This isn’t exactly a WordPress tip, but it’s a handy tool for coordinating multiple people for an event- or choosing what to do. Instead of endless e-mails, pick some dates and times, send it out to everyone to see their availability and preference- and get a response in one quick move:
Doodle
Schedule an event…… such as a board meeting, business lunch, conference call, family reunion, movie night, or any other group event.
View example, create poll
Make a choice…… among movies, menus, travel destinations, or among any other selection.
View example, create poll
How does Doodle work?1. Create a poll.
2. Forward the link to the poll to the participants.
3. Follow online what the participants vote for.
It’s just another cool web 2.0 tool to stash in your toolbox.
The next Websitetology seminars will be held, Monday January 21, 2008
8:30am to 5 pm
Location Nehemiah University, 750 S. Main Street Dayton OH 45410
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plasq.com – Skitch – Snap, Draw, ShareYour friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? … Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email..Skitch is the Internet age’s Camera and it Rocks!There are many ways to take screen shots of your desktop, from a quick series of keystrokes, to 3rd party tools of varying levels of ability and complexity. But even with advanced tools, any editing beyond cropping and resizing will require another program, and then another will be needed to share it.The developers at Plasq saw the need for a better tool, and the result is Skitch, a veritable Swiss Army knife of functionality – from capturing, to editing, and finally, uploading or embedding. Take a screen shot, crop the picture, resize it by dragging the corners of the window, draw on the picture, add some text, drag and drop it to your desktop, upload it to Flickr, insert it in your LiveJournal/MySpace/WordPress post, share it through the Skitch website, drag and drop it into an email, share it through almost any social networking site, save it as a PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, TIF, or the native Skitch format, then view all your other screen captures in the History window – all from Skitch. Skitch can also upload to an FTP server, or share via WebDav. It’s freakin’ sweet!Like many sweet things, it’s only available for the Mac. Try out Skitch, and let us know what you think.