Branding Options for Professionals

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Visualize your company’s branding here…

With Doodle Premium you can customize your polls to best show off your brand or company to your clients and colleagues.

Every poll you create and send out can have your company logo and a background image to add a professional finish to your polling.   

Imagine your polls with ZERO ads and painted with your company’s colors (see above).

How does it work?

You can find the branding options in your account settings at the top of the page. You’ll then see the two options to add images to your polls. Your company logo will replace the Doodle logo on all your polls.

You also have the option to compliment your company logo with a background image. The color of your background image will also be reflected on your poll itself in the border around the table.

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UPDATE: Invitation status

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You may have noticed a bit of an upgrade with the Doodle Premium ‘Who is missing’ feature. Not only can you see who you’ve sent your invitations to but you can also check:

Who received the invitation
Who opened the invitation
If there was an issue with delivery

Now that’s quite an upgrade! You can see if your invitations made it where they were going and if your invitees read them.

So how does it work?

When you send your invitations via Doodle (choose ‘Invite Participants’ and select ’email’), you’ll see all the names/emails of your invitees listed on the poll with a sealed little envelope. If that email didn’t get to where it was supposed to go, you’d notice the little envelope will have an exclamation point letting you know. You’ll also notice that once your invitees check the invitations, the envelopes next to their names will be opened!

If your invitees received the invites but haven’t had a chance to participate you can send them a quick reminder message. Use the ‘send reminder’ button at the top of the page.

Doodle Premium is a powerful professional scheduling tool with loads of advanced features. Take a look!

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UPDATE: Messaging with Doodle

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We’ve been busy working on lots of cool new features in the last few weeks. Check out the details in the list below.   

Custom invites

You can customize your poll invitations. After you create a poll and add the names/email addresses of your invitees (see next section), you can now include a short message. Feel free to include any details you like about the poll or just a friendly greeting.   

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Address books

You can connect your address book and add your contacts by name or email. As soon as you start typing, you’ll see your contacts appear. For Premium Doodle users, these contacts will appear as placeholders on the bottom of the poll. When your invitees make their selections in the poll, the placeholders disappear. This feature allows you to get a quick overview of who has and who hasn’t participated in your poll.

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Stay in touch

We’ve made it even easier to get in touch and stay in touch with anyone you invite to a poll. Now it’s possible for Premium users to contact their invitees directly. The messaging option can be found in the ‘more’ menu at the top of the page.  You’ll see everyone’s email address populated in the box. You can choose to message everyone or just individuals if you’d like to connect over Doodle.

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Improved reminders

Send reminders to get results faster. For Doodle Premium users it’s possible to send out reminder emails with just a click. Everyone in the poll or just those who haven’t participated can be sent a reminder.

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Close the poll with a message

After you choose a final date and close the poll, you have the option to share the results of the poll. And just like with our poll invitations you can add a little note. Click ‘share results’ at the top of the page to try it out.

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Export to excel

When you export the poll to excel, you’ll have all the poll details in one handy file. You’ll notice that you’ll have all the names of your participants listed with their email addresses on the second sheet.

Create a new poll and see how awesome these new features are.

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Doodle in the Alps

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Grindelwald, Switzerland

A few weeks ago we got the entire Doodle team together for our yearly retreat. Nearly everyone from our 4 offices (Zurich, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Belgrade) was able to attend. That’s a lot of Doodlers in one place!

We all had a blast sledging down the Alps and sharing stories over fondue and wine in Grindelwald, Switzerland.

Here’s a little glimpse into our trip. Check out all the pretty faces bringing you your favorite product.

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New Frontiers with Doodle and Meekan

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Doodle is more than just Doodle.com and our iOS and Android apps you know. Doodle is also Meekan! Meekan is the world’s smartest AI scheduling assistant. It’s a chatbot you can talk with on Slack, Hipchat, and Microsoft teams. Just ask for a meeting and Meekan will compare everyone’s schedules and suggest the best time. Together with Meekan, we’re expanding our scheduling domain into other territories with three exciting new projects. Now you can experience the power of Meekan in your browser, on your desktop, and on your Android device.

