Calendar Fly Blog

VCIC Venture Capital Investment Competition 2010

2010-03-24T21:53:22Z

We're just concluding a fantastic couple of days in California, but before more detail on DEMO spring 2010, we wanted to fill you in on another great experience -- on March 5th, we had the pleasure of presenting CalendarFly at the VCIC Venture Capital Investment Competition in the Northeast Region held at NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. CalendarFly was one of three firms invited to present to teams of students from top notch business schools (Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Yale....) each of which won the competition within their school to be able to participate. We "pitched," and students got to grill us and develop term sheets, and the teams' efforts were judged by a terrific group of VCs.

CalendarFly Press Release!

2010-03-22T14:15:17Z

MARCH 22, 2010

PALM DESERT, CA;

CalendarFly, the free web-based scheduling service designed for schools and families, today announced a new nationwide partnership program to help schools generate revenue and enhancements to its core product.

CalendarFly will debut at DEMOspring 2010 in Palm Desert today. DEMO features emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the technology marketplace. Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO, said "CalendarFly is an exciting solution to two important problems - it makes educational software available to schools everywhere, regardless of means, because it not only brings the cost to zero but also generates revenue for schools. And, it gives families one place for their entire schedule, updated automatically."

DEMOspring 2010

2010-03-20T18:56:09Z

Greetings from Palm Desert, California, where CalendarFly has been invited to present at the prestigious "DEMOspring 2010".

CalendarFly Presenting At GreenSpaces in NYC

2010-03-04T15:41:59Z

CalendarFly is honored to be one of the four companies presenting at Green Spaces in NY. The full name of the event is: GoodCompany Ventures and Green Spaces Present: An evening celebrating the power of entrepreneurs to change the world

While probably a longer name than is reasonable, we are really excited to get feedback on CalendarFly and meet everyone who is interested in social startups.

Social Networking Sites Now Used More than Email for Scheduling

2009-10-29T15:49:11Z

A recent Wall Street Journal article describes how the advent of social networking sites has largely displaced older methods of organizing groups, including email.

Many Teachers See Classroom Value in Social Networking Sites

2009-10-14T13:31:07Z

Nearly two-thirds of K-12 educators in the U.S. have accounts with Facebook, MySpace, or some other social networking website, according to a new survey (PDF) a by a consortium of education research groups. The same survey showed that most educators feel social networking sites can play a valuable role in the classroom. Educators identified their ability to increase parental involvement in classroom activities as one of their primary contributions.

CalendarFly in NYC, Philly and the Press!

2009-06-06T10:37:59Z

We are thrilled to announce we were accepted into a competitive incubator program in Philladelphia called GoodCompany Ventures.

At the GoodCompany Ventures kick-off, I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia, who is smart, funny, and eager to help the Good Ventures companies succeed.

And, CalendarFly was selected as one of 60 companies provided a free booth at this year's NYC Internet Week Showcase. Katie and I spent four hours presenting CalendarFly to over 50 people, had a great time and have already have some follow up business interest.

Probably due to this great exposure, CalendarFly has been mentioned a few times in some great places around the internet - check out these shout-outs:

Important upgrades - New CalendarFly functionality!

2009-05-21T09:34:04Z

You can now copy an event to multiple calendars

CalendarFly can now GEO Code your locations

Group Page Header is now the Group color

Children's events now show up as their own color (no longer just grey) on their parent calendars.

Group administrators can now track how often people click on group resources.

What's coming to CalendarFly soon!

2009-05-18T11:33:13Z

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you all know about new CalendarFly development coming down the pike:

Yes - Bi-Directional Calendar Subsciptions are coming soon!

Adding an event to multiple groups.

Email Functionality

Small fixes are coming fast an furious, and here are some of them:

2009-04-24T18:01:07Z

New Features:

You can now categorize tasks. Go to "edit" in the To-Do list area; there is a link that says "task categories". From here you can create categories of tasks - I can tell you I now have a Family Tasks categories and CalendarFly Tasks category.

Small Changes:

1. Creating resources in a group page is easier now – you don’t need http:// anymore.

2. Selected month/week is now orange.

3. Groups search now gives back alphabetical results.

4. The wording used for when users add relationships (friend, sibling, spouse) is now more intuitive,

Small update- Big updates to come

2009-04-21T09:03:59Z

Hi all, some quick updates,

1. We have finally found a fix for the pesky safari bug

2. Recent activity now updates, by default, every 30 seconds.

3. You can add the past to "Upcoming"!

4. Schedule conflicts are easier to see.

5. We fixed a small bug: Some people found that, if they increased font size on their computer, they could not see the logout button.

6. You now have the ability to move around the calendar using the keyboard! ctrl left and ctrl right now advance the calendar by a month or a week depending on view, and ctrl e brings up the add new event box.

CalendarFly is a semi-finalist in the NYC Entrepreneur Week business plan competition!

2009-04-16T09:55:08Z

We are extremely excited and flattered that CalendarFly has been selected as a semi-finalist in this year's NYC ENT Business Plan Competition. There are many great events happening at NYC ENT including BootupNYC.

Check out the full schedule here

Drew

Happy Square Root Day! (3/3/09)

2009-03-03T15:16:24Z

Celebrate because another square root day won't happen until 4/4/16!

We also wanted to let you know we made some additional minor changes to the system.

You can now subscribe to the CalendarFly Blog! (And some other small more interesting changes)

2009-02-20T20:03:14Z

New enhancements:
1. You can now specify how your name appears to your group - such as: Mr., Mrs., Ms., etc.
2. You can now use the "Prev Month" "Next Month" buttons under the calendar.
3. You can now see events you have created or modified in the recent activity section. Just go to "edit" in recent activity to select that option.

Bug Fixing and More

2009-02-12T14:27:11Z

A quick blog post today, just letting everyone know we fixed a few stability and data transfer issues. We also added a feature so that only users with administration rights can edit an event in the pop up window. This should eliminate some confusion.

New Homepage!

2009-02-02T14:54:10Z

Happy Ground Hog day everyone! We are pleased to show off our brand new homepage! We believe this new homepage gives visitors a better sense of what CalendarFly is, how CalendarFly makes life easier and how it works. Let us know what you think, just email me at sales@calendarfly.com

Our first blog shout out!

2009-01-29T23:57:54Z

I'm pleased to announce that CalendarFly was featured in a blog post by a great blog called The Finding Dulcinea Blog. See their post about CalendarFly Here.

To-Do List and Calendar - Now Integrated

2009-01-21T12:15:12Z

To have a task show up on your calendar just set a deadline, and to have an event show up on the task list, just select "task" in the "event type" drop down in the event details box.

Server Upgrades and small fixes

2009-01-19T17:32:49Z

As some of you noticed, we had to take the servers down for a little while yesterday in order to upgrade the servers. Our main development focus is speeding up CalendarFly and this was one of the ways we're tackling the issue.

Update to the To-Do List and Groups

2009-01-16T10:10:04Z

Users can now invite memebers to their groups, and add milestones and progress to the To-Do list.

CalendarFly.com's first blog post!

2009-01-09T12:24:11Z

My name is Drew Aldrich, I am the founder and CEO of Calendarfly.com, and I'm writing to introduce myself and let you know where CalendarFly is headed.