Manage Meetings Efficiently Using Google Calendar

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Meetings can be both a waste of time as well as a constructive use of time depending on how they are managed. 🙂 Google Calendar provides a good way to ensure that meetings to be created don’t drag on way past their fixed duration. This is particularly important if there are back-to-back meetings and that if one meeting goes past it’s arranged cut off time, this may affect subsequent...

Receive Meeting Notifications By Text Messages Using Google Calendar

Google calendar is a free service which is useful to manage time by setting up events, meetings and other planned activities. One cool feature that it has is the ability to notify of upcoming meetings/tasks scheduled directly through text messages (SMS on cell phone so there is no need to check email every time. To do this : 1.       Login to Google calendar (need to have a Google...

Use Google Calendar From Gmail Inbox

There is a handy option of integrating the Google calendar with Gmail so that one doesn’t need to go to www.google.com/calendar everytime to check or manage events, meetings and other activities. To do this : 1. First go to Settings from within the Gmail inbox and select Labs. 2. Scroll down to Google calendar gadget and select Enable. 3. Save these changes and go back to Gmail inbox. 4. Notice...