Fritz and Sauce

One of the tools we use at work, and which I showed off briefly at the Connecting Up 08 conference is the Google Calendar. I use it to plan/keep track of what I’m up to, as do some of the other staff at MOSHCC. We share those calendars to keep track of where we all are, and so our reception desk also knows where we all are!

We also have some calendars that we all contribute to, such as room bookings, transport bookings, and one main “MOSHCC Programs” calendar which is publicly viewable. We then embed this public calendar on moshcc.com.au and byte-on.org.au

The great thing about the Google Calendar is that is can sync to Outlook, or to iCal on the Mac. For iCal I do this with a third party program called Spanning Sync, it then ends up on my iPod which makes for great portability. For Outlook; Google has their own tool which provides the same two-way syncing.

You can also access the mobile version of your calendars either by mobile phone/PDA/iPod etc when connected out and about.