{"id":5271,"date":"2014-07-17T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?page_id=5271"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:29:56","slug":"doodle-simplifies-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/tutorials-5\/doodle-simplifies-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"Doodle Simplifies Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doodle is a freemium service that makes scheduling a group of people easy instead of dreadful.  Doodle is available at http:\/\/doodle.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use Doodle to schedule an event.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Schedule an Event<\/h4>\n
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Enter a Title, Location, Description and Your Information<\/h4>\n
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Select Potential Days from the Calendar View<\/h4>\n
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Enter Potential Tims and Switch on Time-Zone Support<\/h4>\n
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This is critical if anyone is in a different time zone from you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Note Time-Zone support is Now On<\/h4>\n
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Don’t Do a Basic Poll, Choose Settings Instead<\/h4>\n
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You want people to be able to select "if need be" along with yes or no, or you’ll never find a single time for everyone to meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Set the Options You Want<\/h4>\n
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I Choose to Send the Invitation<\/h4>\n
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If you let Doodle send the invite, people may think it’s spam.  They may think you’re spam but that’s another problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Doodle: Poll created<\/h4>\n
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At this point I copy that link and send it to people directly via my email tool of choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Email You Will Receive<\/h4>\n
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Doodle sends you this nice link that lets you manage the poll as well, so don’t delete this.  You will get notifications when people fill out the poll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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View the Attendees See<\/h4>\n
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When they follow your link, they enter their name, and then click either yes, no, or (yes) which means if need be.  I go in right away and enter my own preferences. I’m smart enough normally to only offer times when I can go, so it’s unlikely you’d see pink and yellow like this.<\/p>\n

When people are done entering their times, you’ll hopefully see a few green columns, or worst case scenario green with few yellows, and now you have the time and date for your event. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Doodle is a freemium service that makes scheduling a group of people easy instead of dreadful.  Doodle is available at http:\/\/doodle.com Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use Doodle to schedule an event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4374,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-tutorials","post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5271\/revisions\/5274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}