Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:00:00 GMT
I have to admit, it even took some time for me to get my family hooked on Famundo. But now they’re hooked. In fact, we’ve even turned Famundo into a verb, “Why don’t you Famundo that” or “Would you Famundo this for me?”.
Here is how I got them hooked. We have a main computer in the family room which is always on. Everyone in the family uses it for various activities.
I made my Famundo calendar page the homepage for my browser, FireFox, and I leave the browser open all the time.
Now, everyone can easily glance at the calendar if they need and since Famundo is already open, it’s a snap to add something to the grocery list or look up someone’s phone number.
To make your Famundo calendar your browser’s homepage, you can follow the instructions below.
1. Log into Famundo. (I logged in as myself, since I don’t have anything private and this gives full access to everyone)
2. Do the following, depending on what browser you are using:
FireFox
- Click on Tools > Options on the main menu.
- Click on the Main icon
- Click on Use Current Pages button
- Click on the OK button.
Internet Exlporer
- Click on Tools > Internet Options on the main menu.
- Click on the General tab
- Click on Use Current button
- Click on the OK button.
Safari
- Click on Edit > Preferences on the main menu.
- Click on the General icon
- Click on Set to Current Page button
- Close the Preferences window. .
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:44:00 GMT
The internet is a powerful and cost-effective way to distribute information to a large group of people. This is especially true for schools. A school can post their schedule online where students and parents can get up-to-date information quickly and easily. It is hard to imagine any school not having their own website today with some sort of schedule information on it.
But there have concerns raised recently about who has access to this information. Just as this information is available for viewing by the student body, it is also viewable by those who don’t have the best of intentions. Predators can have easy access to information such as what time school gets out or where a field trip might take place.
Famundo solves this problem by providing multiple layers of permissions (5 layers to be exact) to their online calendar solution, so only those given permission have viewing access.
How does this work? A school creates a Members Group that has a single sign in and password.
This information is distributed to the student body, which can then log in to see their schedules. No one without the sign in and password would be able to view it. A new Members Group can be created every year or as often as necessary.
The default view access for events should be set for All Staff and Members Only, so that going forward, any events will only be viewable by someone who has the correct sign in and password.
For those events that you want viewable by the public, such as a concert or sporting event, can be set on the fly when creating the event.
We would love to hear from you about any ideas or suggestions on ways you have used Famundo to solve problems within your family or organization. Thank you.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:49:00 GMT
We are changing things around here at Famundo, at least in terms of our blogs. In the past this blog has included a smattering of parenting news, technology news, and other miscellaneous odds and ends along with the Famundo product news.
This blog is now being repurposed to be the Famundo product blog exclusively (well as exclusively as we ever get here ;-). We have so many new users and so much going on with the product itself, that we need this venue to get information out to you as soon as possible. I’ll be joined by my other colleagues at Famundo to post more frequent news, tips, tricks and other ideas about Famundo.
We will still be maintaining our Dev Blog, for those of you who are really interested in what is the behind Famundo and we will soon be launching a new family oriented blog that will be available to all of our family users to post ideas, stories, news etc. relating to their family lives.
Thank you again for your interest in Famundo. Stay tuned for more news!
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:21:00 GMT
We are very pleased to announce a new build of Famundo with many new features and fixes.
Among the new features and improvements:
New – Blogs (Famundo for Families) – Famundo for Families now includes a full featured blog engine that allows all members to create their own blogs.
New – Calendar Export – calendar data can be exported and for use in other applications and backup purposes.
New – Contact Export (Famundo for Families) – contact data can be exported for use in other applications and backup purposes.
New – Public View Settings – users can not specify public view settings.
New – Friends Groups (Famundo for Families) – ability to create a single log in for friend site access.
New – Member Groups (Famundo for Organizations) – ability to create a single log in for member site access.
New – Quick Family Setup (Famundo for Families) – all members of a family can be added on one single setup page.
New – Security icons – new icons allow users to quickly and easily identify view permission settings.
Improved – Calendar menu – less frequently used menu items are consolidated under More … menu option.
Improved – Contact menu (Famundo for Families – less frequently used menu items are consolidated under More … menu option.
Improved – Family View (Famundo for Families)– Family View is now the default view after a member logs in. Previously, the logged in user would be the default view.
Changed – Default Edit Access (Famundo for Organizations) – default edit access has been changed to Staff.
Changed – Library Master Folder – name of mas.ter file folder is name of Family/Organization.
Fixed – Calendar Imports- various fixes for CSV and ICS calendar imports.
Fixed – Multi-day timed events – multi-day, timed events are now rendered properly.
Fixed – IE7 Display- various display issues in IE7 have been fixed.
Fixed – Quick List – list will now ignore blank items.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 09 May 2007 04:41:00 GMT
We’d like to give a very hearty welcome to Rod Turner as the newest member of the Famundo team.
I am very pleased to be working with the Famundo team,” said Turner. “I have been watching them for a while, and I have observed that they are absolutely dedicated to making a big difference in the family and group scheduling market, in part by listening closely to what the customer wants, and then satisfying the customers by providing it through Famundo’s innovative products and services. I expect great success for Famundo.
Rod comes to us with an impressive pedigree. Rod was formerly CEO of Knowledge Adventure, which you may know was a pioneer in the development of multimedia educational software, and played a key role in building two software industry giants, Symantec Corporation (SYMC) and Ashton-Tate.
During his more than eight years as Symantec’s executive vice president and as the general manager of its Peter Norton Utilities Group, Rod was pivotal in growing revenues from zero to $250 million per year and in the company’s 1989 initial public offering (IPO). He launched the Norton AntiVirus in 1992.
As the first vice president at Ashton-Tate, Rod was instrumental in establishing dBASE as the PC industry’s standard for database management, and in the company’s IPO in 1983.
Rod was also a seed investor in AskJeeves.com, which had a successful 1999 IPO.
We are delighted to have Rod on the team.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:48:00 GMT
eSchoolNews Online has selected Famundo as their site of the week.
(Famundo) is an event calendar planning system designed to help school leaders spend less time on administration and more time focusing on education. Famundo provides a central calendar hub with an easy-to-read, complete view of everything going on in a school or a specific classroom. Features include a tool for managing the planning, scheduling, and coordination of events; a message board containing notes and reminders; and a centralized library for handling documents, photos, and other information.
eSchoolNews is the world’s most visited ed-tech publication website, according to Amazon.com’s web-ranking service Alexa research, with nearly 350,000 monthly unique visitors who specifically seek ed-tech product information.
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