Details of Our Service

Welcome to the Internet’s easiest calendar availability data sharing service. If you use one of our supported calendar applications, you can share your calendar availability (free/busy data) with anyone and use their data to easily find times to meet. Getting started is easy. Just follow these three steps:

• Register for an account.
• Link your calendar software to our service (Step).
• Share your availability with your colleagues (Step).

What You Can Do with Our Service

We offer many ways to take advantage of the free/busy data your calendar software can export. Once you have established a link from your calendar to our servers, you can send anyone a pointer they can use to setup their calendar software to read your availability or to view your free and busy times on-line. And, once you get your team connected to our service, you can use our on-line scheduler (see example below) to easily find common times to meet.

Example of our on-line scheduler

Using this tool, you can easily see what times are free for required attendees and quickly schedule a meeting without the pain of exchanging numerous emails or phone calls, a process that can waste many days.

Especially Great for Outlook Users

If you work for a company running Microsoft® Exchange, you probably already use Outlook’s built-in free/busy viewer to see when your company colleagues are free for a meeting.

With our service, you can now view the availability of people outside your company directly in Outlook, making scheduling meetings much easier. The only requirements are that those people keep their calendar information in a supported version of Microsoft® Outlook (i.e., 2003, 2007 or 2010), Microsoft® Office.com, Sunbird, Lightning, Google or Apple’s iCal.me and that they register and link their calendars to our service.

Once they are setup on our service, you can easily see when they are free for a meeting just like you can for people inside your company. The free and busy times for each invitee should appear in your planning window and look similiar to the example shown above (Outlook 2007):

Features and Cost of Our Service

With our free Basic service you can upload from one calendar source and share this with as many people as you like. You can also manage a short list of other people’s availability and find times to meet with them using our on-line scheduler.

For a small annual fee, you can upgrade to our Deluxe or Premium service. This will allow you to link more than one of your calendars to our service (e.g., work and home), create separate shared calendars to give you more control over who can see your availability, list yourself in our public directory, and take advantage of our integrated free/busy calendars to share your availability on your personal Websites or blogs. These additional capabilities give you greater control over who can see your free/busy information and when and how they can see it. Here is a summary of our various service offerings:

	Service Level
Feature	Basic	Deluxe	Premium
Linked Calendars	1	2	10
Shared Calendars	1	10	100
Scheduler
Other People's availability	5	10	100
Scheduling Groups	1	2	25
List in our Public Directory
Integration
Annual cost per user ($USD)	FREE	$5	$15

When you first sign-up for service, you will receive 30 days free access to Premium service to allow you to explore our advanced features. To purchase more time, please visit your Account page.

Supported Calendar Software

We currently support the following calendar software:

• Apple iCal as published by the iCal.me service
• Google Calendars
• Microsoft® Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010
• Microsoft Office.com
• Sunbird (ver 0.9 or later)
• Lightning (ver 0.9 or later)
• Any other calendar software that will publish in the standard iCalendar format to a WebDAV server

Service Details

Calendarism.com provides a number of excellent features to help you schedule meetings with people anywhere in the world. Here are more details:

• Support for popular calendar software—You can link and share calendar data from a growing list of commonly used calendar software, both desktop (e.g., Outlook, Sunbird) and Web-based (e.g., Google). Link one or more calendars to our service so you can share more than one calendar’s availability with others or check your availability across all your calendars.
• Online viewer—With our online viewers, you can view up to a full year of free/busy data on one screen. This unique feature allows you to quickly look many months out and then zoom into a time range where your team is free for a meeting.
• Online scheduler—Using our online scheduling tool, you can view the free/busy times for up to 100 people at a time to easily find times to meet. This feature is similar to Outlook's built-in meeting scheduler, except that our tool shows data from anyone using our system, allowing you to easily schedule meetings with people on different calendaring platforms.
• Shared Calendars—Once you have established a connection between your calendaring software and our servers, you can share your availability with anyone in the world who has access to the Internet. In addition, through direct import into many popular calendar applications, other people can view your free and busy data directly in their own calendar application. With Deluxe or Premium service, you can create and distribute separate shared calendar access keys to individuals or groups to give you better control over who can see your free/busy information. For example, you could create a key to share your work calendar with a business partner and a separate key to share with your family. You could then delete or disable the key you gave to your business partner when your project is complete, but still allow your family to continue to view your schedule.
• People and Groups—As your colleagues get signed up on our service and share their calendars with you, you can save them in your personal People list. You can then easily create Groups of people with whom you commonly schedule meetings, making it much faster to find times when everyone is free.
• Public Directory—You can specify that one or more of your shared calendars be listed in our public directory so other people can easily find you and add you to their personal People list.
• Integration—Use our embeddable free/busy viewers to integrate a view of your free/busy information directly into your Web page and blog sites.

If you have ideas for other features that would enhance your experience with our service, please let us know.