Doodle Blog

Doodle published a Gadget for iGoogle almost exactly one year ago. It is used heavily and feedbacks are very positive, e.g. this one: “A simple but great plugin to see my Doodles. From the creator of Doodle himself. Cool idea and extremly useful!”

The same gadget can be used in many other places:

• In the sidebar of your Firefox browser: Visit this address, create a bookmark, edit the new bookmark’s properties and activate the “open in sidebar” checkbox, then open the bookmark.
• In your Gmail sidebar: Activate Gmail labs, enable “add any gadget by URL”, go to “Settings / Gadgets” and add the Doodle gadget (URL).
• In your Google Calendar: Activate labs for Google calendar, enable the “add any gadget by URL” gadget and use that gadget to add the Doodle gadget (URL).

Where else can it be used? Tell us in the comments!

And BTW: we also have a Facebook and a XING app. And there are other ways to integrate Doodle with Google’s and others’ calendars. Learn more.

Doodle is an online partner of LeWeb’09:

LeWeb brings together the best and the brightest people of the web industry from attendees to speakers. It is the #1 European Internet event with 1800 participant from 30 countries and takes place in Paris on Dec 9-10 2009. More info on http://www.leweb.net

Special: Use promo code DOODLE to get 10% discount on http://www.leweb.net/register.

Doodle has become so much a part of everyday business life for some organizations and businesses that the name is being used like a verb… just ask Anthony DiSabatino.

“A college friend who is into all the latest tools and technologies recommended I check out Doodle a few years ago and it was clear right way that it would save us a lot of time. The online scheduling tool is great and very easy to use—even for ‘technophobes.’ From the moment we began scheduling meetings with Doodle it caught on like wildfire in our organization at both our Delaware and Pennsylvania locations. You know it’s a good product when it becomes a verb. My colleagues and I say, ‘hey, can you Doodle to arrange a time to meet, or just Doodle me and we’ll set something up.’”

– Andrew DiSabatino III, estimator, EDiS Company

Folks like Erin Seay can’t imagine scheduling any other way…

“I relied solely upon Doodle to schedule weekly committee meetings throughout the four months it took for us to complete a part of our curriculum revision—I couldn’t have done it any other way. The tool is very easy to use; it was great for me, as the administrator, to be able to actually ‘see’ in a visual representation participants’ availabilities and who was confirmed for each meeting. Many of our faculty members were also impressed with how effortlessly we were getting the meetings scheduled—so much so that several now use Doodle for every day personal scheduling.”

Doodle enabled Ms. Seay to close the gap between everyone’s calendars and cut what would have otherwise been a laborious and time-consuming weekly scheduling process down from hours to minutes.

– Erin Seay, curriculum manager, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

All Doodle users can now effortlessly include attachments within their meeting requests and polls – whether a meeting agenda, invitation, picture or video – thanks to the integrated new feature from the collaboration service drop.io. drop.io and Doodle have a common philosophy: collaboration with an online tool should be dead simple and possible without registration.

After a month-long test phase we can also release the integration of Google Maps. This free feature gives meeting organizers the ability to select a location for a meeting and let it display using Google Maps.

And finally, here’s some news for our enterprise Branded Doodle clients: you can now fully customize your Branded Doodle environment for internal and external use. The theming editor is only available for Branded Doodle and Premium Doodle paying customers, however, the unique URL, access control, and safety features will remain unchanged for paying Branded Doodle customers. Get the full Branded Doodle now!

You might already have recognized that Doodle has a new main page. With that brush-up, we further focus on the scheduling aspect of Doodle which made it possible to rearrange and declutter the page and make it more user-friendly. What is important: all Doodle features are still there! And speaking of features: we put together an overview of all the funtionality available in the free Doodle service. If you’re not yet familiar with all the different possibilities, you’ll see that Doodle is very flexible and can be tailored to your sepcific needs – always easily and quickly, of course!