I was a better “technical writer”… but I ain’t!) Bottom line, only data in “pink” is what everyone is seeing. So choose any other color for your personal calendar please.

Once you’ve got all that figured out, let’s go one step further.
On the same page as your Google calendar, over on the left sidebar it says “My Calendars”. Be sure you are on the STF calendar, and then click on “Settings” which is right below it. Again on this page, choose the STF calendar and click on “Notifications”. This is where you can personalize your notification settings. It’s pretty self-explanatory; I clicked all 5 choices to have emailed to me. If it gets to be obnoxious I can always go back and change it.

So that’s our “Calendar Tutorial”… again I apologize for not being more literate in this area… but as Popeye says, “I am what I am!”