Famundo

What is it?

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Examples of use in education

Web-based application Famundo is a one-stop calendar. The schedules of those you have shared calendars with can be viewed -- in an integrated manner -- with your own calendar. And they're clearly identifiable by color.

It is a calendar for every facet of your life and can be viewed by different levels and edited by different level authorship. It's so easy to add a new event. Famundo provides a to-do list integrated with the calendar.

Collaboratively you can schedule everything from soccer practice to family fun night or build to-do lists and shopping lists from the comfort of your browser. Let's say your school, church, and scout troop are using Famundo, you can simply visit their site, select the calendar you are interested in and subscribe. You can even designate which family member these events belong to.

A school administrator can build class schedules for different sites. These individual calendars can be edited by the teachers while the same calendar can be viewed by parents and students. Parents and/or students can subscribe to the calendar and add it to their own collection of calendars and integrate it into their own individualized event planner.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Famundo has many advantages such as it eliminates one of the most stressful factors in today’s life, keeping the school and family schedules in sync. By providing a version both schools and families, a family’s schedule is automatically kept up to date. Famundo offers different community organizations you belong to like schools, churches and sports teams. Individuals can use the basic program for free and there is nothing to install. Famundo for Families PLUS is a pay-as-you-go service. Pay for it as long as you need it. There are no long term contracts, no sign-up fees and no termination fees. You can cancel at any time. It’s all hosted on Famundo’s secure servers. Basically Famundo simplifies your scheduling processes, keeps your information private and confidential and it simplifies the communication process. But of course Famundo does have some disadvantages such as you are only limited to 250MB of storage on the basic plan and if you want to upgrade storage you would have to switch to the Families PLUS plan and pay $10.00 per month. This was one of the major drawbacks of Famundo due to the pricing, $10.00 was way to much money to be paying for that amount of storage space. Another disadvantage is that Famundo families cannot invite other families to build a large user base.

References

Cashmore, Pete. December 2006. For Family and Finance, Try Famundo and Fygo. Retrieved on November 20, 2007 from http://mashable.com/2006/12/20/for-family-and-finance-try-famundo-and-fygo.

Kuhlenschmidt, Richard. October 2007. Famundo launches new fundraising program for schools. Retrieved on November 20, 2007 form http://www.famundo.com/press_release/128-Famundo+launches+new+fundraising+program+for+schools.

(No author). Retrieved on November 20, 2007 from http://www.famundo.com.