What more can you ask for?
Doodle is an online application that makes the process of finding a suitable meeting time as simple as possible. If your schedule is generally wide open then Doodle may not seem so amazing to you. However if you're like most college students, you probably have a full course load, are in several student orgs, have a job, and you're trying to maintain a social life on the side. At times, finding even a small block in your schedule to meet up with others in person can seem daunting.
Google docs may be the answer if you have some time to work on your project. Often, though, time is the one thing missing. Now the fun part begins. You and your fellow group members waste more and more of your precious time sending e-mails back and forth, texting, and playing phone-tag, only to still not have the slightest clue of when the meeting is!
So why not streamline the process?
Take the center of control away from each individual and put it on a website. Doodle allows you to set up a free (really, truly free) account and then create as many events as you need. After you create an event and invite all the people that need to respond, you're done.
Most recently, I was invited to respond to a meeting that needs to happen next Tuesday. All seven group-mates submitted their preferences on the Doodle spread and within a couple of hours, we have our time. The easy to read layout makes it simple to tell which option is best suited for your group as a whole.
Scheduling a meeting time isn't the only way to use Doodle. This is a wonderful application to experiment with and I'm sure that it can be of great use to you and your student org.
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