Syncing iCal between multiple users

My iMac is set up with multiple accounts (one for me, one for my wife and one for my son). We all use iCal to schedule events, etc. How in the world do I sync up all of our versions of iCal so that we can automatically see the events that each of us has created? iCal is useless unless we can have it auto sync between all users.

iCal really is not designed to work for more than one user.
However, you can each publish your calendars so that the others can subscribe:
Select a calendar from the list on the left of the screen.
Under the calendar menu, choose 'publish'
If you don't have .Mac you will need to choose the publish on a Private Server option. (If you do this, there's a good one at iCalx.com where you can create a new account.)
Look at the options when you do this, you will probably want at least to choose the auto update one.
Once you have published successfully, you can choose to send a mail to those who you wish to share with.
Your wife and son need just to open the mail and select the subscribe link.
IF you repeat this process for each of you, you will then have a view of what each of you is doing and when. Biggest downside I see to this, is if more than one of you is doing the same thing, you'll get repetition of that event.
In addition, there are numerous 3rd party solutions that you can find through something like versiontracker.com.

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