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  • A Google Calendar List of Events Feed on Your Web Site

    Consider subscribing to my blog's RSS feed. It's sticky

    If you’ve ever wanted to easily publish a schedule of upcoming event, deadlines or even birthdays as a dynamic list rather than a calendar style page here’s an RSS trick for you to use. (This can be done on a public or private page)

    • Create a free Google Calendar account and slug in all the dates on the calendar (Any shareable calendar will do)

    • Google automatically creates an RSS feed for your calender - take this URL and create free Feedburner account
    • Optimize the feed using the Event Feed option from Feedburner
    • Publish the feed using Feedburner’s BuzzBoost option - lots of options for display
    • Paste the code Feedburner produces for you on the page you would like your list to show

    Using this formula produces a dynamically changing list of events that will run from first up to last, automatically drop events that have passed, and automatically bring in future events per your settings. Now, anyone with access to a web browser and your Google Calendar account can update and edit your events list.

    Here’s an example I use for my upcoming speaking events (see the right sidebar) Bonus - you can easily set this up so others can subscribe to this events list too.

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    Posted by: John Jantsch on Mar 17, 07 | 8:08 pm
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    • Great tip -- I love Feedburner, but never thought to use it for this purpose - thanks!
    • <trackback>Google Calendar Helps You Share Your Events
      A post by John Jantsch about Google Calendar reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for awhile. How do you let your readers, web visitors, prospects and customers know what you're up to and where you'll be speaking? For awhile I used Trumb...</trackback>
    • John Jantsch
      David,

      I really think the uses for RSS feeds is limited to the imagination only
    • Charles Burkett
      This is a great suggestion. I was trying to figure out how to list events in a blog just yesterday. Does this approach allow you to list any details about the event or to to put a link to the event?
    • John Jantsch
      Charles,

      Yes, you just fill in the details section on Google Calendar and make sure you click that selection to show the details in Feedburner
    • <pingback>...be able to publish this information from the same location. Blog posts that deal with the subject: http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/weblog.php?id=... http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertisin... Posted in ...</pingback>
    • Brandon B
      What you did on your blog is EXACTLY what I want to do! I cannot get Feedburner to read my URL that Google gave me. Any suggestions?
    • Cameron
      How do you get the event list to go from closest to furtherest?

      Mine is displaying distant dates above close dates and I need to reverse the order..

      How can this be done?

      Thanks
    • Torbjørn
      Thank you so much for this great idea! I really like this way of utilizing all the different tools of the web.

      The problem is that Feedburner has removed the Event Feed option.. I would like to show my feed like you are - but the details are lost, because I'm not able to optimize it like you suggested.. Any ideas on what I can do?
    • Ben
      How did you get the feed to display the actual event date instead of the event posted date? I'm trying to use this method as an upcoming events list, and the posted date would be very confusing.

      Thanks for any help you can give me. Great site!
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