Low Overhead Meeting Scheduling
From the Project Management 2.0 Blog
by Dave Garrett
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Situation: You Schedule Lots of Meetings and Want to Make the Process Easier
Why would you want another tool to schedule meetings? You already have Outlook, right? Here are a couple of reasons:
1. Not everyone has Outlook (just almost everyone).
2. If your meeting participants are from different organizations or there are a lot of them, scheduling can involve a lot of back and forth - first in email, then in the meeting acceptance process.
That last part is probably the best reason to try a tool like ScheduleOnce. It allows you to send all particapants a bunch of time range options. They then respond concurrently with preferred times and you pick the best time option for everyone. So to you its just two volleys of messages. Compare that to the back and forth you end up mired in otherwise.
If you only schedule meetings once in a while, then this isn't the tool for you, but if you're constantly setting up meeting times, it's worth a look.
Posted on: January 20, 2008 11:37 PM |
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Shawn Belling
Chief Technology Officer and Adjunct Faculty| Geno.Me/University of Wisconsin
Fitchburg, Wi, United States
Looks like a pretty slick tool. Especially as a free service. I will have to take some time to compare this to the Google calendar tools and see how they stack up, but this looks like something that gets at a specific niche.
 | MikeLovesTech |
GatherGrid is much simpler:
http://gatherGrid.com . You can create a meeting instantly, the respondents get a simple calendar view, and they even donate 10% of ad revenue to the charity of your choice!
We like Doodle -- http://www.doodle.ch/
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