Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:38:00 GMT
Month 3 has been bliss! I have now imported the names and addresses of my family, friends and other contacts into the address book. Then I tagged them.
What does this mean to me? It means I can tag someone as being in my daughter’s 6th grade class, on her softball team, in her Girl Scout troop, or all or the above. Now if I need to get an e-mail out to everyone in her 6th grade class, I can do it directly from Famundo.
The family vault is very cool also. Since it is encrypted, I feel that I can safely store sensitive information there, like bank account information and health insurance information, prescription numbers. I can’t tell you how many times I am asked for my son’s social security number and, since I haven’t committed it to memory yet; I have to dig through stacks of paper to find it. Now I can easily look it up in the family vault.
I hope to be able to scan other information like our passports and birth certificates into the vault very soon.
The calendar import is very nice also, although we still don’t sync with Outlook (this is a hint to our dev team) I am able to import my Outlook calendar into Famundo, which is a big relief.
Stay tuned, Famundo has much more to come.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:24:00 GMT
We are very pleased to announce a new build of Famundo with many new features and improvements. Here is an overview:
New – Family Vault (Famundo for Families) – a new secure, encrypted area in the Family Library for storing important documents and information.
New – Faster Load Time – some testers have reported improvements as much as 10x faster
New – Personalize Public Home Page (Famundo for Families) – families can add greeting text and image to public home page.
New – Calendar Import – calendar data can be imported into Calendar in CSV or ICS format.
New – Agenda View – new display option added to calendar.
New – Contact Import (Famundo for Families) – contact data can be imported into Address Book in CSV format.
New – Select multiple Contacts in Address Book (Famundo for Families) – one or more contacts in address book can be selected to perform operation like delete, tag or e-mail.
New – Send e-mail to one or multiple contacts from Address Book (Famundo for Families) – e-mail can be sent to one or more select contacts.
Improved – Select Calendar Category Ownership—ability to select assigned owner of calendar categories for edit/view access.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:00:00 GMT
Well its been two months now since my family has started using Famundo and I have to admit that I’m in scheduling heaven. My daughter’s girl scout troop, softball team and my son’s theater group, boy scout troop and lacrosse team are all using Famundo. All I had to do was to go to each Famundo site, subscribe to the calendars I wanted, assign it to one of my kids, and BINGO!, their schedules are now in my Famundo calendar. I didn’t have to do any of the work, it’s being done for me.
Yeah, we still aren’t synching with Outlook or Palm, and I hear about it daily from my wife, but, and this is a big …. Outlook/Palm sync is finished and we just need to write the install.
We also have a new release due and day now with lots of very cool new things. I’ll let you know more as soon as I know more.
In the meantime, sign up if you haven’t done so yet. Click here to sign up for a free trial
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:41:00 GMT
One of our users is on a fundraising committee for her school and wants to use Famundo to schedule all the meetings, deadlines, etc., in order to insure a successful event. She mentioned that she didn’t feel it would be appropriate to add the calendar to her school’s Famundo site. She said she would create a new calendar for the fundraiser on her personal Famundo site, but she didn’t want the other committee members looking at her personal Famundo items and wouldn’t want the calendar made public either.
Famundo has a solution for this situation with its flexible permission options.
The first thing you need to do do is create a new calendar for the fundraiser and set the view access “Family and Friends Only.” Each event that is added to this calendar should also have view access set to “Family and Friends Only.”
Now you can add the other committee members to your Address Book and click on “Invite” on the Contact Detail menu. This will allow you to send them an e-mail inviting them to become a member of your Famundo site. They can select their own login name and password.
Once they have accepted the invitation, they will be able to view your newly created fundraising calendar but will not have access to your personal Famundo items. The same with any documents you set with “Family and Friends Only.” access.
The public will not be able to view any of these items.
Note: At this time, contacts have to be added to your Famundo Address Book manually. We will be releasing a new build within the next two weeks that will allow you to import your contacts in a csv format.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:57:00 GMT
We’ve had some frequently asked questions from users of our Famundo for Organizations version, so I thought I would take this opportunity to answer them until we get our FAQ updated.
How can I make sure that the events on my calendar are only visible to our members and not the general public?
There are a number of situations where you may not want any of your calendar items public, but prefer them to be viewable by members only.
Famundo for Organizations does have the ability to add Members and assign viewing rights to members, but not the public. By using our Members feature, each member would be able to create their own login name and password. Here is further information on creating members.
There is a simpler way to do this if you don’t feel there is a need for individual logins and passwords, but rather can get by with just one login and password for all your members.
Create a new member and e-mail the inviation to yourself. When you receive the e-mail invitation, click on the link and create a new login and password.
Once you have created these, you can let all of your members know the new member login and password.
Be sure to set your default view access from “Public (Everyone)” to “All Staff and Members Only.” Here is more information on setting default view access.
Another question we are frequently asked is:
Can I use Famundo to manage my resources, like classrooms, meeting rooms, even projectors?
This can be accomplished by creating a new Calendar Category called Resources and individual calendars for each resource you need to manage. If some needs a resource at a particular time, they can check its availability and if it is available, schedule in the time they need to use it. When someone else needs that same resource, the can look at the calendar and see when it is or is not available. Here is some information on creating new Calendars and Calendar Categories.
If you have any questions about Famundo for Organizations or Famundo for Families, please send an e-mail to info [at] famundo.com.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:08:00 GMT
I had a very nice interview with Paul Nyhan of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer a few weeks ago about Famundo. He was doing a round up of different solutions for organizing your family. Unfortunately, probably due to some copy editor’s scissors, the key differentiator between Famundo and the other solutions was cut out of the published article.
Our slogan is “It’s your Family, It’s your World, Bring it all together.” When we say your “World” we believe it consists of your family, your friends and the community you belong to.
I don’t know about you but one of the major causes of stress that I have is managing my family’s schedule. The kid’s go to two different schools, they have outside sports, scouts and other activities. My wife and I have both our work and home schedules to balance. Trying to keep this all organized is a major undertaking.
Famundo can eliminates a lot this tedium by connecting your schedules with the other schedules that are important to you, your school, church, sports and other events can be automatically added to your family’s schedules, with no effort on our part.
We do this by making a special version of Famundo for community organizations like schools, churches and sports teams. They can use our program for free and there is nothing for them to install — it’s all hosted on our secure servers. Once they have their schedules in Famundo, you can subscribe to the events that are important to you and have them automatically appear on your Famundo family calendar.
If we can do this one single thing to make your life easier, we’ve accomplished our goal.
Here is a Screencast of Famudo in action!
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