calendar+ideas

= Offsite service= [|Beach calendar] "Say you have a headquarters (HQ) main office and 10 branch offices. Each branch office can have its own calendar and enter its own events. The main office can display and print any combination of those 10 sets of events on one calendar, with each of the 10 sets color coded as to source. Or all the branch office calendars can automatically show their own events and events entered by the HQ to show on all calendars. In fact, on a multiple merging server, any calendar can "include" all or some events from any or all of the other calendars on the server. With a multiple merging server, you get (in essence) 20 different event databases that you can display in just about any possible combination." Cost $170 first year, $90 after that
 * Beach uses calendars.net. The service costs around $30/yr
 * The company also offers a "merging calendar server"

=ical subscribed calendars= Here’s a district that uses ical and Sunbird (a calendar manager for PCs) to manage their calendars. The cool thing about this system is that staff and parents can subscribe to any calendar they want, and the calendars are searchable. You can have your 3rd graders classroom calendar and your middle schoolers calendar appear with the districts holidays schedule- all in one place and color coded.

Each group (ESL, tech prof development, classes, band etc) have their own schedules that they maintain, easily using ical and shared (via .mac? Or an ical server?)

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=Google Apps= looks interesting! They can manage the email, calendars etc. ands its free! Can anyone whose used these services tell us more? embed google calendar in Wordpres discussion and solution at bottom [|wordpress/google cal]