Google calendar

sunshine · 11-25-2009, 12:24 AM

anyone use google calendar to help coordinate doula prenatal/pp appts?

i've got a bunch of mamas due in dec/jan/feb, and my head is swimming w/ the holidays too, so i'm trying it out. i put my schedule on the calendar and then invited them to view, and send me convenient times for our appts.

AngelsMum · 11-26-2009, 03:44 AM

I use google calendar all the time! Though I haven't ever thought to send it to clients. I tend to mix my business & personal calendars a bit. I tried to keep my business one in a separate colour, but became a bit slack. I don't have too many clients, so it's not an issue.

I also love the ability to see a month at a glance & see the blocked out areas for being on call. AND that I can easily change those blocks. I also love being able to send my reminders for my appointments to my mobile as SMS. Before a birth I go through my calendar and change reminders from email to SMS for the next couple of days.

Mmm ... I'm sure there's more.

sunshine · 11-27-2009, 01:22 PM

my clients and i are having a hard time allowing them to view my calendar. we're not finding it to be very user friendly unfortunately.

any tips?

busybusymomma · 11-28-2009, 06:33 PM

Have you checked to make sure the settings are set to public? Hmm.

At this point I'm juggling a couple of my own midwifery clients in addition to my preceptor's client load but in the future I think I'd like to use Google Calendar more... it would be a good way to coordinate childcare, appts, etc.

raeben · 12-03-2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bellabirthing

i put my schedule on the calendar and then invited them to view, and send me convenient times for our appts.

you are a genius.

now i want to figure out how to do this rather than emailing back and forth 5 times just to pick a good time. one thing i like about the goog.cal. is that if a date shows up in an gmail, it offers me the option of putting what was mentioned in the email down on the cal.

sunshine · 12-03-2009, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by busybusymomma

Have you checked to make sure the settings are set to public? Hmm.

At this point I'm juggling a couple of my own midwifery clients in addition to my preceptor's client load but in the future I think I'd like to use Google Calendar more... it would be a good way to coordinate childcare, appts, etc.

i don't have it on public, i don't want it to come up in google searches. that just seems weird. instead i send an invite to select people and then they can see and edit it. it worked for one client, and she liked the convenience, so i think i'll keep trying.