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Announcements are on the home page. The Regional Calendar combines Google Calendars maintained by each of the participating societies into a single point of reference.

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Google Calendar instructions

Each institute manages its own Google Calender. These are combined to create the “regional event calendar” on this website.

Creating your Google Calendar

Beginning: go to http://www.google.com/calendar and either click on the “take the tour” button OR the button to create your calendar. You may get a lot further than you think. You can’t possibly ruin anything… if you are gifted enough to really screw anything up you can always just abandon the whole thing and start over.

If you already have a Google account you use for your own business, it might be wise to create another account just for this — that way you can pass it along to a colleague more easily. I have something called “NYFS.DC.Announcements@gmail.com” for my institute.

  1. Go to www.google.com/calendar Click “create an account” If you already have an account, click the “sign in here”.
  2. Create calendar — fill out the form w/ name, description etc. Check the box “make this calendar public”
  3. Write down the web address for your calendar. Bookmark it so you can return and add information.
  4. Create calendar. Now you are ready to add some events.
  5. click on the date.
  6. click “add event”. Click “edit event” to get more specific.

Remember — the regional calendar is linked to yours, so whenever you add or edit information it shows up for everyone to see.

Linking Your Calendar to the Regional Calendar

Now, to link your calendar to the regional, shared calender:

  1. click on “settings” (upper right hand corner)
  2. then click “calendars”
  3. Then click on the calendar name (you probably only have one)
  4. the click “share this calendar”
  5. enter this email address in the box:     psychoanalytic.events.dc.balt@gmail.com
  6. use the pulldown thing to say “make changes AND manage sharing”
  7. Click “save settings” or whatever.

Let the website administrator know when you’ve done this.

Editing Events

Use the “Google Calender” links on the right-hand margin of this website for convenience to find your way back to your calendar to update events.

To avoid information bottlenecks, we recommend you empower several people at your institute to add information. At minimum, we recommend that each committee that plans events has a member with this ability so a “save the date” can go up as soon as events are sketched out. Use the “Invite” feature on your calendar to give people the power to do this. Find it under Settings –> Calendars –> click your calendar’s name –> Share this calender.

If you are a little ambitious, you can control your Google Calendar from your desktop calendar application — iCal on the Mac or Outlook on Windows, possibly others. Look around in the help files fore instructions on how to do this. (Hint: Settings –> Calendars –> click your calendar’s name –> Calendar details… scroll down to the brightly colored buttons that say “XML” and “iCal”)

mj 3/31/09