Years ago, I had this dream where every organization in the SBP could list their events in just one place, and that one place could be used by every other place to give us all one unified canonical authoratative list of what's happening where and when and why throughout the year. It seemed like a really good idea, too.

Few years back, at a town-hosted inter-org all-tourism meeting down at the Sauble Community Centre, we were all asked by the town's tourism director to kindly submit our events to their official town calendar and I, of course, endorsed the idea completely on condition this one true master list would done so as to be useful to one and all, insertable on our individual websites, downloadable to our calendars, always current, open and free, and most of all, instantly editable directly by those who actually owned the information.

It wasn't, so I didn't, and there it sat, a great idea in search of an implementation, undone for two or three years, an itch left unscratched until Google stepped up to do it for us ...

Wouldn't it be great to be able to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with friends and family, and find new things to do -- all with one online calendar? We thought so, too. Learn More

• Seeing the big picture
  
  With Google Calendar, you can see your friends' and family's schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online.

• Sharing events and calendars
  
  You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Planning an event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs right inside Google Calendar. Organizations can promote events, too.

• Staying on schedule
  
  You can set up automatic event reminders, including SMS notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool.

[ via Welcome to Google Calendar ]

Now we'll see if anyone will step up to devote the time and resources to learn and use it! :)