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FourCornersCalendars

Four Corners Regional

Calendar Strategy



Overview

• The Four Corners Region is organization rich



Overview

• The Four Corners Region is organization rich– We live in a vibrant and exciting place.



Overview

• The Four Corners Region is organization rich– We live in a vibrant and exciting place.

– We are blessed with many organizations contributing to our quality of life at all levels... city, county and national governments, countless art focused groups, clubs, civic minded non-profit organizations, educational, recreational, agricultural, businesses, entertainment organizations. The list could go on.



Overview• The Four Corners Region is organization rich

• Scheduling “Problem”




• Scheduling “Problem”– In this activity rich environment, residents, visitors and tourists have the

enviable problem of scheduling our time for best use with minimal conflict. I'm sure others of you have experienced the inevitable need to choose among several “must do” events scheduled for the same time.





• The Present Situation





• The Present Situation– Many organizations already have beautiful and very functional

online calendars on their websites.





• The Present Situation– Many organizations already have beautiful and very functional

online calendars on their websites.– These calendars provide great information to those with a

focused interest in that organization. Broaden your interests to half a dozen core organizations and another half dozen casual interests and the situation changes. Put yourself in the shoes of tourists, potential residents, visitors of all kinds, new residents, etc, and the situation changes again.

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• We need a simple event coordination strategy

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• We need a simple event coordination strategy – FourCornersCalendars is a very simple strategy

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– Allows quick and easy visibility into the entire region's rich schedule for planning.

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• Regional standardization on the free Google Calendar by organizations and residents

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• Careful use of each public calendar's name and description to transform a collection of individual calendars into a regional calendar.

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• “fourcornerscalendars” regional keyword in calendar description

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• “fourcornerscalendars” regional keyword in calendar description• Google CALENDAR search finds all our regional calendars

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• “fourcornerscalendars” regional keyword in calendar description• Google CALENDAR search finds all our regional calendars• Add any of them to your “favorite” calendars list

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• Simple event coordination strategy

• Composite version of favorite organizations' calendars

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• Composite version of favorite organizations' calendars– The strategy will provide all residents and interested parties from

anywhere the means to readily find and see a composite version of their favorite organizations' calendars and even integrate them with their personal calendar.

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• Advantages

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• Advantages– No website - requirement for any organization to follow this strategy.

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• Advantages– No website - requirement for any organization to follow this strategy.– No Infrastructure- no submitting to central calendar with a posting

delay

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delay– No investment, No software to install

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delay– No investment, No software to install– No outside coordination - organizations maintain own calendar

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– Single web search - finds all public calendars but not private

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– Secure - password protected

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– Maintained easily - Instantaneous updates – new events seen immediately by online calendar viewers

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– Composite view is unique - each viewer sees their favorite organizations listed in panel left of personal calendar.

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– Composite view is unique - each viewer sees their favorite organizations listed in panel left of personal calendar

– Calendars merged/excluded - with a single click in favorites list

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Distributed Responsibility

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Tool

• Google Calendar • Calendar naming convention

– Clearly worded descriptive name of organization – no acronyms

• Calendar Description convention– Include well known key regional place names in every calendar

description will ensure that a Google calendar search using any of those words will return all the appropriate regional organizations' calendars to the searcher.

– Montezuma County, Four Corners, Cortez, Dolores, Mancos, Towaoc, Mesa Verde National Park, Ute Mountain, Durango, San Juan Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Telluride, Monument Valley, Canyon of the Ancients National Monument, etc.

– www.fourcornerscalendars.org Maintains a group defined regional keywords list

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Four Corners Regional

Calendar Strategy

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