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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: All Calendars Aren’t Created Equal – But They Can Be!

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants generally belong to one of three tribes: Microsoft®, Apple® or Google®. Each tribe has its own native calendar. In the Microsoft world it’s Outlook®, the Applers use iCal and the Googlers use Google Calendar. Medium to large law firms, for the most part, are members of the Microsoft tribe, while solo practitioners and small firms can be in any of the three.

When you go to calendar a meeting or other important deadline, it helps if you, your CLNC® subcontractors and your attorney-clients are all in the same tribe, then life is good. But what happens when your CLNC® subs or attorney-clients are in different tribes? That’s where the iCalendar, or “.ics” format comes into play. If you’re using Outlook, after you’ve created an event (and while it’s still open), simply click on the dropdown arrow by “Forward,” click on “Forward as iCalendar” and you can email an invitation to that event to the people you want to include. Then, no matter which of the three tribes (and others) they belong to, they’ll be able to open that .ics attachment and save it to their own calendar.

CLNC® Googlers have it much easier. If you create an event in your Google Calendar and send an “invitation” to that event to an attorney-client or CLNC® subcontractor, an iCalendar attachment automatically goes with the emailed invitation. Again, any recipient can add that event to their calendar.

Applers can send invites to non-Mac users in .ics format (but should read this article).

Now, whatever tribe you, your CLNC® subcontractors or your attorney-clients belong to, you’ve got a way to send them calendar invites.

Keep on techin’,

Tom
 
 
 
 
 
 
P.S. Comment here and share which type of calendar you use and why.

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