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Propose a new meeting time in Calendar

Need to change a meeting you can’t attend? Quickly propose a new time in Google Calendar If someone has organized a meeting for a time and date that doesn’t suit, you can propose a new meeting time as soon as the invite arrives in your inbox. This Google Calendar feature is a huge timesaver and allows you to get things arranged quickly and easily and improve productivity. Follow these steps: In Calendar > click the event you’d like to rearrange Click the arrow in the right-hand side > ⤊ You’ll now see the option ‘Propose a new time’ To rearrange your meeting, a proposal will open on the left-hand side so you can go ahead and reschedule the meeting for a time more suitable.
Create a poll in Google Hangouts Chat

Turn your workplace into a more productive space with simple polling for teams using Meet and Google Hangouts Polls are great because they allow people to respond with minimal effort, making engagement more likely. So whether you’re wanting feedback on a product or service, collecting market research or just need to find out what cuisine your colleagues fancy, Polly will work a treat. Here’s how to set Polly up in your group Chats: To start using polls in your chats you need to mention @Polly. The Polly bot will pop up and ask you to add Polly to the room. Or, you can click Invite People in an existing room. Just search for Polly in the list of people, and click Invite. Once you’ve added Polly to the room, you should get this following Welcome message that indicates the Polly invitation was successful. Do note that if you want to use Polly in any room, you will first have to invite Polly to every room as needed before being able to create polls in that room. To start a poll in Hangouts, type something like the following into the chat: @Polly "Your poll in quotes" "voting option 1" "voting option 2" Press enter and Polly will do the rest.
Bookmark your besties in Meet

Bookmark your besties, memorize your meets, hotlink your hangouts Google Meet is great, it lets you interact with teammates and customers, share video, presentations and host meetings all over the world, helping you to stay connected. If you use Meet every day, you’ll find that you have regular Meets with colleagues or clients and this quick tip will help you stay connected even faster by bookmarking your besties. Simply create a folder and add it to your bookmarks bar, that way when you need to attend a meeting, just tell them to jump in your meet without having to send an individual video call each time.

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