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New features on ScheduAALL

March 23, 2009 - 10:23am

I'm happy to say that, as of this morning, ScheduAALL has 80 user accounts. Assuming approximately 2,000 people attend the AALL Annual Meeting, that means 4% of attendees are already using ScheduAALL. Not bad, considering that the conference is still 4 months away.

Since last Tuesday's launch, I've added some additional functionality to the site:

RSS feed. Subscribe with an RSS reader, and you'll be notified every time a new event is added to the site.

RSS Feed

Contact form. If you know of missing events, find incorrect information, or have any other reason to contact me about the site, anything sent via the contact form will show up in my inbox.

Contact form

Social bookmarking. Every event now has a "Share" link at the top. This provides links to share an event on several websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and Diigo.

Social Bookmarking

Email events to friends. There's also an "Email" link to a form that will allow you to send the details of an event to anyone via email.

Send page by e-mail

Printer-friendly display. Every event can now be displayed in a printer-friendly format with a single click.

Print page

Event Attendee Information. At the bottom of each event page, you'll now see a count of all users on the site who have added the event to their personal schedule. In addition, there's also a list of all public users scheduled to attend, with a link to their profiles. (This information will only display if you are logged into the site.)

Attendees

Thanks to everyone who's provided feedback about the site.

2 comments so far...

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4/17/2009
5:22 pm
Carol Nicholson said...

Hi, Tom.

Thanks very much for volunteering your time and expertise to develop this ScheduAALL.  It is very user-friendly and attractive!

I look forward to the opportunity to add personal events to the schedule.

Also, will there be a way to save different versions of my Private and Public ScheduAALL's?

Thanks,

Carol Nicholson

 

 

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5/9/2009
1:45 pm
Tom Boone said...

Hi Carol - Thanks for the compliments on ScheduAALL. I'm still working on how to best incorporate personal events into the system, but that feature should roll out soon. As for multiple schedules, there's no way for users to create multiple schedules on the same account due to the way the site was designed. I do like that idea, however, so assuming I do this again next year, I'll definitely try to make that happen on the 2010 site. For now, the best workaround I can recommend is to create multiple accounts for each version of the schedule you wish to save. Alas, that may mean a lot of logging in and out to make changes to each version, but there's nothing to stop you from creating multiple accounts, as long as you use a different email address for each account.

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