The Famundo Blog

New fund raising opportunity!

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:45:00 GMT

Famundo has launched an exciting and easy new fundraising opportunity for schools, churches or any other groups that are using Famundo for Organizations.

Refer your members to use Famundo for Families!

The standard version of Famundo for Families is free and has the amazing advantage of allowing your members to automatically update their personal calendar with events from yours.

However, your members upgrade to Famundo for Families Plus, we will donate 10% of their subscription fees back to your organization! That’s all! No bake sales or magazine drives.

If 100 of your members become annual subscribers, we will donate $1,000 back to your group.

We have added an Invite link on your Famundo banner that makes it easy to e-mail an announcement to your members. It includes your referral code so your organization received credit.

To learn more about this program, please visit our Referrals page.

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Upgrade to Famundo for Families Plus!

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:25:00 GMT

Users of our free standard version of Famundo for Families can now upgrade to Famundo for Families Plus and enjoy no ads, more file and photo storage and much more. For a complete list of features, please visit our features page.

To upgrade, click on the Upgrade link on the Famundo banner. You have the option of paying a monthly fee of $9.95 or an annual subscription of $99. And, for a limited time, annual subscribers receive 14 months for the cost of 12!

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Importing Entourage calendar data into Famundo

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:43:00 GMT

I really have to thank one of our new users for this invaluable tip. She is a Mac user and wanted to know how to get her Entourage data into Famundo.

I have to admit I don’t use the Mac very often, so after looking over Entourage, it appeared to me that Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to get your data out of Entourage. You can export your contacts in tab delimited format, but as far as calendar data, you can only export in the Entourage archive format.

Our new user wrote back to me let me know that Apple’s iCal program can actually import Entourage calendar data. Once it is in iCal it can easily be exported and then imported into Famundo.

And, according to her, “It worked great!”

Thanks so much for the tip!

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True Stories - Our Favorite Movies

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:00:00 GMT

Hi Famundo

This is hardly earth shattering, but we’ve been using Famundo’s List Manager to keep a list of all movies we want to rent. Whenever I or anyone else in the family thinks of a movie we would like to see, we put it on our Famundo Movie List.

When it come time to order from Netflix, we just look at the list and add them to our cue.

Now you guys need a link to Netflix so I can order directly from Famundo ;-)

Joe in Detroit

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True Stories - How the Vault Saved Us a Lot of Pain

Posted by guy Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:14:00 GMT

Here is an example of one of those True Stories I mentioned in the previous post. This is from one of our users on how Famundo came to the rescue while on an overseas vacation.

We are just back from a family vacation, and our older daughter (14 years old) was to stay a bit longer and come back with friends. As she was to come back alone, we prepared a notary signed document allowing our friends to have her fly with them.

Before leaving for vacation, we scanned all of our documents in to our Famundo vault using the library assistant really easy to use scan to web feature.

The night before we headed home, we made sure our daughter has all the documents she need to be fly back with our friends. Imagine the pressure when we discovered that we can’t find the notary signed document allowing our friends to take her with them.

All was not lost! A quick login into Famundo, opening the vault, and in less than a minute we had a copy printed and ready for her.

I don’t want to even think about the amount of time we had to spend on a foreign country trying to recreate that document. Or the heart break for my daughter if she had to come back with us instead of staying a bit longer with our friends.

Thanks Famundo!

Thank you! Please send us your True Stories. We love hearing about them.

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True Stories

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:09:00 GMT

We’ve been getting a great feedback recently about how many of you are using Famundo and a lot of it is really interesting and unique

For example, there is one group of users who are using Famundo to manage the babysitting and social schedules between several families.

Personally, I have gotten a great deal of use with the Famundo Assistant and our Family Vault. I am always forgetting my kid’s social security numbers and health insurance numbers, so these are now in my vault. I’ve also scanned the kid’s immunization records into the vault. Now whenever I’m asked for the date of their last tetanus shot, I have it right there at my fingertips.

Let us know of how you have been using Famundo to solve different problems in your family life. We will be adding a “True Stories” section to our website in the near future and will post your stories there.

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Scan directly to the web

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:42:00 GMT

We are very pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Famundo Assistant that allows users to scan vital records, such as passports, birth certificates, marriage certificates, etc., directly from your scanner into your Famundo Family Library or Family Vault or Document Center if you are using Famundo for Organizations. With the Famundo Assistant, these records never even touch your computer, but are instantly moved to safe and secure online storage. By providing a visual record of the original document, families can easily replace these records which would ordinarily take months to replace.

The Famundo Assistant is a small applet that runs on your Windows desktop providing a number of helpful tools that work with your Famundo site.

Library Assistant – makes it easy to manage the files and folders in your Famundo Library as if they are part of your desktop. Upload and download multiple files and folders from your Famundo site without even logging in to the application. If you have more than one Famundo account, the Library Assistant can be used to access each of these sites.

Scan to Web – scan your documents, photos and other records directly from your scanner into your Famundo Library or Family Vault.

Offline Alarms – be notified a Famundo alarm even when you are not logged into Famundo.

As always, the new Famundo Assistant is absolutely free. To learn more about the Famundo Assistant or to download it now, click here.

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Example of shared Famundo album

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:55:00 GMT

Click on the link below to see an example of what your friends and family will see when you invite them to view your Famundo photos:

Click here to view my photos!

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Famundo now has photo storage!

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:12:00 GMT

We are very pleased to announce that we have added online photo storage to our Family Library. This is in addition to the Library’s existing file storage, family vault and blogs.

Here is a screen capture of what the album view looks like.

Just like everything else in Famundo, you can set the ownership and view access. For the photos, like the blogs, the default view access is set to public to make it easier to share with your family and friends. .

To share your photos, you can send an e-mail to your family and friends by either selecting their e-mail addresses from your address book or input them manually.

Photos can also be displayed on the public homepage.

Enjoy!

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Getting your family hooked on Famundo

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:

1. Click on Tools > Options on the main menu.
2. Click on the Main icon
3. Click on Use Current Pages button
4. Click on the OK button.

1. Click on Tools > Internet Options on the main menu.
2. Click on the General tab
3. Click on Use Current button
4. Click on the OK button.

1. Click on Edit > Preferences on the main menu.
2. Click on the General icon
3. Click on Set to Current Page button
4. Close the Preferences window. .

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