The Famundo Blog

True Stories - Keeping track of 5 children's activities

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:24:00 -0400

We are really enjoying famundo! We use it to keep track of our 5 children’s different activities, my work schedule and other family affairs! I have already told a group of moms I know about it and have been able to show our family page as an example to them. Using a paper calendar to write all of our activities and the crucial information involved for each one was simply not working and I had a hard time with last minute warning about something going on. Now I know ahead of time when something is going to happen, and can even see where it will be, who will be taking them to the activity and the best part- when it will be over so I’m not worrying all night.

Rita Lawrence

True Stories - Helping to Organize our Entire Family

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:53:00 -0400

I am loving the Famundo! I’m using it not just for my entire family to keep track of their individual and family events but also in such instances like keeping my weekly supper menu and a listing of my son’s DVD and game collection so that if I’m out shopping, I can bring up my lists on the web using my phone and ensure that I’m not buying duplicates! It is helping to organize our entire family.

Shana Schaefer

Famundo in Ladies' Home Journal

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:46:00 -0400

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.

True Stories - Keeping Families in Touch

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:50:00 -0400

Let me share with you how we are using Famundo.

I’m a Mom with 2 daughters in their 30’s. Each has an active family. One daughter lives 6 miles away from me, but the other daughter lives 8 hours away. We decided that it would be nice to know what each of us is up to at any given time. Also, as a vacation planner, we can see each others events and activities and decide “yes, this would be a good weekend for the three families to get together.”

Between the two daughters, I have 5 grandchildren. Famundo allows me to see their baseball schedules, dance class times, etc. and of course keep up with my girls too.

Thanks for providing us with this service.

Naomi H

True Stories - What made us choose Famundo

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:50:00 -0400

What made us choose Famundo as our calendar system? It was the three most important features that Famundo offered us that no other online calendar application system could;

1) Cost – as a school with a limited budget you will be well aware that anything that offers a great service for free is preferred.

2) Integration into our school website. Famundo was the only service we looked at that allowed us to embed the calendar into our website design – (and did not embed with links to external sites not suitable for children)

3) Multiple author addition. We wanted a system that allowed our office staff, headteacher and class teachers to add events themselves, and not rely on a sole user to make all changes.

Simon Widdowson

ICT Coordinator

Porchester Junior School, Nottingham, England

True Stories - Making Life a Little Less Complicated

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:34:00 -0400

True Stories - The Life of a Busy Family

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:52:00 -0400

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

Famundo in Woman's Day

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:24:00 -0400

We are very pleased that Famundo is featured in the June 2008 issue of Woman’s Day magazine (both print edition and online).

Surprising things you can get for free (or almost) Finally, all the information you need in one place. Famundo.com is an online calendar, address book and message board. The site merges each individual’s schedule into one calendar, which you can access with a personal code from any computer. Very cool.

The June issue of Woman’s Day is on the newsstands now. Run out and pick one up or check it out online!

Edit or Delete one or more instances of a recurring event

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:49:00 -0400

We’ve heard you loud and clear. You want to edit or delete one or more instances of a recurring event. Consider it done!

Famundo now allows exceptions in recurring events.

For example, you may have a meeting every Monday, but often there is a Monday holiday. Now you can delete those meeting events that occur on those holidays.

Or you have a meeting that occurs on the same day every week, but you want to enter different notes for each event – who is responsible for the snack? Now, you can do it!

Schedule a recurring event. Click on an instance of the recurring event and you will be given options to Edit or Delete. Once selected, you will be given an option to edit or delete All Instances or This instance. For a change to only that event, choose This Instance. Make your edit or deletion and click on Save. That’s all there is to it!

Thanks to all our users who send us suggestions on how we can make Famundo a better, more useful product. We really do listen.

Searching by Tags

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:47:00 -0400

Many of you have asked what the purpose of the Tag field is. This field is found in various data entry screens in Famundo such as events, lists, files, and photos. In fact, tagging is used in almost every area of Famundo. Think of a Tag as a “keyword” that will allow you to search for things with “like” tags in the future.

Famundo now supports searching of tagged events, so you can quickly view all events that contain a specific tag.

Let’s say, for example, that your child is required to complete a certain number of community service hours for their school. If, when you schedule the community service events, you add a tag “community” in the tag field, it will be very easy to locate all community service events in the future and add up the hours served.

Tags will “auto-complete”, so once you add a new tag it will appear the next time you start typing in the word in the tag field.

Tag searching will locate all events with a specific tag from 3 months in the past to 3 months in the future.

The tags are presented in what is called a “tag cloud,” which can be viewed by clicking on Tags on the top Calendar menu. The tags with the most items are represented with larger text in the beginning of the list and those with fewer items are represented with smaller text at the end of the list.

By the way, your family member’s names are also treated as tags, so if you want to find all events for a member of your family, just click on their name in the tag cloud.

In future releases of Famundo, you will be able to search on all items, events, files, lists, photos and more, with a common tag.