Sharing Your Google Calendar
What good is a calendar if you cannot use it to collaborate? This is the primary reason some companies still stick to Outlook email systems–so their staff can collaborate using the Outlook calendar. Of course there are the more sophisticated means of collaboration, such as with IBM’s Lotus Notes and other such software suites that rely on a server-based system residing somewhere in the company’s facilities.
Fortunately for the rest of us who don’t have millions of company money at our disposal, Google has just the tool for sharing calendars. All right, it’s not as sophisticated as those other expensive systems. It does offer full collaboration features (like the ability to access others’ calendars or group calendars), and you can also share your calendar and events with the general public.
There are several ways to share, and here are few interesting ones, from the Event Publisher Guide.
Share a web copy of your calendar
To link, simply click on the menu icon beside the calendar name, and then click “Calendar Settings.”
Then you copy the link URL for the “HTML” button. This is what you should share so your friends can view your calendar on the Web via Google.
You can let people subscribe to your calendar via Google RSS reader or their favorite RSS clients. Simply click on the “get the code” link beside “Use this button on your site to let others subscribe to this calendar,” to get the HTML you will have to paste on your website or blog.
It’s good to link, but it’s even more fun to embed your calendar on your site. We’ll talk about this next.
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This is decent article and I managed to do the same but what my ultimate goal is to allow my friends who don’t have Gmail account and don’t want to open one, to make entries or edit entries in my calendar.
There seems to be some option which allows so (at least as said by Google) and when I tried this, it asks my friends to first open Gmail account to make entries.
Any idea how this can be done?
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