Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Experiences using Doodle Poll or other scheduling software?

[Tara Gallen (tarabytransit]

Some thoughts:
-We typically use Slack polls for scheduling. We already use Slack for our
community messaging, so it's integrated. I don't think this would work well
if you're not already using Slack.
-More and more net services are moving to 2 factor authentication. In our
community, when someone needs to log on to a particular shared service,
like our Zoom account, poor Alistair gets a text message with a
confirmation code from Zoom, followed by one from whoever was trying to log
in, asking him for the code. We have not yet found a sophisticated way
around this. This limitation was raised recently on this list.
-Google Drive is very powerful. After a decade or so of using it, it is
still (IMO) one of the easiest ways to collaborate with people in real
time, with very few platform limitations and problems - smartphone, PC,
mac, etc. Multiple users can be logged on and editing at once with minimal
issues. I bet you could employ a Google Forms or Google Sheets solution
tailored to your needs pretty easily.

Tara Gallen
Our Urban Village Cohousing at Tomo House - Vancouver, BC
Completing early 2023. Four units still available. oururbanvillage.ca


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 6:07 AM Richard Daley <rrdpublic [at] comcast.net> 
wrote:

> 21Nov2022
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> Hello Cohousing-L members---
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> I would appreciate if community members could read through the prompting
> questions below and share good/bad experiences using Doodle poll or other
> scheduling software to schedule community and working group meetings.  Or
> refer me elsewhere.
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> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Richard Daley, Secretary to Gainesville Cohousing in Gainesville, FL
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> Prompting Questions:
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> *       Do you purchase a paid version of Doodle Poll? The least expensive
> from my looking at the site is Doodle Pro for ~$84/year per user.
> *       If you get a paid version of Doodle Poll, do you only pay for one
> user and if so, are limitations of having one user problematic?
> *       Have you tried Doodle poll and abandoned it?
> *       Do you have recommendations for scheduling software other than
> Doodle poll?
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