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
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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