10 steps to create a Doodle Poll for scheduling a meeting
Scheduling a meeting or an event should be a straightforward task but it can often be quite a chore to try to work out everyone’s availability. Creating a Doodle Poll helps to take some of that stress away.
What is Doodle Poll?
Doodle Poll is an online poll you can use to set up a meeting or an event with multiple people.
It offers a wide selection of online solutions to help simplify the process of scheduling appointments – ranging from the group event “poll” that doesn’t require registration, to the professional appearance with own branding.
You can create a free account or set up a private account for professionals; or a business account for teams.
It’s really easy to use as both an administrator and a participant.
We use them a fair bit at work to schedule meetings but also work socials like the Christmas party (which seems like a distant memory now).
Here’s an example:
An example of a Doodle Poll in action
How do you set up a Doodle Poll?
- Go to Doodle Poll
- Click on Schedule an Event
- Fill in the Title and Location of the meeting
- Fill in your name and email address (the one that the doodle link will be mailed to)
- Click on next
- Highlight possible dates for the meeting and click on next.
- Fill in the possible times for the meetings and click on next.
- Under Basic Poll click on next.
- Under You Send the Invitation click on finish.
- You’ll be sent two emails from Doodle – one to forward on to participants so they can fill in the poll, and one to administer the poll so you can delete it when you are done.
And that’s it.
It really helps to cut down on all the email traffic too leaving you more time to do the fun creative stuff like creating infographics or videos.
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That sounds like a good idea. I’m trying to arrange a rehearsal with musicians who never have their diaries with when we meet.
It’s so simple to use and really handy! 🙂
One of my fellow students used this to arrange our Christmas meal and it seemed to work out very well. 🙂
Thanks for sharing Rachael not heard of this before but sounds simple and was to use 👍🏻
Really easy to use 😊
This tool is so smart! You could even use to plan meet ups with friends 😛 There’s nothing more difficult than trying to make plans when there’s like 10 people involved
I totally agree! We might be using it to organise something for our 30th birthdays later this year with my friends 🙂
Good idea! Then you won’t have to sit like “okaaay so what about this date?” “yeah” “okay” “no I can’t” etc until you go crazy or give up 😛
And without those constant pings on your phone too!
aha exactly!
Ugh, trying to arrange a meeting was always the worst in my meeting heavy old company. This sounds like a great way not only to get the most people to attend but to figure out the best time to get the most important people to attend. A meeting is useless if you have everyone attending except that ONE person who was key to the meeting.
Exactly I know!!
I came across one of these today in work – how mad is that!
They are getting more and more popular x
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