Give them a try and let us know what you think!

Google calendar Chrome extension

Are you a Chrome user? Statistically speaking, that’s probably the case. And it’s good news for you too. We’re bringing you Meekan in the form of a Chrome extension (which is just a custom program for your browser). You can download it from the Chrome store and start scheduling with Meekan in seconds. Just add the contacts you’d like to invite, and Meekan will suggest appropriate times based on everyone’s calendar. See below. I added a few contacts for my meeting and found a time when everyone can make it!

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Everyone can make it!

Mac OS app

The brains of Meekan can also accessed directly from your desktop with our new Mac OS app. Download it here. I’ll wait!

You can schedule meetings with anyone right from your desktop. No need to open your calendar, or send endless emails back and forth trying. Simply click, add your contacts, and Meekan will find a time that fits everyone. It’s as simple as that.

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Easy scheduling, right on your desktop

Meekan for Android

Now you can have Meekan in the palm of your hand. Download the new Meekan prototype for your Android device and experience just how easy scheduling a meeting can be. Just like our other prototypes, all you have to do is add a contact and Meekan will compare everyone’s schedules and suggest the best time to meet.

If you want to experience just how effortless scheduling is with Meekan, go ahead and try one (or all!) of our new prototypes. If you have feedback feel free to get in touch on Twitter or send us an email at support@doodle.com.  

 

Doodle at AMP 2018

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We’re so excited that our very own Michael Wuergler presented at this year’s AMP conference in Amsterdam.

AMP is an open-source project that aims to make the web better for everyone by creating faster web pages that perform better across all platforms. Most recently, Google has been working to bring the power of this framework to Gmail, and they asked us to develop a few applications for the new prototype.

Now, emails will no longer be static blocks of HTML that age and grow moss in your inbox. With this technology, developers will be able to create engaging, interactive email experiences. Your emails will be more dynamic; they’ll live and change with time. AMP for Email will make it possible for your emails to remain up to date every time you open them.

What does this mean for Doodle?

It means that you could get poll updates directly in your inbox. And I’m not talking about notification emails; I mean that your original admin email will update itself when people make their selections in your poll. You’ll be able to have a running tally of who voted for what in your poll as it’s happening. You could even choose a final date and close the poll right from your inbox. All without opening your browser. Finding a time to meet will be faster and easier with the ability to manage polls from your email.  

We’re waiting for Google to roll out AMP for Email, and then we can move to bring you all our cool AMP related projects.

If you’re interested in AMP and want to see Michael’s presentation you can check out the video below. He starts at about 6:30.

 

Doodle for Teachers and Students

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Doodle is the premier scheduling tool for educators and students.

We get feedback all the time from teachers and professors about how much they love Doodle and how useful it is for them. Here are a few of our favorite tips!

One-to-ones

Lots of teachers and professors use Doodle to schedule one-to-one meetings with their students. It’s simple. Create a poll with all the available 15-30 minute time slots and send it out to your students. You can set a limit on the poll that each option can only be chosen once, so you avoid double bookings. The poll can also be hidden to keep everyone’s names and choices anonymous. Create a Doodle poll and let those one-to-one meetings schedule themselves. If you have recurring meetings, you can just duplicate the poll and reuse the same email addresses. What a time saver!

Classroom voting

If you need to take a classwide poll to find the best day to go on a field trip, for example, you can send out a poll with all the options and let the students decide. If you use the hidden poll feature, you can remove any bias. Date polls are a great way to make decisions collectively.

Teamwork

If everyone needs to get together for group projects, free text polls are the best way to go. Create options like Group 1, 2, etc. and let everyone choose their own. Don’t forget to set limits, so the groups don’t end up too big! You can also print the list, or export it as an excel file, and have all the information down on paper.

These are just a few examples of how Doodle is employed in the classroom. We hope they’ve given you a little inspiration for creative scheduling and polling for the classroom.