[Sigia-l] best practices for Events Calendars?

[Bob Doyle]

Hi Eloise,

We are developing an Events Calendar for the CMS Community at 
http://www.cmscalendar.com/.

It can be filtered by region and type of event, with full or brief 
listings.  The calendar navigation lets you go back or forward in time, 
and events drop off automatically when they expire.

One strong point about it is that it is syndicated to other CMS related 
sites, like the CMS Wiki 
(http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=CmsEvents). Each site can 
style it to its own look.

So we enter the data once and it comes out in many places.  At the 
moment, we let anyone in the CM or IA community add events.  When 
someone steals a horse, we will add a login I suppose.

We are watching the development of XML interchange standards for 
calendars (lots of them are available - vCal, iCal, xCal).  When 
something settles down, we will adopt it.

Jackson, Eloise wrote:

>I'm working on IA recommendations for a large government website to expand the functionality of their "Events" pages.   There are many different types of events (training, conferences, trade shows, workshops etc.) held in many different places across the States for many different audiences (govt employees, vendors, customers,local, regional, national etc.).  
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>Can anyone offer guidance on best practices for presenting Events, registering for them, and the calendar functionality that is part of the process?  Also, examples of good sites offering this would be appreciated.
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