JumpSocial is the Ultimate Community Calendar
As a dance enthusiast, I subscribe to a number of listservs and also have a number of friends who forward information to me about dance activities.
There are over twenty sources that send me information.
What happens is that I receive between 25 and 40 emails per week.
I find out about some events from 4 different sources.
The idea behind the JumpSocial calendar is that information providers can put the information into the JumpSocail calendar and categorize it. Then I can indicate in my JumpSocial profile what my interests are and at what frequency I’d like to receive email (if at all). The system will then aggregate all the information together for me. It removes redunancy and consolodates all the information into a lower number of emails.
Further, because the users must fill forms to create the calendar events, they can’t miss information. I recieve information about activities that don’t have all the details. Occasionally the day of week or end date for a repeating event is missing so I can’t tell if it fits into my schedule.
The system is a work in progress and was deployed summer 2006. At the time I am writing this, we have around 2400 users of the system.
Darcy