Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:46:00 GMT
We are very pleased that Famundo is featured in the Yuzhi Yang’s Miss Gizmo blog on Ladies’ Home Journal online.
Whether you have one kid or five, each child probably has a calendar full of activities: school events, scout outings, church meet-ups, volunteering, friends’ birthdays… Whew, it’s a wonder you can stay on top of it all. If you find the average online calendar to be too geared toward the office, Famundo.com’s family-oriented calendar might be a better fit.
Read the whole article by clicking here.
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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, 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.
read more…
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:58:00 GMT
The recent California wildfires demonstrate the importance of keeping a family’s vital records in a safe and secure place. Natural disasters can strike at any moment and as a result, a family can loose their important records forever.
Famundo provides a solution for keeping these records safe and secure with the Family Vault.
The Family Vault is a very secure area within Famundo’s Family Library for storing all the documents that are really important, like medical records, birth certificates and banking information. In the event of a disaster, you can rest assured that your data will be safe, secure and always available.
The Famundo Family Vault is more than just online storage. Users can be assured that their documents are encrypted with the same encryption that is used by the US Government for storing classified information, AES 256 encryption.
The password is NEVER stored anywhere in the client or the server computer. Thus in the unlikely event that the server is hacked, the data is still secure. There’s no way for an outsider to break in the vault data WITHOUT the password.
In addition, Famundo has a utility, the Famundo Assistant, which allows users to scan vital records, such as passports, birth certificates, marriage certificates, etc., directly from their scanner into their Family Vault. With the new Famundo Assistant, these vital records never even touch the user’s computer, but are instantly moved to the safe and secure online storage.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 24 May 2007 04:06:00 GMT
Famundo is all about personal and family organization, so it goes without saying that I have been following the work of Valentina Sgro for some time now.
Valentina is a member of the Golden Circle of the National Association of Professional Organizers and a Certified Chronic Disorganization Specialist. She is the owner of SGRO Consulting, Solutions for Getting Really Organized.
Her first book, Organize Your Family’s Schedule…In No Time, was an iParenting Media Award winner.
Her latest book, Patience and the Porsche, is a novel about the life of a professional organizer.
Patience “Pat” Oaktree is the self-proclaimed most successful professional organizer in the State. Never mind that she’s borderline chronically disorganized herself and can’t seem to start, much less complete, some of her own projects. She uses her silent mantra of “Patience, Patience” to remind herself not to get frustrated.
Now I know what you must be thinking. A professional organizer? What could possibly be interesting about a professional organizer? But think about it. When someone hires an organizer, they are basically opening their life to a complete stranger.
Hmmm…this could be interesting.
Check it out.
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