Let's doodle

Thing 14 - Doodle is an online arrangement making tool, which allows you to create polls.  The default setting is for a calendar based poll, such as arranging a tea date (see twinset and purls for that one), but you can poll anything.  It's similar to the function to schedule meetings and accept, decline, tentatively accept etc. on Microsoft Outlook, except with Doodle you don't have to be using outlook and you can arrange engagements with people from anywhere - not just those in your outlook contacts.

A recent innovation in our library office is the removal of all individual waste bins from desks (we all had one), with just our recycling bin, communal bin and a composting bin remaining.  I'm sure the intention is for us to recycle more.  Excellent, great idea.  Except those bits of sellotape that you have left over are a nuisance strewn across my desk...I can't get up and go to the bin in the staff room all the time...  I created a doodle poll that asks:

When would you like your bin back?

Results are here.  The only colleague with her own bin remaining is clearly waiting for the authorities to catch up with her...

I think this is a great innovation.  Outlook scheduling serves a great purpose (for instance to schedule meetings with those in your organisation), and doodle has taken that and opened it up for everyone.  Typical of an online resource it is global, and allows to reach globally too.  Only criticism is the interface is a bit bland *extremely minor gripe*, however the ease of functionality is great and I didn't even have to sign up to another thing.