Don Schindler

Executive Reputation Coach & Digital Marketer

Month: July 2013

How to get Outlook for Mac 2011 to sync with Doodle? – THIS DOESN’T WORK ANYMORE.

Doodle Calendar System

Doodle syncs your Outlook Calendar

UPDATED – I don’t use Doodle anymore. They changed to a premium model for sync.  I’ll find a different solution.  Goodbye, Doodle.

 

 

Most people use Doodle to get a group to schedule a meeting together.  But did you also know you can share your private Outlook calendar with people.  They can also request times to meet as well.

So I love using doodle as a way to share my calendar and add meetings for people outside of Dairy Management, Inc.

Here’s how I did it.

Start by syncing your Outlook 2011 with Calendar (iCal).

Go to Outlook -> Preferences -> Sync Services -> Checkbox “On My Computer”

This got my Outlook 2011 to sync with Calendar.

Then I added DMI’s Exchange services to my Calendar (iCal) – I’m on Mountain Lion.

It took a while for exchange and calendar to sync up.

Once they did, I went to Doodle and downloaded the Doodle Mac Connector and fired it up.

A little “d” shows up at the top of your Mac, right click and open Preferences.

Sign up for Doodle’s services or log in, then select the calendars from your calendar that you want to display for the public.

Make sure you click “upload free/busy information only”.

It’s great to have my calendar out in public view again.  I hated not being able to just share a link.

Is your real personal life and digital professional life mixing?

Real life vs. Digital life.

Where should you spend more time?  Of course, real life.

What will last longer? Umm. That’s easy. Digital life.

How do you keep your personal life separate? Is that even possible nowadays.  You know the govt’s tracking you. And the credit card companies. And your local grocery with its reward card.  What difference does it make?

Where should you spend more time?  There’s a balancing act to it.

My wife and I do a lot of things.  Mud runs, motorcycles, beaches, drive-ins, etc…  It’s a busy real life and I don’t mind sharing it with the world because I get good feedback from it.  My extended family loves the photos and videos.

But it also helps enhance my professional life.  People know probably more than they want to know but that’s ok with me. You can see I’m real and have a life – not just a digital one.

I believe that your digital life can amplify and enhance your real life – but if you aren’t prepared to shape that digital life it can do some serious damage to you and your personal brand.

Of course, your real life will be over someday and hopefully you are leaving lasting memories with everyone you come into contact with – but your digital life will probably last forever so you should treat it like that.  A scrapbook that others will look through when you are gone.  Treat it accordingly.

How do you keep your personal life separate?  I honestly don’t think it’s possible right now.  Digital is so ingrained in our lives.  If you want to protect yourself, buy the right tools to do it.  What are those tools? I honestly don’t know. Everything I’ve heard of is related to scams like the Identity Theft stuff.  Here’s the PPT I shared with a group a little while back discussion your personal and professional brand and how they are blended together.

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