There are many ways to add free gadgets and widgets to your blog or website, but perhaps a lesser known technique is to embed a Google Spreadsheet.

You can always include a simple link to your published Google Spreadsheet, but what I'm talking about is displaying the actual spreadsheet or a portion of the spreadsheet on your site like the example below which shows a school event calendar for a fictional elementary school.

We've recently discovered the beauty of Embedding Google Spreadsheets in Blogs, and calendars and schedules make for excellent examples. If you don't feel like creating your own spreadsheet, you are welcome to embed any of our preformatted calendars listed on this page. All of the calendars listed on this page are perpetual or automatically updated, meaning that they will update every 20 minutes or so. The one downside is that the current day is based on one specific timezone, Mountain Standard Time (MST) or GMT-7.