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We need to maintain a family calendar and a contact database online that we
can sync with Outlook 2007. It appears that Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, and others all have calendar features, but we are not sure about the level of sharing sophistication associated with their contact or member information. Does anyone have enough experience to make a recommendation? Here are a few thoughts regarding what we would like: FIRST, we would like to maintain a list of all family members on the website. SECOND, we want to allow family members to update their own contact information. THIRD, we would like to allow all family members to print, download, or sync the contact (family member) information on the website with their personal contact lists in Outlook, Vista contacts, PDA, cell phone, or other software/device. FOURTH, we would like to maintain a family events calendar on the website. FIFTH, we would like to allow family members to add family events or notices, perhaps through a family administrator. SIXTH, we would like the alternative of allowing each family to display (sync) their personal family calendar events on the website; perhaps using different colors to identify different families. Has anyone made a comparison of solutions for such needs? We are hoping that Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, or our IP provider (Comcast) might provide such services that would integrate with Outlook 2007. Thank you for any help. If this is not the proper forum, please direct me on where this should be posted. |
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Is this for an extended family or limited to your household?
Hotmail or Gmail would work for calendars if each member had their own calendars but I don't think contacts are sharable between accounts. You could create 1 mailbox for everyone to share but syncing multiple systems with it would be a nightmare in the making, with a high risk of data loss. There are (or were) a number of websites that supported things like this but I don't know if any are still in business or if they are still free. Google is your friend if you are interested in something other than the major email providers. ![]() if you want to own the domain (and give everyone their own email address), godaddy (and probably others) have calendars available for the domains for a small fee. AFAIK they don't share contacts. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010 http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34 "Blue Max" wrote in message ... We need to maintain a family calendar and a contact database online that we can sync with Outlook 2007. It appears that Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, and others all have calendar features, but we are not sure about the level of sharing sophistication associated with their contact or member information. Does anyone have enough experience to make a recommendation? Here are a few thoughts regarding what we would like: FIRST, we would like to maintain a list of all family members on the website. SECOND, we want to allow family members to update their own contact information. THIRD, we would like to allow all family members to print, download, or sync the contact (family member) information on the website with their personal contact lists in Outlook, Vista contacts, PDA, cell phone, or other software/device. FOURTH, we would like to maintain a family events calendar on the website. FIFTH, we would like to allow family members to add family events or notices, perhaps through a family administrator. SIXTH, we would like the alternative of allowing each family to display (sync) their personal family calendar events on the website; perhaps using different colors to identify different families. Has anyone made a comparison of solutions for such needs? We are hoping that Windows Live, Google, Yahoo, or our IP provider (Comcast) might provide such services that would integrate with Outlook 2007. Thank you for any help. If this is not the proper forum, please direct me on where this should be posted. |
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