Event Schedules rock on a spreadsheet

I've seen lots of event schedules on the web - particularly those conference schedules, with many days, many time slots each day and many "tracks" or rooms, each of which have their own set of event items. Spreadsheets, clearly work great for this - with the rows being the day/time and the columns being the rooms or tracks. This one, posted by the Boston Podcamp3 organizers is an example of such a schedule. It's not pretty in format, but it is funcitonal, collaborative (until locked by the owner), embedded in a web page and easily shared...

Site:	PodCamp3 Boston
Page/Post:	PodCamp3 Boston Schedule page
Spreadsheet:	Conference Schedule

Work Schedule Planning spreadsheet

If you've ever run any retail store, or any business which required full-time and part-time worker scheduling, you'll relate to this problem and solution. Flexibility in work schedules - which is par for the course with part-time workers - makes it very difficult not only to schedule people so that you have full coverage, but also to communicate the plans to everyone so they know when they are working. Well, Bayou Books has created a useful spreadsheet to show each person their hours of coverage.

Site:	Bayou Books
Page/Post:	Schedule for the week
Spreadsheet:	Work Schedule Spreadsheet