Never Miss A Local Event With Burbio

With so many tasks and chores at work, at home in Rye, with local groups and with friends, maintaining an organized schedule often is more exhausting than accomplishing all the “to dos” on the list.

One new tool, however, is making life, at least community life, easier. If you haven’t introduced Burbio to your personal electronic devices, then take a few minutes to pursue this important connection and remove the anxiety from managing schedules.

Burbio is a digitized calendar platform that helps people organize their local schedules. Burbio delivers school, library, government and community nonprofit events. By streaming hyper local calendars into one easy-to-manage schedule, the online tool permits families to follow the flow of important daily activities, sync events to a digital calendar and ensure that families never miss a school event or an important community meeting.

Burbio already is active in more than 200 communities in the counties of Westchester, Rockland, Fairfield and Bergen. Philadelphia, too, with its new championship football team, is on the Burbio map that now includes communities in 15 states. The site offers desktop and mobile web service along with an IOS application and an Android app. All events on Burbio also are structured for discovery in Google Search.

Joining Burbio

Engaging with Rye’s community calendars is easy with Burbio. To get started, a person creates an account with a Rye residential zip code. The next step is to select the household’s important local calendars that create a personalized event feed. Events also can be added to Apple, Google, Outlook and other personal digitized schedules, and users even will receive notifications about changes and cancellations. Local nonprofits also are able to post events on Burbio at no charge.

Rye residents already can tap into more than 60 calendars. These include Rye Middle School, Rye Little League, events at the Westchester County Center and community sanitation pick-ups.

As part of its growth, Burbio recently ventured into the increasingly popular voice technology sector. With more people speaking to their devices, such as Amazon Echo, Burbio created a coded “skill” (the voice equivalent of an app). Users now receive immediate feedback about events and other activities.

The Burbio Team

The digitized scheduling idea came from Julie and Dennis Roche of Pelham. They realized that they needed a better way to manage the schedules of their four sons.

“When you think about all the things you can do digitally—booking flights, tables at restaurants, managing music—we found that managing local events was really behind the times,” said Julie. “Recalling the times and places of events was difficult, because every organization established a different calendar on separate websites and in various formats. We decided to look for a digital solution that worked for us.”

Their research led to the creation of Burbio, now in its third year with daily expansion to new markets and the inclusion of additional calendars.

“Until we figured how to create this digital personal calendar concept, a place did not exist to coordinate everything we needed to know to manage all the activities and necessary information for the happenings within our community,” added Dennis.

The Burbio team now consists of a handful of full-time and part-time employees. As Burbio rapidly expands into new markets, engages new technologies and gains additional users and advertisers, the company eventually will outgrow its office location in the Pelham Post Office building. Burbio already is an excellent example of a small business start-up success.