Appointment Slots: New GMail feature that could allow clients to sign up for time slots

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on June 14, 2011 at 3:27pm

The only question I have with that is confidentiality.  The other options similar I've seen also have the same issue.

 

If you are publishing your calendar slots publicly, it's possible that people will enter their names to book an appointment slot, and that wouldn't be a good thing.

 

If that is resolved, it could be awesome.

 

 

Where this might be more useful is a few practitioners sharing an office together.  

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Hazlerig- www.HypnosisAustin.com on June 15, 2011 at 6:07am

I haven't used Google Calendar, but looking at it, there appears to be an option to share only busy/available times with the public. So if I'm reading that right, you should be able to set it up so that a client can schedule an appointment without everyone else being able to see who it is--but like I said, I haven't used it. I'm just in the investigating stage.

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Permalink Reply by Melina Johnson on June 15, 2011 at 9:12am

I host my sites with 1and1.com... they are cheap and they provide several tools (including appointment forms) for free. 

 

Hope it helps :)

Melina

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Permalink Reply by Joe Homs on June 15, 2011 at 4:35pm

I currently use google apps for your domain, so adding in appointment scheduling would be great for me.  I haven't implemented this yet, but I wanted to let people know in case it was perfect for them as is.

 

For my use, it's not quite where I want it to be yet either, but it's something to keep track of and possibly replace what I use now in the future.

 

As for privacy, you can set it so that people only see busy/available times and you and only the other person can see full details of just that appointment.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on June 15, 2011 at 5:51pm

thanks for clarifying that Joe-

 

I'm going to keep my eye on this as well.

 

-Scott

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Permalink Reply by Joe Homs on June 19, 2011 at 2:13pm

A friend of mine pointed me to a different resource that looks a lot more full featured and better now.

 

http://www.tungle.me/

 

I haven't implemented this one either, but I'm going to play with it and see how it fits into my workflow.

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