Schools Across The Nation Adopt Dotcal Technology

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Schools looking to enhance communications with their students parents and the parents of those students are using a new Internet-based Calendar Communications Technology as a solution to event publishing, broadcasting, and information sharing.  dotCal.com (dotCal) is working with many innovative Schools and Universities to enhance social networking strategies for local meetings, class openings, special events, and other important time-sensitive information.  Schools currently using dotCal include:

• Cherokee Elementary School
• Lake Forest Schools
• Deer Path Middle School
• Sheridan Elementary School
• Everett Elementary School
• Oregon State University
• Vintage High School
• Portland State University

“The dotCal Calendar & Social Media platform allows Schools and Universities to communicate directly with their interest groups by leveraging the power of calendar standards and social media,” said Danton S. Mendell CEO of dotCal. Consumers of these events can connect to the information any way they want.

“Our use of the dotCal Calendar & Social Media platform simplifies the publishing of our communications to our students and their parents. The ability to automatically publish to Facebook, Myspace, & Twitter is a real plus,” said Kyle A. Schumacher Assistant Superintendent of Lake Forest School District in Lake Forest, Illinois.

“Very easy to update and manage, the program is an essential hassle-free tool that helps us to communicate across many social media sites and enhances our relationship with our community,” said Katy McVicar Technology Coordinator at Vintage High School in Napa, California.

In addition to using the dotCal online calendar network to collect, post and share event information, on their own sites, the schools are using dotCal social network as a gateway to posting information to other public sites like newspapers and regional aggregator sites. “It’s social media, made easy,” said Danton Mendell, “where everyone in your network can contribute.

Similar to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and other publishing programs, dotCal enables schools, newspapers, businesses, nonprofits and individuals to share and publish a variety of time-relevant information that can be accessed across numerous online calendar platforms.  Because dotCal is standards based, it is compatible with all modern calendar programs, including Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, and many mobile phone calendars, including the iPhone.

About dotCal

dotCal is an Internet company founded by Danton S. Mendell, the founder of 1-800-Support and Pacific Dataware Inc.  As an Internet calendar marketing service, dotCal enables businesses to communicate event information across a variety of business and consumer calendar programs. In addition to providing businesses the ability to share calendar events and other information directly with it’s customers, dotCal also allows individual users to connect with friends and family via calendar-2-calendar, calendar-2-social-network, and social-network-2-calendar connections.