Fwd: [Google Fast Flip] Google Calendar's Smart Rescheduler

I have often seen committees, secretaries and offices struggle with the problem of finding a meeting time.  Even two married people can have trouble with doing that.  I just read this and haven't tried it but I thought it might be useful to send it out.

We here have both had some problems using Google's stuff but it seems to help to remember that it is all "cloud" computing, all done in cyberspace so everything needs to work on a single page.  Leaving that page for another is a big deal.  That is why the pages are rather cluttered and have lots of small switches, links and indicators.

Bill

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From: <olderkirby@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:24 AM
Subject: [Google Fast Flip] Google Calendar's Smart Rescheduler: Great for Sneaky Secretaries o...
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Google Calendar's Smart Rescheduler: Great for Sneaky Secretaries o...

BY Dan Nosowitz Today Google just released Smart Rescheduler, a plugin for Google Calendar, into Google Labs, and it's one of the most flat-out useful apps they've ever made. It's simple to use, but does an impressive amount of legwork automatically. Smart Rescheduler makes use of the ability to share calendars among different people: you select who you want in your meeting, and it pores through everybody's schedule to find and then rank the best times. That part seems relatively simple, although useful enough as it is--but there's much more to the app than that. It ranks the most ideal meeting time and place through a few simple questions, like which person should get the most preferential treatment, how many people are attending, location, and a user-defined window of time in which to schedule the meeting. It's not a new idea, but integrating the feature into Google Calendar, which many businesses use primarily, makes the app that much easier to integrate. It's still in the Labs enclave, which means it's still being developed and may have little quirks, but it's easy to see the feature becoming indispensible. More indispensible than the meetings it's scheduling, even....

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