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Quick Tip: Online Gig Calendar
By Rick | September 18, 2008
In an earlier article on gigging, I mentioned the benefit of a gig/commitment diary: either a book which one band member undertakes to maintain by listing booked gigs and dates when the band is not available to take bookings (members away on holiday etc), or an online calendar which all members can refer to. At the time of that earlier post, I hadn’t realised how well an existing facility fits the bill for an online gig calendar.
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Google’s calendar is a great free tool. It allows you to record events such as gigs, with details of location, time etc. It also ties in neatly with Google Maps, thus meaning that gig details and directions to the venue are easily found.
There are two features which make this calendar fantastic for our purpose:
1) It can be embedded in a page of your band’s website, thus making it visible to all your band members AND to venues who may want to book you.
2) You can allow anyone else who has a Google account to have access to add and modify entries, so any or all of your bandmates can help to keep it up-to-date.
To use Google Calendar you simply need a free Google account such as a Google email account, an Adwords or Adsense account, or any other Google user account. Similarly, people who wish to have access to modify or add entries will need a Google account. This should present no problem - creating an account is simple and takes moments. In addition to the calendar, a Google account gives access to many other great facilities and tools.
To see an example of a Google Calendar used as a gig/availability diary, click this link to the calendar on The Ploughmen website.
Topics: Getting Started, Gigging, Uncategorized |