Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 07 May 2008 16:52:00 GMT
Here is another true story about how Famundo has helped a family manage their busy lives.
My family has used a calendar program, cell phones calendars, and paper calendars for years to try to keep up with each other’s activities. Up until we found Famundo, the paper calendar with a different column for each family member worked best for us. The drawback was that when we were away from the house, we were unable to check availability of different family members as the calendar was at home in the kitchen. I have a small family, there are only 3 of us, but we are all always running in different directions since our daughter is now a teenager. Whether it be band, cheerleading, late work schedules, parent conference night, basketball, or girls night out, when something came up when we were away, we were unsure of each other’s availability because we couldn’t check that calendar that was at home in the kitchen.
Famundo allows us to keep all of our calendars in one place – easily accessible from any computer – or even from a cell phone. We can see if there is somewhere we’re supposed to be, check ahead for upcoming events, and add new items to the calendar from afar.
We can also give our password to extended family members so they can see our calendar to know if we’re busy before making any plans that involve us. Everyone knows how busy we are and how little time we spend at home. This is a valuable tool for everyone!
It has definitely made our life easier and we will continue to use it in the future.
Thank you, Famundo!
Kim Davis
Thank YOU Kim!
We are looking for more user stories on how Famundo has helped your family control the chaos. Please send us a note to info@famundo.com
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:47:00 GMT
Many of you have asked what the purpose of the Tag field is. This field is found in various data entry screens in Famundo such as events, lists, files, and photos. In fact, tagging is used in almost every area of Famundo. Think of a Tag as a “keyword” that will allow you to search for things with “like” tags in the future.
Famundo now supports searching of tagged events, so you can quickly view all events that contain a specific tag.
Let’s say, for example, that your child is required to complete a certain number of community service hours for their school. If, when you schedule the community service events, you add a tag “community” in the tag field, it will be very easy to locate all community service events in the future and add up the hours served.
Tags will “auto-complete”, so once you add a new tag it will appear the next time you start typing in the word in the tag field.
Tag searching will locate all events with a specific tag from 3 months in the past to 3 months in the future.
The tags are presented in what is called a “tag cloud,” which can be viewed by clicking on Tags on the top Calendar menu. The tags with the most items are represented with larger text in the beginning of the list and those with fewer items are represented with smaller text at the end of the list.
By the way, your family member’s names are also treated as tags, so if you want to find all events for a member of your family, just click on their name in the tag cloud.
In future releases of Famundo, you will be able to search on all items, events, files, lists, photos and more, with a common tag.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:00 GMT
In addition to the recent Ericsson and Hitched Magazine articles below, we’ve had quite a few other press other mentions recently that I have been remiss on reporting about.
Here is a rundown:
Geek Sugar
... Famundo has received a lot of attention lately for being a great option for families. They call themselves a “family hub” and hope to replace your wall calendar, address book, filing cabinet, fridge magnets and yellow sticky notes. Famundo offers Outlook synchronization, a list maker and even a family library for storing your documents, photos, bookmarks and other personal information
The Online Family
Who it’s for: Busy moms who need their calendar software to serve as a digital daily planner. Famundo includes a list-making feature, address book, family homepage and a “vault,” an encrypted storage space where you can store important documents such as medical records. “Famundo has great customer support and is perfect for families,” says Valentina Sgro, a professional organizer.
Pocket-Lint
It’s fair to say that if you’re office-based, you’re probably fairly intimate with your desktop calendar. How many times have you wished you could get your whole family or circle of friend hooked up to it too? This might be what you’ve been wishing for.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Got kids? Got more activities than you can keep track of? Famundo is a free online calender and planning center that enables every member of your family to post outings, messages, appointments, reminders, lists and more—kind of like Microsoft Outlook, but with easy multiple user functionality (and it syncs with Outlook if you’re already heavily invested there). One really nice feature: When plans change, instead of deleting or editing an appointment on the calendar, just drag it to the new time. There’s also an address book and even space for a family blog and photographs you can invite others to view.
PC World
This one is in Danish, but here is a rough translation:
Do you want to be able to manage your family life? Then look into Famundo. With it’s calendar, to-do lists, address book—Famundo has it all. You and your family can keep track of soccer practice, shopping at K-mart, even your 40th birthday.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:51:00 GMT
We are very pleased that Famundo is featured in the following article, Online Tools to Keep You Organized on Hitched, a site dedicated to entertaining, educating & inspiring marriages.
The Total Family Dashboard –
Famundo (www.famundo.com) puts a host of scheduling and organization tools right at your fingertips on your family homepage. With calendars for each family member, import options that’ll seamlessly bring in school and community organizations’ calendars, and Outlook and iCal synchronization, you’ll never miss a pickup again. It also gives you a central place to keep an address book, scanned documents, photos, reminders, messages and lists.
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