Calendar Update Coming

• 17 November 2007
• David McKelvey

In the conversation I’ve previously noted with Kim Brodkin, we also discussed the Campus Calendar and some of it’s issues. Again from Kim:

The Campus Calendar has been a real problem for this symposium (and others). As others have already noted, the calendar is very difficult to read, even when you know to look for a particular event. The problem I face with postings for the symposia is that these are complicated events that warrant considerably more than a simple line that says “Multicultural Symposium.” Should we list each and every panel, performance, reading, lecture, and workshop separately? There simply isn’t the space for that on the calendar.

Not having been here long, I know only the basics about calendaring at L&C, but have learned enough that it is fraught with challenges (not unlike other colleges, but we can do better). In order to reserve space you fill out one form, to get it on the public calendar another, and there may even be more. (I really don’t know, more than one form is already too many — I stopped there.)

However, while the school registrars are also shifting to a new method of allocating space, event management is also changing software. In a jointly managed project between Michael Ford, Sherron Stonecypher, Matthew West and New Media (Noah, Robb and I), we will be migrating events management to EMS Master Calendar.

We are just in the beginning stages of this migration with most of the work coming during Spring semester, but when complete, there will be a new calendaring system with a single, easy-to-use form for both requesting available space and resources, as well as putting your event on one of the several institutional calendars. And, EMS Master Calendar comes with the latest features including RSS, so we’ll be able to publish many different feeds of events by theme (arts, athleics, symposia, etc.) or other tag/segment.

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