For the last few months, we’ve been adding many features to Presdo that users have been asking for.  This week, we’re happy to announce the addition of a very useful enhancement that many have suggested—the ability to add web links inside the WHAT and messages of Presdo events.  Take a look!

Just paste in URLs from elsewhere and share other web pages with your guests!  It works as you’d expect.  ‘Nuff said.

Here’s a tip for making life easier with Presdo.  Have you ever wanted to convert an email thread to an event invite and include all your friends from the email?  We’ve made it easier to do it, with the new “Add guests” user interface in Presdo.

When creating the event, just pop open the “Add guests” box and add as many names and email addresses into the box as you want.  You can even copy and paste the entire block of email addresses from an email message–names and all–into the box.

Presdo will take care of matching the names to email addresses, no problem.  Can it get any easier?  Check it out!

This week, we are announcing a really great enhancement to Presdo.  It’s now possible to create events within Presdo without a time, at least not at first.  Why is this good, especially when Presdo is all about making time with others?

That’s because some of you told us that you’d like to keep events around to remind yourself to do them later… but that you did not know exactly when later.  We couldn’t agree more with being able to do this.  And we took it even farther.

For example, it’s sometimes better to ask your guests “when” than to pick the time yourself, even though Presdo gives you a lot of flexibility in suggesting multiple times to guests.  If you’re open to meeting someone and it doesn’t matter when, or you know the other parties are busier than you, these are perfect occasions to use the un-timed event feature.  And of course, if you want to keep an un-timed event around for yourself to organize later, that’s fine.  Combined with Presdo’s new status enhancements, you’ll know which events will still need attention.

Here’s how it works.  When you create an event, just make sure the “decide later, ask guests first” option is selected in the WHEN section:

Presdo selects this option automatically if you don’t enter any time information when creating the event.

When your guests receive their invites, they answer “yes” or “no” as before and can optionally enter a time:

They can give a specific date and time, but of course, they could also offer choices like “Thursday or Friday night”.  Those suggestions come back to you, and like before, you decide the final time based on their suggestions.

The un-timed event is a perfect example of “less is more”.  By taking away the need to give a time in advance, it actually makes the product even better.  We think it’s a great enhancement, and we hope you think so too!

–Eric

Presdo will be participating in the Office 2.0 Conference this week in San Francisco.  We are not only one of the companies proudly sponsoring the conference, but we were also invited to provide a way for conference participants to schedule private meetings quickly and easily.  We are very excited to showcase Presdo’s technology there.

Several years ago, the phrase “Office 2.0″ was termed by Ismael Ghalimi, Office 2.0 Conference’s organizer.  It’s a great concept whose time is certainly coming.  Office 2.0 encompasses the spirit of simple, web-based, productivity applications that enable people to be more productive than ever before.  Already, companies like Google, Zoho and Salesforce.com are reinventing conventional productivity software into novel forms designed for the Internet age, and even new applications which are only possible because of the Internet as an underlying platform are starting to appear.

At Presdo, we resonate with many of these ideas, and we are excited to support Office 2.0.  If you’ve successfully planned a team lunch using Presdo, why not try using Presdo to schedule that next board meeting?  Why not?

And if you happen to be coming to the Office 2.0 Conference, please find and come talk to us.  Schedule a time using some novel Presdo functionality we are providing exclusively at the conference!

Update: What a success.  We were camped out at Office 2.0 in the large room where many of the Presdo-scheduled meetings took place.  It was heartening to see so many people meeting up there, knowing that we contributed in a small way to enable these meetings to happen hassle-free.

With more than 400 attendees at this conference, people used Presdo to schedule almost 70 one-on-one meetings.  Some of the more well-known companies such as Google had more meetings than others, and we turned on some new features that will be coming to the core product soon!