How to schedule meetings and interviews easily
I’ve been evaluating Timebridge and it TOTALLY RULES!
It solves a problem that I have had for a long time. Booking interviews takes a long time. You negotiate back and forth by email or phone to find a mutually convenient time. Multiply this effort by a dozen interviews a week and it really adds up to a lot of wasted time.
I’ve been looking for a piece of software that would
- Let interviewees see my availability online
- Allow them to book a convenient time themselves
- Confirm the meeting using emailed meeting requests
- Link to Microsoft Outlook 2007
At one point, I was even going to pay a software developer to write a piece of software to do it for me.
Amazingly, Timebridge does everything I wanted. It’s almost as if they read the specification I wrote. And it’s free.
Tom wrote:
You can also try http://www.scheduleonce.com
It’s a free web 2.0 for finding a time for meetings, doesn’t require registration and have full support of time conversion across time zones and daylight saving time.
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Posted on 19-Mar-08 at 9:49 pm | Permalink
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Danny wrote:
I looked at TimeBridge (last month, and I realize feature sets can change) and it didn’t meet my needs. That is: it didn’t totally rule.
What I need to do is put out an offer for a meeting and let all my people respond with their free times - then we just look at common free time to schedule the meeting. TimeBridge (and all but one of the other programs in this space) didn’t do that.
The only program I found that did that was AgreeDate.
[Note, I am not associated with AgreeDate and am not pushing it as part of a marketing effort. I simply tried it and I liked it.]
My students (I teach a graduate course in collaboration technology) looked at several products in this space; they came to the same conclusion.
Posted on 21-Mar-08 at 11:36 pm | Permalink
Matthew Stibbe wrote:
If anyone is looking for the site Danny mentioned it is http://www.agreeadate.com. I’m going to check it out now.
Posted on 22-Mar-08 at 8:57 am | Permalink
Tom wrote:
Danny - Try ScheduleOnce - it does just that, and faster
Posted on 23-Mar-08 at 3:01 pm | Permalink
Mat wrote:
Makes you wonder why Microsoft can’t get something like this linked into Outlook. Seems like Outlook got 50% of the way there then just sto…..
Posted on 24-Mar-08 at 7:45 pm | Permalink
Andy Bosselman wrote:
I can’t believe this functionality isn’t already native to Outlook, Apple iCal and every other calendar application out there. Timebridge looks like a great app, I only wish it worked with iCal. But perhaps we can hope for all of our calendars to start talking to each other someday soon?
Posted on 10-Apr-08 at 4:35 am | Permalink