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Online calendar gets a complete re-do

Mark your calendars! As of today (May 12), 嘿嘿视频 has a new and improved online calendar, THE place to go for the most complete listing, all in one place, of what鈥檚 happening at 嘿嘿视频, from seminars and conferences, and arts and athletic events, to fairs, expos and exhibits.

The new calendar, from the , replaces a homegrown system more than 10 years old.

You鈥檒l see the difference immediately: Images and logos, map links (for venues), search and filter tools, and 鈥淎dd to calendar鈥 and 鈥淔orward to friends鈥 buttons. Open an event and you鈥檒l see more options, such as email and text reminders to yourself. And, if event planners have opted to use the registration tool, you can sign up via the calendar.

Every event also includes easy-to-use sharing tools for social media. And you can easily subscribe to automatic feeds for all events that fit your personal criteria. Or subscribe to the entire calendar!

The new, Trumba-based calendar system is easily customized. A department, for example, can gather all of its events from the main calendar, and embed them as a calendar on the department鈥檚 website. This way, department personnel are inputting each event only once and displaying it in multiple locations.

鈥淭his is the first time we are offering one calendaring system to the entire campus," said Luanne Lawrence, associate chancellor for Strategic Communications. "Now everyone 鈥 faculty, staff, students and visitors 鈥 have a one-stop location to see the breadth of activities on any given day.

鈥淚 am looking forward to having this 鈥極ne 嘿嘿视频鈥 tool provide a singular point of entry to the vast array of opportunities at our university.鈥

Sort the listings to your liking

Looking for today鈥檚 events? and there they are 鈥 as a detailed list, a simple list or in a month view. If you鈥檇 like to skip ahead, click on a different date in the mini calendar at the top of the right-hand column.

If an event runs for multiple days, you鈥檒l see it listed for every one of those days 鈥 a big upgrade from the old calendar, which lumped multiple-day events into a separate category.

You鈥檒l find the search tool under the mini calendar, and under that you鈥檒l see three basic filters with boxes to check or uncheck:

  • Category 鈥 Including 鈥渁thletics and sports,鈥 鈥渃eremonies,鈥 鈥渃onferences and symposia,鈥 鈥渆nvironment and sustainability,鈥 鈥渇amily events for all ages,鈥 鈥渇ood and agriculture,鈥 鈥渉ealth and wellness,鈥 鈥渓ectures and seminars鈥 and 鈥渨orkshops and training.鈥
  • Audience 鈥 Including 鈥渁ll faculty and staff,鈥 鈥渁lumni鈥 and 鈥渁ll registered students.鈥
  • Location 鈥 Davis campus, Sacramento campus and 鈥渙ther.鈥

You can also use prefiltered calendars, accessible via links in the upper left-hand corner. On each of those pages, you will see one or more related calendar links, allowing you to narrow your view within the broad category that you started with.

For example, say you start with 鈥渁cademic dates and deadlines.鈥 From there you can drill down to 鈥渃ommencement schedule and graduation celebrations鈥 and 鈥渦niversity holidays,鈥 among other selections.

Or, say you start with 鈥渁rts, entertainment and outdoor events.鈥 You can drill down from there to 鈥淢ondavi Center鈥 and even further to 鈥渄ance,鈥 鈥渇ilm,鈥 鈥渕usic,鈥 鈥渟peakers鈥 or 鈥渢heater.鈥

Oh, and here鈥檚 another feature: The calendar shows more than event listings. On the Mondavi Center pages, for example, you鈥檒l find information about the venue: a photo, directions and parking, and ticket office website, phone number and hours.

Designated calendar administrators

The new calendar, like the old one, is open to all 嘿嘿视频 departments and units, but there鈥檚 a change in how events are added. In the old system, anyone could enter an event, and Strategic Communications would review the listing and add it to the calendar.

Under the new system, departments and units are still entering their own events, but they don鈥檛 come to Strategic Communications. Instead, listings go to designated calendar administrators in the colleges and schools and administrative units. Once a designated calendar administrator reviews and approves a post, it goes live on the main calendar.

The process of inputting events is vastly improved. Take repeat events, for example, like the Meat Lab鈥檚 weekly sales: Instead of a new entry for every week, you simply check the 鈥渞epeat鈥 box.

Do you have events you鈥檇 like to add to the calendar? Contact your college-school-administrative unit鈥檚 designated calendar administrator, usually someone in marketing and communications. Not sure whom to contact? Send an email to calendar@ucdavis.edu.

鈥淲e want our new calendar to be as complete as possible, and that depends on everyone contributing their events,鈥 said Strategic Communications Web architect Adam Napolitan, who has been working with designated calendar administrators around the campus.

A cornerstone of 嘿嘿视频 website

All this prep work led to the calendar listings you see today. But it鈥檚 certainly not complete 鈥 not yet, anyway.

For example, the old calendar includes events that have not been transferred to the new one. 鈥淚f you submitted one of those events, please consider adding it to the new calendar,鈥 Napolitan said. 鈥淲e transferred as many as we could, but we just couldn鈥檛 get to all of them 鈥 and we wanted to roll out the calendar as soon as possible.鈥

He said he also expects more departmental participation, once event planners see the new calendar and all it offers.

鈥淵ou can give complete descriptions of your events, you can list the sponsors, you can add logos or speaker photos,鈥 Napolitan said. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a drop-down menu for campus venues, and each one links to the campus map.鈥

You can also choose the categories in which your event will be displayed to people who use filtering.

鈥淭his calendar will be a cornerstone of the 嘿嘿视频 website going forward, as we work to bring greater awareness to all that happens at 嘿嘿视频,鈥 Napolitan said.

鈥淭here are dozens of events here every day, and we鈥檝e developed a robust and refined way to get the word out. Take a look, and we think you鈥檒l agree.鈥

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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu

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