CalendarReview

You probably noticed by that 9 turning into a 10 on your calendar that we entered a new year. We wish you all the best and happiness in 2010.

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VueSoft has announced the release of VueMinder Calendar Pro 6.0.0, expanding its already impressive list of features by adding full 2-way Google Calendar sync. Google Calendars can be easily added with just a few clicks, and any changes made while offline will automatically sync.

When combined with VueMinder Calendar’s other features, this allows a user to perform many tasks that, until now, were difficult to perform or required several programs. For example, an Excel spreadsheet of event information can be quickly imported into VueMinder Calendar and automatically synced with Google Calendar. The reverse can also be done, taking your Google Calendar events and exporting them to Excel through VueMinder Calendar’s easy-to-use interface.

For those people wanting to keep Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar in sync, but require automatic and instantaneous syncing, instead of the minimum 10 minute interval of the Google Calendar Sync tool, VueMinder Calendar Pro is the answer. It allows the same calendar to be synced simultaneously with both Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, whenever a change is detected. It all happens quickly and quietly in the background.

And, for people frustrated with the limited number of options available when printing from Google Calendar, VueMinder Calendar Pro adds a huge variety of print layouts and settings, as well as a print preview window that dynamically updates as the various print layout settings are adjusted.

The latest release of VueMinder Calendar Pro also provides a number of other innovative improvements, such as “desktop alert” reminders color-coded to match the associated event. These can now be pinned to any location on the screen. It’s sort of a mash up of sticky notes and reminders, and is seriously cool.

VueMinder Calendar Pro is offered as a free 30-day trial and can be downloaded or purchased online at http://www.vueminder.com. A scaled down version, VueMinder Calendar Lite, is completely free for both personal and business use.

KeepandShare’s unique online web calendar keeps getting better.  A major recent upgrade added  rich text editing, making their ‘free text’ calendar boxes even more powerful.   Users can now format and style all the text in their calendar with fonts, bold face etc.     Google continues to place the KeepandShare calendar on page 1 for free 2010 calendar.    The rich text editing combines with KeepandShare’s slick & well formatted PDF printing to provide a calendar unique in its focus on giving users complete control over what appears in each day box and how it’s formatted.    Mind you, this calendar isn’t for everyone – it doesn’t have ‘time slots’ or synch with other calendars – instead, it’s focused on free text entry, making it very easy to use and flexible.

ServiceU Corporation (http://www.ServiceU.com) has added social networking features to its popular web-based software tools, EventU and TransactU, that allow users to share activities and involvements across social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others.

“We have the privilege of serving many highly innovative organizations. This is just another example of the way we partner with our clients to make them as successful as possible,” said Tim Whitehorn, president and CEO of ServiceU Corporation. “Given the exponential growth of social networking, we wanted to give our clients the ability to quickly and easily share the events and causes that they care about with their social networking friends and followers.”

ServiceU has added social networking buttons to the EventU event listings and the TransactU donation and event registration pages. Organizations can choose from more than 100 social networking site icons and display as many as they want on their pages.

As website patrons view an event listing or donation page on an organization’s website, they can simply click the social networking icons to share the link to their favorite social networking site or service. This eliminates the need to cut and paste links into Facebook or other sites. With one click, users can share links simply with very little effort.

“We feel that this is going to be a tremendous opportunity for outreach,” says Whitehorn. “People naturally want to share causes and events they care about with people in their lives—both in person and online. With more people communicating through online networks, these tools will make for easier sharing and help churches and nonprofits reach a wider audience.”

For more information on ServiceU, organizations can call (866) 709-7421 or go www.ServiceU.com or email sales@serviceu.com to find out more on how ServiceU can help make serving other simplified. To follow ServiceU on Twitter, visit: http://twitter.com/serviceucorp.

About ServiceU Corporation
Since 1999, ServiceU Corporation has been the trusted solution for providing software that helps churches, schools and nonprofits simplify and automate administrative processes by moving them online. ServiceU’s core product line includes: EventU™ for event, resource, and facility management through web-based calendar scheduling software; EventU Green™ is an add-on to EventU that automates facility heating and cooling (HVAC) online based on a facility’s events schedule; TransactU™ provides secure online donation, payment, and event registration tools; TicketU™ provides online ticket sales, box office management, and theater software.

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Exchange groupcalendar is a plugin for exchange server. It provides central scheduling and overview of groups of users from public calendar folders. Additional client side tools available like the above gridview. It works with entourage too. More info on http://www.exchangegroupcalendar.com

Active Data Calendar also launches ability to update personal calendars automatically.

(Bethlehem, PA – Oct. 14, 2009) – Tapping into the ability to perform event marketing across social networks, Active Data Calendar has added the capability to publish and share events across social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and others through the AddThis® interface. Event marketers can take advantage of organic social media penetration without the overhead of redundant keystrokes and paid advertising.

