Doodle is a free online meeting scheduler. It allows users to offer up a series of times for a meeting and have their colleagues vote on the most convenient time, date and place for the meeting to happen. This free online meeting scheduler makes the entire process of meeting organization less of a headache for those involved.
How to schedule a meeting online with Doodle Free Online Meeting Scheduler:
Using this free meeting organizer to plan an event couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is click the “Schedule Event” button and then input the basic details of the event, such as the title and a brief description of what the plans are or an agenda.
The next step is to choose the potential days for the meeting to happen on. This is done with a simple and user friendly calendar that can be navigated very easily indeed. You can refine the information further here by selecting time slots within the selected days. This gives you a greater degree of control as to when your meetings will happen.
After completing these steps, you are provided with the URL of your poll. You can email this link to those you want to poll and they can very easily indicate which times they are available on.
Visiting the link also allows you to manage the poll and see who is available when and thus plan the best possible time for the meeting to take place.
(If you want to create polls for Twitter, you can use TwtPoll, or PollDaddy.)
Here are some of the features of Doodle Free Online Meeting Scheduler:
- Event scheduling (polls, voting, etc).
- Poll options.
- Calendar sync.
- Unlimited polls and participants.
- File uploading system (100MB per poll).
- Event address.
- Dashboard for poll management, including polls you have initiated and polls you have participated in.
- User identification, so only the user in question can change their vote.
If you want to conduct a meeting online using online screen sharing, try these free tools: Yugma, Mikogo, and DimDim.
Conclusions…
Doodle is a simple but effective free meeting organizer. It lacks the depth of features that some of its competitors offer, but its general efficiency and clean interface make it a solid choice for anyone who wishes to take planning to a simple level.
