Organize homeschooling activities with your buddies online
with the hottest new web tools that just now becoming widely
available: Web Datebooks!
Note: when I checked these links in 2003, some of these datebooks
were no longer free. What can I say. Sorry about that.
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Basecamp offers message boards, to-do lists, simple scheduling,
collaborative writing, and file sharing. Campfire brings simple
group chat to the business setting. personal information managers.
Backpack's simple take on pages, notes, to-dos, and cellphone/email-based
reminders is a novel idea in a product category that suffers
from status-quo-itis. Writeboard lets you write, share, revise,
and compare text solo or with others. Ta-da List keeps all your
to-do lists together and organized online.
* Email * Calendar * To Do Lists * Bookmarks
* Chat * Collorative Files * Reminders
Calendars.Net
Designed for you homeschool site webmasters who want to integrate
interactive calendars with their websites. Site members may add
events to the calendar if you wish. While Calendars Net also
hosts personal calendars, it is uniquely valuable to webmasters.
* Basic calendar *
Community Zero
An interactive website that allows a group of people to communicate
and exchange information over the Internet in their own private
and secure area. Within each area, called an online community,
participants are provided access to a suite of powerful tools
that enable a group to effectively get organized, share knowledge
and communicate.
* Email * Private calendar * Bookmarks * Chat
* Polls * Files * Photos
eBoard
Your own "Virtual Corkboard" where you can post messages,
photos and links online in seconds. With an eBoard you can quickly
and easily make information accessible to others on your own
private place online. eBoard is perfect for anyone who would
like to put information online but doesn't have the need for
a web site. You can use eBoard as a personal homepage, a "home
base" for your support group online: a private place to
share messages and photos with your group.
e2do
Create your own lists of things to do, dates to remember, books
to read, movies to rent, or whatever! Select items from different
lists to create daily To Do lists. Have your family add items
to lists using e2do bulletin board lists. You can even send your
e-lists to other people (now that's one way of getting things
done!) Free
* Lists * Assign Tasks * Track Projects
FamilyBuzz.com
A free online meeting place for family and friends. Inside is
a private web site for your family. Some of their unique features
include: a calendar, phone book, message board, free email, photo
album and chat. Ideal for the spread-out homeschooling extended
family or support group. I also recommend such sites as this
to divorced couples trying to coordinate homeschooling between
two locations. Keeping a copy of each day's accomplishments on
the calendar could reassure the other parent. Children's essays
could go on the message board, and photos of activities in the
album. Might be easier to "chat" online than argue
with long distance bills.
* Email * Private calendar * Address Book
* Photo Album * Chat * Boards
Groups@AOL
While only an AOL member may start one of these sites, anyone
on the web may join. It's a private area you can set up, and
then invite friends and family to join. In your Group, you can:
Start photo collections that everyone can add to. Read and post
private messages. Plan events in a shared calendar.
* Events * Boards * Calendar * Photo Album
HotDiary.com
Allows you to get organized, communicate and be informed. You
can also share calendars, publish calendars, create and manage
contacts and groups with others, easier than ever before for
free. With HotDiary you can create secure calendars with password-protected
group websites. HotDiary can send reminders to you by Pager,
Fax and Email! You can even invite multiple groups of people
by sending them reminders by Pager, Fax and Email. Great for
ISPs and domain owners who want to license the software and host
it on their servers. Also great for homeschool publications that
want subscriber-only access to their content.
* Email * Private calendar * Address Book
* Chat * Boards * Reminders
IntraNets.com
An online application for group collaboration. Looks perfect
for a group planning a large event, such as a conference or convention.
* Document Manager * Online Calendar * Group
Scheduling * Task Manager * Web Conferencing * Audio Conferencing
* Database Manager
JungleMate.com
Seems ideal for you online homeschool vendors. Keep in email
contact with your customer list online. Bookmark those sites
that keep you listed. The Notepad feature is a searchable ToDo
list or anything else you want to keep as an online database.
Calendar schedule is also searchable. This is not a group package,
however, and you can't synchronize the material with your personal
computer.
* Email * Reminders * Address Book * ToDo
List
MyFamily.com
Your free, private family web site. It's quick, easy, and FREE!
Set up a site and post photos, chat, use the family calendar,
go shopping, do online activities, and more. Over 1.2 million
members love it. Invite your family and friends. There's a calendar
to help everyone remember birthdays and anniversaries, a message
boards for family news and discusson, a special section for everyone
to work on keeping up the family tree, and even room for storing
favorite files! Have a private chat with family members and share
a mutual address book so that sending out holiday greetings will
be a snap. Catch: there's a shopping area convenient for buying
birthday gifts just one click away.
* Email * Address Book * Events * News * File
Library * Family Tree *Voice or Text Chat
Professional Virtual
Office
Internet access to personal and/or shared tools: calendar, addressbook,
documents, notes, tasks, forums, meetings, bookmarks, webmail
and much more. Syncs with handheld organizers and pocket PCs.
Receive your agenda on your cell phone.
* Webmail * Address Book * Events * News *
File Library * Forums * Bookmarks
uReach.com
The most complete communication website I've come across yet!
One of its best features is a free 800 number and inexpensive
call-forwarding service. This would be ideal for homeschool support
counselors who don't want to mix their personal and support lives,
but who need to have a number published in print or online. A
support group could have one number, and change who the calls
got forwarded to from time to time.
* Voicemail * Faxes * Email * Paging * ICQ
* Reminders * Address Book * Calendar * To-do List * File Storage
Yahoo.com
Offers a fully featured group calendar that can be public or
privately shared. Reminders can be sent to you in several ways,
including email and pager. Send invitations to others, and they
can easily update their Yahoo calendars, too. Easily allows you
to schedule repeating events. Keep a ToDo list that can be checked
off when done. Handy for a group working together on a project
long distance. Synchronization works with specific products not
offered free.
* Email * Reminders * Address Book * ToDo
List * Synchronization
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