We use Google Calendar for booking our X-ray facility.
Klaus
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Reader in Structural Biology
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On 16 Feb 2011, at 12:25, Darren Hart wrote:
Hello,
Since we are now part of the "Facebook Generation" (or at least 10%
of the planet is), it seems there must be a better way of
distributing time on our various Aktas to an institute of
scientists than our current system which involves a race for the
paper booking sheet every Thursday morning. Inevitably people book
in a speculative manner and time slots are not always used due to
problems in preparative steps etc. Bits of paper in different
buildings make it difficult to see who booked what and when.
Has anyone successfully implemented an electronic system, perhaps
shared through the "cloud", that allows real time booking in a
manner that can be revised easily and has worked well? An
electronic calendar (Google..) would partially address this, but it
seems some sort of social networking site/tool might be better for
negotiating instrument time, swapping timeslots, reallocating
unused time if the sample prep fails.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If governments can be
toppled through Facebook, I'm sure we can book our Aktas in a
better way!
Darren
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High Throughput Protein Lab
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
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