Calendar visitors can easily share events with all of their friends and followers across multiple networks, who can then share it with their own Web 2.0 networks. Another new feature allows for visitors to subscribe for automatic updates of events by category to their personal calendar, such as Outlook, Google, Notes, GroupWise, and others. “Everything revolves around dates and times. The expansion of our Active Data Calendar product suite into a publish once, everywhere you want model addresses the need for proactive information retrieval for content that everyone takes for granted – date related info,” said Susan Yee, CEO of Active Data Exchange.

New features in the Active Data Calendar 3.9 suite of products include:

• Social media integration using AddThis®, which allows site visitors to add event data to 150+ social media sites
  • Choose which social media sites visitors can use to share events with the AddThis® interface
  • Customize the look of the AddThis® interface including colors, buttons, menus, etc.
• Support for dynamic iCal subscription feeds of event data
  • Automatically add event data from any calendar view to iCal compatible personal calendar software (MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Lotus Notes, etc.)
  • Changes made in Active Data Calendar will automatically be reflected on all personal calendars that are subscribed to that iCal feed (http://webcal)
• Available integration with the payment gateway TouchNet
• Payment tracking and associated workflow for payments by cash and check
• Facility keyword searching and improvements to automated workflow e-mails in the Open Entry Module

Active Data Calendar 3.9 is compatible with the latest Microsoft® technologies including Windows 7® and Microsoft Server 2008 R2® and has been given the “Front Runner” status by Microsoft® to signify early adoption of the latest Microsoft® technologies.

Active Data Calendar is a web-based calendar program that allows for events to be published, managed, and promoted on the Calendar itself, other web sites, social media outlets, portals, intranets, SharePoint sites, Student Information Systems (SIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and other web-enabled enterprise technologies. Available extended capabilities include creating custom event registration forms and accepting registration fees online, booking facilities with specific features and resources for your event, and internal-only calendars to communicate and align key internal dates, deadlines, milestones, and events.

About Active Data Exchange
Active Data Exchange has been providing enterprise web-based event marketing and facilities scheduling software, email and text message broadcasting solutions and information broadcasting solutions for education, healthcare, government and corporate organizations since 1999. Products and services include Active Data Calendar, Active Data Communicator, and Active Data Syndicator. Clients include New York City Department of Education, Drexel University,  Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Minnesota Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, National Government Services, North Carolina State University, Temple University and others. Active Data Exchange is a PA certified Minority and Woman Owned Business and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. For more information, please visit www.activedatax.com.

CONTACT: SUSAN YEE
Phone:  (610)997-8100
Email:  syee@activedatax.com

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VueSoft has recently announced a competitive discount of 35% for users of other commercial calendar products when switching to VueMinder Calendar Pro. For those who qualify, the discounted price will be $25.95 (US) instead of the regular $39.95. Click here for more information and to see if you qualify!

Also, VueMinder Calendar Pro is now FREE to churches and other non-profit charitable organizations having a U.S. Department of Treasury 501(c)(3) public charity status. These organizations can receive an unlimited number of licenses. You can click here to learn more or to submit a license request for your charitable organization.

For those that don’t qualify for a competitive discount or represent a domestic U.S. charity, VueSoft continues to offer VueMinder Calendar Lite for free. Enjoy!

The KeepandShare calendar just reached 750,000 registered users.   The volume of users looking for 2010 is building quickly, and our 2010 calendar  features continue to be the unique ability to embed it in a blog or webpage, free-format text editing, beautiful PDF calendar printing, and secure, private online sharing. 

Of these features, the free-format text editing is the most unique.  It makes the calendar especially good for detailed note take applications, and for very easy-to-use shared group schedules.   Calendar users for calendar 2009-2010 years let each member post their own schedule notes into the shared calendar.  Users are also attracted by ease of use and the powerful private sharing of calendars, files and photos that KeepandShare provides.

VueSoft has recently released a freeware calendar and reminder program for Windows, titled VueMinder Calendar Lite. You can learn more about it or download it from http://www.vueminder.com

VueMinder Calendar Lite is a FREE calendar and reminder program for Windows. It supports multiple calendars displayed simultaneously in layers. These can be viewed and printed by day, week, or month. They can also be visually distinguished using unlimited combinations of fonts, background colors, and gradient styles. It also integrates a semitransparent calendar into your Windows desktop, so you’ll always be able to see your upcoming events.

VueMinder Calendar Lite provides a number of reminder options including pop-up reminders and desktop alerts. Desktop alerts fade into view unobtrusively in the lower-right corner of the screen. Recently viewed or dismissed reminders are easily accessible and can be redisplayed with a single click.

VueMinder Calendar Lite supports the iCalendar standard, allowing subscriptions to calendars located on both your local network or over the web. You can also export to iCalendar files, and use those in other calendar programs. A wide variety of print layouts and styles are also provided, along with a dynamically updating print preview window that allows you to instantly see what will be printed as the various printing options are modified.

For an even more full-featured calendar program, consider trying VueMinder Calendar Pro, which allows you to publish calendars over the web or to your local network, import and export to Excel, sync with Outlook, send SMS and email reminders, customize the interface with themes and user-defined layouts, and much more.