Calendar Swamp

If we're ever going to share calendars, we have to insist on interoperability between them all.
Let's drain the swamp!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

I am now chairman of the board of directors of CalConnect

›
As of this month, I've been elected chairman of the board of directors of CalConnect . My additional duties consist primarily of running...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Year 10 of the Calendar Swamp

›
As this Calendar Swamp blog enters its tenth year, I continue to see Web sites and apps strive to reinvent calendaring, scheduling and meeti...
1 comment:
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

CalConnect XXX Workshop Preview

›
William Smith, CEO of MedRed , and I discuss the upcoming May 21 workshop at AOL in Reston, Virginia organized by CalConnect , the Calendar...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Workshop on VA Scheduling System contest, May 21, 2014 in Reston, Virginia

›
As a follow-on to the column I wrote last year about the Department of Veterans Affairs and its recent contest to improve scheduling in its...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

My first column about calendaring and scheduling in healthcare

›
My day job at HealthLeaders Media keeps me very busy, as does serving on the board of directors of CalConnect, the Calendaring and Schedulin...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

What is consensus scheduling? Workshop tomorrow!

›
What is consensus scheduling? Something very useful  in widespread use around the Web today, but that needs to be baked into every digital c...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Google sinks Calendar Sync

›
A small cottage industry grew up around Google Calendar Sync, but that's all history, now that Google has announced it is discontinuing ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Feudal calendar sharing

›
Substitute "calendar and schedule sharing" for "security" in this Bruce Schneier opinion piece and you'd have a fin...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Bye-bye, Tungle

›
From TechCrunch in September: RIM To Shut Down Tungle.Me, Team Will Focus On BlackBerry 10 Calendar App.  Read the comments to get a glimpse...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Mobile phone "fixes" frustrate consumers

›
This story from June shouldn't surprise anyone:  People Frustrated With Online Smartphone 'Fixes' . As mobile carrier growth s...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

TonidoPlug: Platform for a low-cost calendar server?

›
I'm still looking for a low-cost, low-power, quiet calendar server, and may have found a candidate: the Tonido Plug . Click around until...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

State of the Calendar Swamp 2012: I join the CalConnect board

›
The purpose of this blog (now more than seven years old) has been to promote awareness of the state of calendar interoperability. It is my p...
2 comments:
Friday, August 03, 2012

No searching at iCloud.com!

›
Amazing but true: You can't search for anything within your iCloud calendar. Instead, go to your settings for Calendar on your iPad or ...
4 comments:
Thursday, August 02, 2012

Is the Open Data Protocol cause for celebration?

›
Did any calendar interop geeks out there notice the May announcement of the Open Data Protocol ? More importantly, does it matter to us cale...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

A leading calendar swamps itself

›
Google manages to swamp its own calendar . Fail!
Friday, April 13, 2012

Publishing free/busy info in Outlook 2007 (or iCloud for that matter)

›
As I ramp up my Outlook 2007 mad skillz (hah), I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong when trying to publish my free/busy inf...
Friday, March 23, 2012

How do I get Outlook to subscribe to an iCloud calendar?

›
I've turned the paradigm on its head. Usually people want iCloud to subscribe to (or more usually, sync with) their Outlook calendar. I,...
8 comments:
Friday, February 24, 2012

iCloud embraced. But it's still a silo

›
A commenter to Calendar Swamp notes great success with iCloud, and so, after a rough start , do I. First, the comment on my earlier post, fr...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

EFF adds muscle to fight against time zone database lawsuit

›
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)  adds its voice -- and legal resources -- to those opposing a copyright infringement lawsuit again...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

Google Calendar's Mac sync woes

›
Via the Spanning Sync blog , I learned that deleting an event on the Mac OS X calendar no longer can automatically delete a synced event on ...
2 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Scott Mace
Scott Mace writes about health, healthcare technology, other technology, and urban issues. He graduated from San Jose State University and was a senior editor at IDG publication InfoWorld for 16 years, covering topics such as database management and government oversight of technology. Since 2004, he has specialized in the field of healthcare IT journalism. Following completion of a certificate in Clinical Trial Design and Management at UC's San Diego Extension, he was senior technology editor at HealthLeaders Media. In 2015, he received the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Technical Content for a Publication with Brand Revenue of $3M to $7M. In 2016 he was awarded the National Silver Award, Regional Gold Aware of Excellence, Feature Article, General Interest, More than $3M Revenue, Southeast Category, from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Mace is currently a freelance journalist based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.