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Scheduling Meetings: Two Tools That Help
MeetingWizard and Meet-o-Matic are two simple, free tools that can help make it easier to schedule meetings.
We hate scheduling
meetings via email. Fortunately, there are two great, free services
that take a lot of the pain out of meeting scheduling. We think both are worth checking out the next time you need to "herd the cats" and schedule a meeting amongst far-flung colleagues. They're infinitely preferable to shooting around dozens of emails and trying to keep track of everyone's free and busy times.
Meet-O-Matic
Meet-O-Matic is incredibly quick and simple. Type in your name, your email, choose some times, and it gives you two hyperlinks: one to forward to anyone you want to join the meeting, and the other for you to view the responses and calcuate the best time.
The only catch is that you can only specify "AM" and "PM" for a particuar day, not specific times. That can be a drawback. Still, Meet-O-Matic is one of the simplest tools out there, and there are absolutely no strings attached.
MeetingWizard
MeetingWizard is like Meet-O-Matic's grown up sister. It's got more features, more power... and is a bit more complex. For example, MeetingWizard lets you specific specific times for your meeting (up to 12), download meetings to Microsoft Outlook, upload your address book to send invites, and more.
If you find Meet-O-Matic to be not quite powerful or flexible enough, then MeetingWizard is a great tool to try.
meetwithapproval.com
MeetWithApproval.com semms to have a very good functionality set but it's GUI takes some practice. That prove to be a show stopper when trying to sched with folks that had not used the tool before and with whom I didn't regularily schedule meetings.