[kronolith] Shared Calendar Thoughts

Derek J. Balling dredd@megacity.org
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:36:57 -0400


On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 07:42  AM, Ibarra, Michael wrote:
>> My personal thoughts are that shared calendars are better only insofar
>> as they are easier for corporate users to understand. It seems to me
>> that if I roll out Kronolith shared-calendars (when that time is here),
>> shared-events will add to our helpdesk load, shared-calendars will not,
>> because that concept is familiar to them already (Yahoo!Calendars, 
>> etc.)
>
> Yes, and so does paging, IM, browsers, and just about ANY feature that
> you add or support. Your choices are simple, do we hold our users back
> or should help them to progress and make available new, perhaps useful
> tools, that may make their jobs easier. Heck, they may even respect you
> more for it, or at least think that the systems rock.

I guess I don't see a lot of added benefit to Shared Events over Shared 
Calendars. Perhaps I just don't understand it well enough, but what 
makes shared-events something that will just blow my users away? 
Convince me.

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