Need a Limited # of Volunteers for Time Slots? -Check out Doodle.com

Got this email from a very awesome helpful parent:

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Someone asked about signing up for stuff online and I wanted to let you know about something I've used in the past that works great for organizing volunteers.  There is a website called www.doodle.com that helps in two ways and is totally free:

1. If you need to check availability for a meeting, let's say, you can throw out 3-4 (or 50) possibilities for date and time then e-mail a link to the folks who need to attend.  They simply check the possibilities they could attend and then you will see which of those choices will get the best attendance and choose that date and time for your meeting.
2. THIS IS THE ONE THAT WORKS FOR SCHEDULING TIME SLOTS  Let's say you need volunteers to chaperone 5 nights of band camp (or sell t-shits during an all day event, etc.) but you only need two people per time slot, here's how (each number is a new screen):
1.  Go to www.doodle.com and click on "schedule an event"
2. Fill in the title name and description, etc. (click next)
3. Click on each of the dates you need to cover (click next)
4. Write down the time slots for each date (or none if it's all day) (click next)
5. Under settings select "Limit the number of participants per option" and put in how many you need for each time slot (click next)
6. Under "You send the invitation" click "finish" and it will generate a link you can copy and paste into any email you want.

Just because it's easy, I set up an example you can check out here http://www.doodle.com/7rau55kfvqphf3c7 (that's the participant link) If you type in your name and start checking time slots like you want to volunteer, you will notice you can't click any that already has two people because I limited it to two in step 5 above.

Hope that helps!  It has saved me a number of times.