For many families, companies and organizations, scheduling is one of the most difficult things to organize. My idea is to create a web-based application that would allow groups of people to sync their calendars together.
Administrators would be able to manage the calendar and broadcast it to the employees' accounts and the employees would be able to add their personal schedual to their version of the calendar (which only they would be able to see). Admins may also allow for the group members to upload other events to the public calendar and even make a poll to see which times work best for the most people. Users would also have the option to sync their Facebook© events with their mCal.
mCal would have a desktop application, a plug-in for current OS calendar applications, as well as a mobile application for Android phones, BlackBerrys, and Apple iPhones. All of the features would be availible from the desktop app, website, and mobile apps.
For each event in the calendar, information like picture, links, as well as downloadable files that can be uploaded by admins would be visible to group members.
A Family:
An example of what mCal could be used for in a home would be for organizing all of family members busy schedules. Each family member would be able to add their doctor's appointments, sports practises, and school play rehearsals to the calendar which would automatically be synced on each of the family member's smart phones and computers, as well as being availible online. mCal can help keep everyone of the same page.
An International Company:An example of what mCal could be used for would be for an international company who will be hosting a large buisness meeting with all of the employees in the headquarters, and all of the employees around the world via conference call or video call.. Each employee would automatically have the call-in information for the conference call, and the video information for the video call. All of the documents for the meeting could also be synced into the calendar event or posted at the time of the meeting, live.
A licence of mCal's software could be purchased for larger scale organizations and smaller scale users would be able to buy a subscription directly from mCal. Subsciptions would be hosted by mCal's servers. mCal applications (for smartphone & computers) would be availible for free download.
Love the design of your blog. Your idea is innovative, especially the family use aspect. Many families still use traditional paper calendars to keep track of everyone's schedule, even though individually, it is likely they use a computer or cell phone to store their schedule.
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