Calendar Swamp

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

Friday, August 13, 2021

Memo to self: People expect default meeting details are in the siloed calendar

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A shift happened during the pandemic, and I'm just now realizing it. Before, if I put my phone number in a Google Calendar invitation, p...
Friday, July 09, 2021

A funny meme that isn't so funny considering the sorry state of calendar and schedule interop

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I haven't posted here in quite some time, mostly because the sort of calendaring and scheduling interoperability I advocated for in deca...
Friday, October 23, 2020

A Windows 10 calendar interop mystery

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 I've been gradually getting up to speed with Mozilla Thunderbird running on Windows 10, and I've encountered a mystery. I received ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Microsoft clobbers its own internal calendar interoperability

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After a couple of decades, I really can't be surprised by any inaction Microsoft takes on the industry-standard calendar-sharing front, ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Google Duplex: A swamp-draining opportunity, lost

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Still waiting for some really good swamp-draining news, but this ain't it. I would not appreciate getting one of these calls if I ran a ...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Q&A: Ronald Tse, founder of Ribose, co-host of CalConnect's Hong Kong event, April 18-22

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CalConnect XXXVI is just 12 days away. It's a special event -- the first CalConnect event in Asia. Previous events took place in North A...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

CalConnect Web site relaunched

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Very pleased to announce the relaunch of CalConnect.org , now based upon the modern Drupal content management system. I acted as CalConnect ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Some good news from CalConnect XXXV

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Nearly seven months after my last post here, I have a couple of pieces of good news on the calendar sharing front, and they both concide wit...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

10 years of Calendar Swamp

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10 years later, it still feels like January in the road to interoperable calendars and schedules. There has been some progress, but st...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Next Wednesday: Panel on the future of calendaring and scheduling in San Jose

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I have eagerly accepted an invitation to participate in a panel on the future of calendaring and scheduling next Wednesday, January 28, 2015...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Conference room hoarding

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Just because we might be able to share our schedules -- and those of shared resources such as conference rooms -- doesn't mean that our ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

I am now chairman of the board of directors of CalConnect

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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

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

CalConnect XXX Workshop Preview

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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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.
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