Here's a question/idea. I'd really like some automatic way of listing my upcoming appearances (speeches, media happenings, etc) in the sidebar here, but I'd like there to be close to zero maintenance time, since every time I try to do it by hand, it ends up being hopelessly out of date after about two months, because I'm incompetent. Basically, I'd like to be able to enter some event with a date, title, and place, and then have it automatically appear in the sidebar, until the date passes, at which point it would be automatically removed. Upcoming should be able to do this, but it doesn't seem to offer the right combination of public/private events that I'd need. Any other ideas? I would think this kind of calendar plug-in would be extremely useful to lots of people/organizations with blogs, no?

Update: Thanks to Rod for the 30Boxes suggestion. I'd looked at it before when it was in super-early beta, and forgotten to check back. It's perfect for my needs right now -- I'm porting over the upcoming appearance schedule; you can see the results in the sidebar already. Sweet.

Comments

[Rod Boothby]

Hi Steve,

You might want to try 30 Boxes. It's a calendaring tool that creates an RSS feed. You can use that to create the list on your side bar.

- Rod

[Matt]

I'd also give upcoming.org a shot. In addition to keeping track of it yourself and publishing it to your site, you're also telling others using upcoming about your speaking engagements. It's perfect for something like this.

[Andrew]

Is there anyway to view the calendar information without signing up for a 30 Boxes account??

[Slav Zat]

After all, the court of public opinion can be far more effective than any UN investigative body...as events in Iraq have unfortunately shown over the past couple of years.)

[Todd Finley]

Reading about 30Boxes. I like the interface, but I use Airset calendar for all my college students to track my where-abouts. It also gives them reminders that an assignment is due in two days (with a link to the assignment in their email). Incredibly useful. Now, I don't get students nagging that I've missed my office hours and they can't get ahold of me when I'm pulled away from campus.

tbf