Mickey:
An interesting idea but I tried that feature for a while. You assume all of us use MS Outlook for calendaring but I for one cannot. In my world, and perhaps others on the board, best practice is not using Calendar to run any kind of professional practice and not to split personal & professional time management. I run into this argument regularly. MS Calendar is adequate for many uses where deadline tracking and competing priorities and integrating to-do lists are not a daily issue. But for lawyers (and most others needing time management integrated with projects and work), we are taught by law management professionals to stay away from running one’s life on MS Calendar and to not split into two calendars.
The most popular professional use example is Time Matters by LexisNexis which I have used for 25 + years. Some day when I retire from a professional practice, I suspect I will prefer something like Calendar. But the “accept” “Reject: “suggest another date or whatever does not work for some of us and keeping two separate Calendars, say a personal calendar for non-work stuff and a professional calendar, is a nightmare. I tried that several times.
Manual entry is superior and a must for some of us who need. My IT contractors, a law practice MS shop which used MS Calendar for their own assignments and operations, agrees. Those individuals with less pressing needs and who use Calendar already benefit if they already use it for everything else. It is inexpensive but not that powerful.
Bob Famiglio, K3RF
Director - ARRL Atlantic Division
610-359-7300
Serving NNY, WNY, WPA, EPA, SNJ, DE and MD/DC sections
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Subject: [arrl-odv:34919] Re: ODV Email Failure
The most backward thing I see in the administrative running of the Board is the failure to use calendar invitations to schedule meetings.
Almost every blasted meeting you all send out DOES NOT INCLUDE a calendar invitation.
These days, in everything I do, INCLUDING CUB SCOUTS, is arranged by calendar invite.
In the corporate world, send out a message with a date and time for a meeting and you won’t get it scheduled on anyone else’s calendar without an appointment event included.
Creating your own calendar event with Outlook with the attendee's Outlook email address included will create emails to attendees.
A five-device license for the Microsoft Office suite - Word, Excel, Office, Powerpoint, Teams and others - are included for the time you're on the Board.
There are literally thousands of videos about the use of these components of Office.
You might start here, using only a web browser:
Many of us don't see a regular workplace, but the skills I'm describing are required of most office workers. Learn how to use Outlook and office, get a computer made in this decade, and your life will become easier.
After all, most of us learned to use Zoom 3 years ago in a quick hurry.
Mickey N4MB