Tungle, the meeting coordination web service we covered in February, has made it easier to coordinate meetings with your more mobile colleagues. The newly announced BlackBerry optimized mobile website features the Tungle web service, specially formatted for the BlackBerry’s screen. After the meeting has been scheduled and finalized, the BlackBerry userwill recieve a specialized invite for use on their BlackBerry Calendar.
The BlackBerry optimized website is joined by an Outlook plug-in in an effort by Tungle to make usage as easy as possible. Users can now schedule meetings with Tungle either through Tungle’s website in a conventional browser, use the Outlook plug-in, or using the BlackBerry site.
Scheduling meetings is a necessary chore we face in business. Managing multiple person’s calendars and finding a good time to meet involves many back and forth emails. This is especially true when the persons you’re trying to meet with are on another electronic calendaring system.
To tackle this problem, I looked at Tungle last week. Now let’s look at a similar scheduling application: TimeBridge.
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Arranging meetings with co-workers and team mates can often be a very tedious task. The main issue with meeting scheduling the is time wasted trying to arrange meeting times. Microsoft Exchange tools help solve this inside the enterprise, but outside your own company efficiently scheduling meetings becomes difficult if not impossible. Another issue with scheduling meetings is having to work with timezones.
In conclusion, time is wasted arranging meetings because they involve multiple email transactions and/or phone calls.
A newcomer to the meeting coordinating scene, Tungle is an add-on application that tries to take some of the frustration out of arranging meetings.
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