How to share icalendars, and contacts across users with iphones

We recently purchased two iphone 5cs for my husband and I to use. We want to share the contacts and ical on our Macbook Air. Currently the Macbook Air is set up as my computer with my id. How do I share the ical and contacts with my husbands phone?

kimberleyallen wrote:
Is there any way to share a group of contacts with another user in the same way as you can share calendars?
With iCal you can choose to share certain calendars so that any changes are updated on everyone's devices that the calendar has been shared with. I want to replicate that system with a group of contacts. I know this could be achieved by having contacts assigned to one iCloud account, that account being the one that is used on everyone's devices but that means that all the contacts would be shared. I have groups of contacts, personal, business etc. The business group of contacts contains all the relevant contact information for the client but also I use the notes section to record details of conversations etc. I would like to be able to share that group of contacts with a work colleague so that they could access up to date information on that client and also if either of us added new contacts the group would be updated on all our devices. However I don't want to share personal contacts which is what would happen if we shared the same iCloud account.
Any ideas anyone?
My suggestion would be to open that "second" icloud account. Use it for you and your colleague(s). Then transfer every contact that you want to share onto that account.
Going to Settings---> Mail, Contacts, Calendars---> Add Account to add the new account, and set the Contacts to ON.
When you want to add/edit/delete a contact from that account. Just open Contacts---> Select Groups and select that account from the list. You can then add/edit/delete the contacts.
Going this route will keep your personal contact list separate from the professional list.
You can use iCloud, google, Yahoo, Outlook.com and others. Personally I'll stick with an IMAP service. As you can also use the Notes in the Notes app. *Separate from the Contacts Note section you mentioned.
KOT

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