Surveys back up ... Status field is beginning to be used

We have been continuing to make small but significant update to the usability of our site. Three of these recent improvements include:

Surveys are Back! some of our suers wondered where surveys went on www.meetingstarter.com. You can still access them at www.meetingstarter.com/surveys but place to see everything you have been working on is www.gracefultools.com. This will have links for all our meetingstarter, gracefulsurveys and some of our exciting upcoming tools.

Appointments improvements
In our next update (later today) we will add two important features to appointments.
We will begin using the Signup Deadline (by default it is the beginning of your appointment) to hide and disable the availability of an appointment. I know for me this has been annoying to see all the old appointments listed. I also would rather set up a 24 hour signup deadline so I know if nobody has signed up I don't have to rush out and be at the designated location. In order to facilitate this we have begun to keep track of your timezone. We will update the timezone feature more in the near future but currently here is how it works. When you edit a meeting the timezone that you are currently in is recorded. If someone is signing up for an appointment and is in a different timezone than you there is a short note indicated what timezone the appointment times are listed for. This is an easy solution that doesn't add unnecessary text for most users but quickly allows people to clarify when they mean the appointment to take place. You could also use the note field on an added appointment to change this on an appointment by appointment basis.

The Status of Status
You might have wondered if you have been using events, appointments or surveys what the status is of the status column which up until a few days ago remained in a perpetual state of being unpublished. We have changed this. Now you can change the status from published to unpublished.

Unpublished events, appointments, meeting and surveys (as well as archived and deleted ones) will no longer be listed on the the listing pages. In order to facilitate this transition and prevent users events from disappearing without notice we will first update all of your events, appointments, meetings and surveys that are currently unpublished to published (this will not change any of the current functionality since effectively they have been published). We will not do this for any events, surveys, appointments which have their default name.

So that is the status on status....

We in the final stages of hiring a director of operations and communications which is both very exciting and will probably improve our communication to you substantially in the near future.

with joy,
Jon Paris - graceful tools.