“Let’s do lunch sometime…”

“Do you want to grab some coffee soon?”

“When can we get together?”

This happens all the time.  And of course, it never happens…for the majority of people you hear this from.

Here’s a neat little web app that’s good at what it does.  It is simple and straight-forward.  Introducing. . . Doodle.

A cute little, easy-to-remember name too!

Basically, you go to www.Doodle.com and set-up a mini “poll” where you can enter the topic, location, and then as many options as you want – with a label for the day & time.  It auto-generates a neat little web-form that your friend or associate can respond to with their best options available.

What I love about Doodle.com is:

  • It allows you to ask the receiver about a *more than one* potential meeting times
  • It allows the receiver to input *preferences* for each time proposed that’s very easy to do.  No more strings of back-up options explained in long, lengthy, sometimes confusing emails (I can do Tuesday from 1-2p and then again from 3-3:30p but if that’s doesn’t work, Wed and Thurs from 10:30-11:30, and Wed only at 4pm-5pm. . .yada yada yada)
  • It’s easy and free.

You can probably see how practical this is for setting up your next meeting, group/committee session time, etc.  No more hair-pulling stress going back and forth and back and forth between the team members.  Hope you can find some good use for Doodle.

Try it, you’ll like it!

Here’s some more reasons why you’ll like it!

  1. There’s an iPhone app
  2. You can use doodle from within Facebook, iGoogle, and other places
  3. Words with Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar, iCal, Lotus Notes, Y!Calendar and more.


QUESTION: What group or meeting do you think this service could help out with in the next month?