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True Stories - The Life of a Busy Family

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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New Calendar Security

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:45:00 GMT

We have changed the way the View access on our calendars work.

Now, no event can have more open View access than that of the parent calendar.

For example, if you have a calendar that has View access equal to Parents, no event on that calendar can have View access more open than Parents. This means an event cannot have View access of Parents and Adult Kids, Family, Family and Friends Only, or Public (Everyone). An event on this calendar can however have View access of Private.

We hope this change makes the managing of calendars a more intuitive experience.

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Some more recent Famundo press mentions

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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Famundo featured in Hitched

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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Famundo in Ericsson's Telecom Report

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:59:00 GMT

We are very pleased that Famundo is featured in Ericsson’s Telecom Report in a special report on Family Matters.

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Automatically Import your Google Calendar

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:36:00 GMT

You can now automatically import your Google calendars into Famundo, without bothering to export and import. You simply log into your Google calendar in Famundo.

From the main calendar page

  1. Click on more… > import
  2. Click on Google Calendar

The Google calendar login screen will open.

Enter your Google Username and Password.

The Available Calendars screen will open and display the Google calendars that are available to import.

Select one or more of the available Google Calendars

Belongs to: select the member or user this calendar belongs to.

Display on: select whether you want the events from these calendars displayed on an existing Famundo calendar, or create a new calendar for these events.

Timezone: set the timezone for this calendar.

Click on Import.

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