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Monday, September 22, 2008

Using Jooners

Last week I announced the I was looking for both bloggers and readers to join and review Jooners. Responses have been coming in. For the people who are willing to review Jooners, I decided to coordinate the reviews the same way I would host any other event using Jooners. I sent each of the interested people an invite to sign up for a Jooners event list. Participants were able to sign themselves up for a review slot. It went very smoothly.

I am responsible for organizing who brings snacks to my next moms group meeting. I used a Jooners snack sign up sheet to automate that. It was incredibly easy. My moms group uses a Yahoo groups list-serve. I uploaded the yahoo group to my Jooners address book, and in less than a minute it separated the group into individual addresses. Why is that important? I'll get to that in one moment. I used Event Planner to create my snack list. Originally I chose the pre-made Snack List without realizing that it was designed to enable people to take turns bringing snacks over a period of time. It would be perfect for parents taking turns bringing refreshments to little league games, for example. I needed several people to bring different snacks to a single meeting. I created a new list and entered the items I was requesting and the date for each item. I selected a single address from my Jooners address book...my moms group Yahoo group. Jooners sent the invitation to each person in the group individually. That means that each person only received an email reminder for the items that she signed up to bring. How cool is that?

I am not the only one who found it easy. I have heard positive reports from several of my readers. You do not need to sign up for a Jooners account to sign up on a list. If you are invited to participate in a list, you receive an email requesting that you click on a link for the sign-up sheet. You then type your name next to the item you are bringing. You do not need to sign up for an account to do it.

While many people are willing to create accounts of their own, they tend to be reluctant to use a system that requires others to create accounts. It's yet another login name and password to remember. However, that is not the case here. Once friends found out about that, they were pretty excited. In fact I heard from a few people that they were so impressed that they were going to go ahead and open a Jooners account after all to plan upcoming events. Did I mention again that this is a free service?

I'm still looking for reviewers and readers. Again, I will be raffling off prizes for people who participate. Please leave me a comment if you're interested.

posted by Alex Elliot @ 8:42 PM 1 comments

1 Comments:

At October 5, 2008 9:55 AM, Danielle said…

Thanks for writing about Jooners. I recently discovered I'm the class mom (I volunteered a while ago and only found out now that they had picked me!) so this will come in handy for organizing activities and volunteer stuff.

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