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171  - SHARE CALENDARS

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The Remember the Milk widget in

action on your Google Calendar

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Calendars can be shared with collaborators—or the whole world.

Do you want to create a community-maintained public calendar? With Google Calendar, you

can; after all, more minds can tackle a task faster and better. And even if you’re the only person

maintaining the dates and descriptions, it’s often useful to share specic events with a group of

friends or colleagues.

To implement a publicly viewable and group-maintained calendar, sign in to Google Calendar, click

the Add button to the left, and select “Create a new calendar” from the menu. For this sample, I will

create a calendar for a local book reading group, naming it “Book Readers’ Club Events,” as shown

in Figure 7-12. If you like, check the “Share all information on this calendar with everyone” option—

everyone will now be able to search for your calendar, too, so choose this only for truly public

events—and click the “Create calendar” button.

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Creating a new public calendar

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Now when you add a new event in your Google calendar, you can toggle the calendar selection

box to “Book Reader’s Club Events,” as shown in Figure 7-13. You can invite specic guests or add ...