The Famundo Blog: Tag calendars

Protecting Student's Privacy Online

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:44:00 -0400

The internet is a powerful and cost-effective way to distribute information to a large group of people. This is especially true for schools. A school can post their schedule online where students and parents can get up-to-date information quickly and easily. It is hard to imagine any school not having their own website today with some sort of schedule information on it.

But there have concerns raised recently about who has access to this information. Just as this information is available for viewing by the student body, it is also viewable by those who don’t have the best of intentions. Predators can have easy access to information such as what time school gets out or where a field trip might take place.

Famundo solves this problem by providing multiple layers of permissions (5 layers to be exact) to their online calendar solution, so only those given permission have viewing access.

How does this work? A school creates a Members Group that has a single sign in and password.

This information is distributed to the student body, which can then log in to see their schedules. No one without the sign in and password would be able to view it. A new Members Group can be created every year or as often as necessary.

The default view access for events should be set for All Staff and Members Only, so that going forward, any events will only be viewable by someone who has the correct sign in and password.

For those events that you want viewable by the public, such as a concert or sporting event, can be set on the fly when creating the event.

We would love to hear from you about any ideas or suggestions on ways you have used Famundo to solve problems within your family or organization. Thank you.

Allowing Friends to access your Famundo site

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:41:00 -0500

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.

Famundo for Homeschooling Groups

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:07:00 -0500

We just received an e-mail asking if Famundo is free for homeschooling groups.

Answer? Absolutely!

In fact, Famundo for Organizations is free for any community based organization including workout centers, theater groups, chambers of commerce, newpapers, and community web sites.

Please sign up and start using Famundo today.