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Unit 7: Cloud Services Uses

7.2.5 Acuity Scheduling Notes

One of the major factors in client management is the setting up of meetings, whenever required.
Now you don’t have to spend a lot of time managing this as an online scheduling system, Acuity
Scheduling can make your work easier.
Acuity Scheduling is online appointment scheduling software. This plugin allows users with
paid accounts on Acuity Scheduling to embed scheduling directly into their site. Use the
[scheduling] short tag on any page with the options described in the documentation to embed
your scheduling site.

With Acuity Scheduling you can create the types of appointments offered, build custom forms,
and set your time zone. You can now save time by offering appointment booking online. With
Acuity Scheduling you can focus on growing your business and have clients schedule their own
appointments, complete custom intake forms and pay in advance, online 24/7.

7.2.6 AppointmentQuest

Like Acuity Scheduling, AppointmentQuest (www appointmentquest.com) is designed to solve
the scheduling problems of busy professionals.
Online Appointment Scheduler, AppointmentQuest is an online scheduling software for online
reservations, appointments, and event registrations. Since 2001, AppointmentQuest has made it
easy to manage your appointment scheduling online. AppointmentQuest empowers its customers
to accept, make and manage appointment reservations online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
365 days a year.

7.3 Exploring Online Planning and Task Management

Planning and task management applications let you manage everything from simple to-do lists
to complex group tasks, all over the Internet. You can additionally collaborate with other users
to accomplish your tasks.

7.3.1 iPrioritize

iPrioritize is an iPad and iPhone application which delivers a simple but elegant productivity
tool to help busy business-people to spend their time more efficiently. It enables you to create
goals and steps within them, then by answering some quick and simple questions you can
rapidly and automatically prioritise items. iPrioritize generates a crystal clear traffic-light system
to display the order of steps, so that you know what to do next. iPrioritize is not helps accomplish
tasks on an urgency basis but is also affordable.
With this you can make a list to organize your tasks. Drag tasks up and down as your priorities
change. Mark items complete when you finish. You can also access your lists anytime, anyplace,
anywhere. It is perfect for personal or business be it at home to organize your work, homework,
chores, or shopping lists or at work where you can use it to assign and organize your employees
tasks more efficiently.

7.3.2 Bla-Bla List

Bla-Bla List (www.blablalist.com) is another simple to-do list manager. Bla-Bla list makes it
easy to make a list of things to think about later when you’re not so busy, to share your lists with
others even if they don’t have an account, to publish your lists with RSS so that others get instant

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