One of my favorite euphemisms is that something is more difficult than "herding cats". It's vivid, concise and accurate. Doodle, a meeting management system that is integrated with whatever calendar runs your day, makes scheduling a meeting time among a diverse set of people waaaaaay easier than herding cats.
Like many other web apps, Doodle offers a limited free version, with paid upgrades for advanced features. Basically, Doodle allows you to offer your attendees a set of available times for a meeting or event. The attendees can select the times they are available, and from there you, as the meeting organizer, can set the final date and time for your meeting. The requests you send are called "polls". The big difference between this and YouCanBook.Me (another calendar management web based app I reviewed in November) is that the final date and meeting time are set by you, rather than offering up space on your calendar to others so they can reserve a meeting time that they need (as YouCanBook.Me does). This makes it great to eliminate the often lengthy chain of "I'm not available then, how about at this time?" emails and responses.
Doodle works with a variety of digital calendars, and the paid upgrades offer some nice features such as custom headers for your Doodle polls, at-a-glance missing attendee lists and requests for additional information sent through the app. Overall Doodle is easy to use, easy to connect and makes it easier for you to schedule time with a group of people.
Where: www.doodle.com
Cost: Free with paid upgrades
What: Web-based meeting management app
Students! Try Doodle if you want to...
organize a club meeting or other after-school activity
coordinate a time amongst group members to meet for a project
Teachers! Try Doodle if you want to...
plan a team meeting
schedule evening or out-of-school events with
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