Syncing Facebook Events with your BlackBerry calendar

by on April 8, 2009

If you use Facebook, it’s likely you’ve been invited to events by friends using the service. Facebook Events acts as a standalone calendar, allowing you to browse which events you’ve been invited to and which ones you’ll be attending. Wouldn’t it be cool if there were a way to sync up your Facebook Events on your BlackBerry calendar? Yeah, we can do that. It just takes a little help from Google. First, open up both Google Calendar and Facebook. On your Facebook account, go to the events widget, probably on the right hand sidebar, and click See All. At the top you’ll see a link for Export Events. Click it. A dialog box will pop up with a link, which you will now copy. Now over to your Google Calendar. At the bottom of the “Other calendars” box there’s a link for Add. Click it and select Add by URL. Then paste the Facebook link. There you have it. Now your Facebook events will show up on Google calendar. The last step is to install and sync. You can check out our Google Sync walkthrough for further directions. You can sync all your calendars, or just your Facebook one if that’s all you need. Thanks to CrackBery user mantheron for the tip. NOTE: A quick note from our friend Cherri at AllThingsBerry – you may have issues syncing with a Today Theme that already has existing calendar events

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Joe Pawlikowski is the Senior Editor at MobileMoo.com and has been covering the mobile industry full time since 2007. When he's not writing about the tech scene, he can be found discussing his personal love - baseball (and more specifically the New York Yankees) as well as writing on his personal blog.

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Matt April 8, 2009 at 8:28 am

Oh man this is a great tip, I’ll be trying this out right away. Thanks

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mcangeli April 8, 2009 at 8:27 am

Or you can wait for version 1.5 of the FB app (or grab the desktop install) to come out.

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Jason April 11, 2009 at 3:55 am

Love it! Thanks.

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JaggedXJ April 15, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Has anyone been able to overcome the timezone issue? Followed directions no prob. From my PC I cannot change the timezone for “Facebook” cal from GMT. As a result (being EST) all my Facebook events are scheduled 5hrs “early”. Scratch that, 4hrs early. (WTF?) I have read up @ FB and they use detected settings on a PC. My general Gcal timezone is set correctly as well.
I am at a loss as to how to correct this.
Thank you for any help!

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Anna June 30, 2010 at 1:31 pm

Has anyone had the problem of Facebook taking over your I Cal events and putting them on your blackberry as a Facebook event? Even though on your I Cal it is under your own personal stuff?

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Cooper July 1, 2010 at 7:49 am

@Anna This happens quite often. Try Options -> Advanced Options -> Default Services, change the CICAL entry to what your calendar was previously then do a battery pull.

Let me know if this solved the issue.

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Beenie August 2, 2010 at 8:26 pm

how can I open FB and google calendar at the same time?
I tried opening calendar then FB but there no link such as export… Help !!

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shijith July 18, 2011 at 6:10 am

thanks…. great tip….

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