Friday, October 23, 2009
When Is Good – Easily Schedule Your Meetings With Co-Workers
Make Use Of: "We are having more and more meetings around my office. Sometimes it feels like we are having meeting about having meetings. As more and more meetings are popping up, a lot of them have been overlapping. How do you find a common time that is good for everyone?"
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This sounds like an awesome program! the only thing similar that I have really heard about is doodle. And that is really annoying because you have to enter every time slot you need. This way, you can just click the times you want and you're good to go! It's amazing. I have always wondered why the doodle people didn't do something like this, and now my request has been answered by when is good. I will definitely start using this!
I think this is a pretty cool program. I've never heard anything like this before either, until the other day. In Computing @ CM, they were going through the Andrew Calendar that is available through Blackboard, and it actually has a similar feature, where you can compare other people's schedules to your own. Of course, that only works if everyone you want to invite keeps their calendar up to date, which most likely would not be the case. I like that you can select times that are good for you and send it to others to compare. It seems like a very useful communication tool.
I've been using DoodlePoll to schedule a lot of things lately and to be honest it's been failing me pretty regularly. The format is confusing to some people and you need to select times to offer people and might skip some crucial ones. I can honestly not express how excited I am to try this.
This program could be incredibly efficient. Instead of having to have long dialogues via email about multiple people's availability, you could send everyone to one location. Yes, it does take some conversation out of the process, but it is a way to expedite some processes. Like Elize touched on, there are some programs that are not extremely user-friendly. This program is very straight-forward, thus hopefully even those that are not computer savvy would be able to easily access and maneuver through this scheduling tool.
This program is based on a good idea, and is not the first of its kind. The problem is getting everyone involved to conform to use this one specific program for the purpose of planning a meeting. If this becomes a standard, then I can see the program working, otherwise it will probably only be used by a few, making the planning of meetings just as unstructured as before.
Sounds like a useful tool for the likes of us. I wonder though about all these online apps for meeting making and such. None if then trurly seem to be comprehensive enough. While Google seems to have the right approach interns of a unified, online file and calendar and email management system, I for one would much rather have a unified app on my computer or phone for all such things. The problem then being is getting everyone in your organization to use the software. And if your a freelancer, forget distributing it. Hmmmm
This is one of those things that a few people get really excited about and other people don't take much notice. For this idea to work, everyone has to agree to make it the standard. This is why e-mail is the most commonly used tool, even if it's often not the most efficient; everyone has e-mail without a second thought. I'd love to look into this program more, but I doubt it will catch on immediately.
This is pretty nifty and appears to have more features than doodle which is also good. This seems like it would make people less reluctant to go to meetings since they get can put a variety of times there that are best for them and then it is at the convenience of the program which time people meet, not any one particular person.
This is such a good idea. It can be really annoying to get lots of people together at the same time and I think that this program will really help that process get easier. I think this program would be especially useful in our industry where each person who is a part of a production has such a different schedule It's often hard to get everyone together and to know who is doing what all the time.
This is a good program and the great part is that it is free. I was actually just about to say the same thing Tiffany said because that service is available to us through our university calendar online. But for people that aren't CMU students this is free and easy. Every time I see an article like this one I just cannot believe how technology is needed in our society. We have now become so busy that we need this calendar to tell us when everyone can meet because they have free time.
This program sounds a lot like doodle, though perhaps a bit more intuitive. I wish SOD would utilize programs like this more often when creating meetings. Granted, oracle has the same functionality, but it's much faster to simply get a visual and pick a date. I just wonder how this program is accepted in a professional work environment. I feel like it's fairly new that some offices are not opened to utilizing it.
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