Online events calendar upgraded

A new and improved online events calendar for the University is now available.

The latest calendar program offers users the options of creating calendars on their web pages and managing the posting of activities, says Meg Malmborg, manager of the Lodewick Visitors Center and one of the online calendar’s editors.

“UConn departments and student clubs and organizations can create their own calendars that might include meeting dates and other items specific to their group,” she says.

“If for example the physics department wants to post their monthly meetings, they can do so on their own calendar. The posting would be immediate. If they wanted to announce a physics colloquium, this can be submitted for both the physics department’s own calendar and for UConn’s main events calendar.”

The calendar project was a joint effort between UITS and University Communications.

Other features of the new calendar include:

• RSS feeds for posted events;
• insertion of calendars into web homepages;
• creation of a mini-calendar within a web site; and
• featured events with color photos to promote events on the site’s home page.