CCC Website – Using the calendar

Introduction

Our web site makes use of an online calendar.  The advantage of this feature is that it allows the committee to update our club calendar regularly without interaction by the webmaster.  The calendar is hosted under Google which has the added advantage that members can access the calendar via a web interface but the calendar can also be imported into your email program and your active calendar.

This blog shows how to access the calendar and how to import the live calendar into Outlook.  A similar process can be followed by users with tablets and synchronization on your phone.  Please don’t be intimidated, give it a try!  Use the calendar in the way that works best for you.

Choose a calendar access option that works for you

Normal calendar view

The calendar can be viewed or printed directly from the web site.  Once you have your browser open on the CCC website, simply click on the Calendar button on the left and the calendar page will open on screen, loading the Google calendar into the window.  You can select a month here and print the calendar if required.  This calendar is up to date in real time as changes are made to the calendar.

View next to your Google calendar

If you are already using Google calendars, you can choose to display the CCC calendar data together with your personal information.  This is very simple process.  Login with your Google user name.  Select the calendar page (this might be hidden under the “more” button) to display your personal calendar.  You will notice an option on the left for “Other” calendars open this and type ccc.webalbums in the space “Add a friend’s calendar’.  You will now notice that the CCC calendar items will display next to your personal items, in the colour assigned to the CCC calendar.

Set calendar notification

After you have completed the steps above, you can request Google to send you notifications by email or sms.  These notifications can include a number of options that you would prefer.  The steps are very simple once you have found the window.  The trick is to hover your mouse over the Centurion Camera Club calendar name in the left column.  A down arrow will be visible, click on this arrow and anew menu will be visible.  One of the options is “Notifications” select this and complete the questions on the window that will open.  Save these changes and you will now be notified as requested.

Import the CCC calendar into Outlook

This description is for Outlook 2010, but the process is very similar on other clients with this feature.  You need to start again on the calendar page of the CCC website.  Note the icon on the bottom of the page.  This icon will allow you to download the calendar link to your PC.  The first option is to download the file and open it.  This will import the calendar, but it might be static.  This means that you will have to manually repeat the download from time to time to incorporate changes in your calendar.

It is better to define this link as a web calendar in Outlook, which will update automatically.  This is done by entering the calendar link:

https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ccc.webalbums%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

Into your Outlook configuration.  Go to File | Account Settings.  Select the Internet Calendars tab.  Select New and copy the text above into the required field of the pop-up window.

When you select “Add” change the calendar name away from the default “basic” to a more user-friendly name.  In this example I have used CCC.

You can get more information on this: Microsoft Page

Conclusion

This feature is very powerfull and can be used in a number of ways by members.  It is however not the place to expand on these here and members are welcome to explore other options and give us some feedback.  There are also many links on the web as to implement this feature on other devices.  Most devices provide an App that will allow this synchronization.

I trust you managed to read all the way to this point and that you did not get lost.  Enjoy this feature!

Centurion kameraklub fotouitstalling 2011

Atterbury teater, Dinsdag 25 Oktober om 18:30

Die idee van ‘n fotouitstalling spruit uit die inisiatief om belangstelling in die klub vir hoë gehalte fotografiese afdrukke te bevorder. Aangesien afdrukke nie meer as medium vir die beoordeling van foto’s in die klub dien nie, sien ons glad nie meer afdrukke nie en sterf dit as’t ware uit.

Die uitstekende gehalte wat huidige inkdrukkers behaal op spesialismedia maak dit aantreklik om jou eie werk op papier te sien en bly die beste manier om jou werk te vertoon.

As eerste poging loods die klub ‘n fotouitstalling om die belangstelling in afdrukke as medium te toets. Afdrukke word deur spesialisdrukkers “Wet Ink” gedoen op ‘n uniforme mat oppervlak gedruk, vereers ongemonteer sodat alle foto’s dieselfde formaat en grootte het.  Die foto’s op die uitstalling gaan teen R200 stuk te koop aan die publiek gebied word. 'n Beoordelaar sal aangewys word om die beste van die foto’s ten toon gestel aan te dui.

Die uitstalling word by Atterbury teater gehou vanaf Maandag 25 Oktober tot Sondag 31 Oktober.  Bywoning vir lede en gaste by die openingsaand is gratis maar moet aangedui word by die klub vir logistieke redes. Daarby word kaartjies by die deur teen ‘n afslagtarief aangebied vir die vertoning: “Vive La France”, ‘n Franse vertolking van afrikaanse liedjies.

‘n Fotoboek gaan gepubliseer word met alle uitstalfoto’s in en sal as verwysing dien by die uitstalling vir besoekers en fotograwe. Eksemplare sal op bestelling te koop aangebied word.

Ons hoop hierdie eerste poging om ons werk vir n breër publiek ten toon te stel sal n nuwe ywer by klublede aanwakker om die waarde van gehalte afdrukke te erken as medium vir die beste van Centurion Kameraklub se fotografiese talente.

Groete

Arnold Theron.

How to register Salon Results on our EMMA server

The procedure for entering your results of Salon acceptances to the Club Database will be only be done with a special entry form submitted to EMMA. This form can be found on the Download section of the web site. The form is in Excel (xls) format. Download it to your computer, fill it in, and e-mail it to ccc.salons@gmail.com

When the EMMA server is started it will read the spreadsheet and update your salon points on the database.

Please submit your salon spreadsheet as a separate e-mail (not with you monthly entries) and only fill in the photos that gained an acceptance or higher.

Members who earned salon points as a judge must also fill in this form and enter the photo titles as "Judging credit 1", "Judging credit 2" ... for the number of points earned according to our Club rules.