Tech Ruminations: July 2008

Scheduling Meetings and the Email Avalanche

We've all seen this scenario! Administrator sends out an email to 20 people requesting a meeting time. The message ends with "What time is good for you?"

The avalanche of "reply to all" email responses is enough to trigger an Excedrin headache.

Internally, of course, we can use our groupware calendaring system and the meeting planner features... provided everyone's calendar is up-to-date. What do you do when all of the meeting participants are on disparate systems?

Here's a tool that's new to me. (keep in mind I could very well be the only one in the universe where this is still a problem) A free, web-based, no-account-needed, meeting time planner called When is Good?

Trying to get a team of 7 volunteer football coaches together on a summer evening? This is the perfect tool... if they're all online!

This suggestion courtesy of A Plethora of Technology blog.

Do you know of other tools that do this too?

Labels: organization, planning

Saying Goodbye to MS Office

The 11.5 update to Mac Office 2004 has killed Word. It just won't open any files.
Microsloth's solution? Uninstall and re-install and re-update? That may be acceptable in the Winworld, but not mine.

It's the last straw! Downloading OpenOffice.org 3 beta.