Google® Power Tools Bible

Chapter 26. Organizing Your Day with Google Calendar

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• Starting a new Google Calendar

• Managing your Google Calendar with Event Management

• Getting around Google Calendar

• Creating Public Calendars and controlling access to them

• Adding Google Calendar to your Web page

• Importing events into Google Calendar from other popular calendar programs

• Customizing your reminders and notifications

• Checking Google Calendar by mobile phone

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Google Calendar is a free, online, shareable calendar service provided by Google. This service helps you to keep track of events in your day-to-day life. And you can share these events with your friends, business associates, or family. You also can search the Web for events that you may want to attend. This simple service can help you organize your events or important meetings in just a couple of minutes. Gone are the days when you must search through tiny scraps of paper to remind you of the day’s events.

Using Your Google Calendar

The Google Calendar is feature rich and integrates well with many of the other Google programs. You can expect these features:

• Share your calendar with others across the Internet.

• Integrate your calendar with your Gmail account.

• Search the Internet for Web events you can add to your calendar.

• Create events and invite others to join you.

• Publish your events so that others can see them.

• Access your calendar by sending SMS message commands from your mobile phone.

The first step in getting started is to ...