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Name: Doodle
Genius Idea: Scheduling group meetings can be a tedious process, especially if everyone in your group is on a different schedule, lives in a different time zone, or has different daily obligations. Doodle makes scheduling meetings easy, by providing attendees with a way to vote on what time works best and keep updated on the status of the meeting in their existing calendar or e-mail program.
Doodle has been around for a long time and already boasts more than three million unique visitors a month. What makes Doodle stand out against other online scheduling services is its tight integration with existing communications systems. Doodle can be used on Facebook, XING, as an Outlook plug-in, and as an ICS feed (perfect for iCal and Google Calendar users).
Your participants can also provide comments, which is nice if there is additional information that can't be summed up with "yes/no/maybe." After you create a poll and get feedback from your participants, the poll can be closed and each recipient is informed of the agreed upon meeting time.
The standard Doodle service is available for free. With it, you can create an unlimited number of polls with an unlimited number of participants. However, Doodle also just rolled out Premium Doodle. In addition of offering all of the standard Doodle features, Premium Doodle also lets users use an avatar, customize the theme of their poll, and add additional input fields. Premium Doodle is also an ad-free viewing experience for both the administrator and the participants.
Invites: Premium Doodle is CHF28.00 a year (about $27 US) or CHF10.00 per quarter (about $9 US), but the company is offering 50 Mashable readers one year of free Premium Doodle. Just use the coupon code 97nz5tx3 when signing up.
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