When are you free?

Posted on April 17th, 2008 in MSOffice, Productivity, Tools, Web by Jay

Have just been playing with a tool called TimeBridge, it’s a meeting planner type application that integrates into Outlook and allows you to setup of a meeting. Sounds simple, but as soon as you add people from multiple companies in multiple time zones it get complex and a down-right waste of time.

Timebridge solves the typical back and forth issue by allowing you to suggest up to 5 time slots from your own outlook calendar and then sending invitations off to the attendees. The attendees then choose the best time slot for them (no registration required) and then once a consensus is agreed the meeting is booked and everyone notified.

It’s a nice solution to a complex problem, and just seems to work. The only thin I’m a little unhappy about is the upsell that happens. “Did you want to book a web conference?” but hey? What did you expect for free?

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Comment by Tracy
2008-04-18 21:35:39

You should really try ScheduleOnce, it’s so much easier than Timebridge and you don’t have to register to use it.

Comment by Jay
2008-04-18 22:08:27

Thanks for this, i went and had a look at ScheduleOnce. The thing I really like about TimeBridge is the outlook integration. It show my calendar and calendars for the people i’m inviting (when it can). So in effect I only need to manage the one calendar, not one in outlook and one online. I think you’re right though, ScheduleOnce does seem easier.

 
 
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