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How to use Zoodango for Mother's Day.

Posted by James Sun on Sun, May 11, 2008, at 07:13 AM (0 comments)

Now that I'm married and have two little kids, I have to congratulate and celebrate 4 mothers for Mother's Day: my wife of course, my mother, my mother-in-law, and my grandmother. Wow! Then, I also have to invite all the spouses, fathers, siblings, etc. So, the big question is where should we go eat? The date is obvious....it's a single Mother's Day, but the venue is not so obvious.

So, here comes Zoodango to the rescue. It's time to send a Smart Invite and have every member of the family vote on where they all want to eat. Since it's Mother's Day, I will opt to increase the invitee status of all the mothers to "important" and decrease the invitee status of everyone else to "good to have". This isn't to say that everyone is not important, it's just that I want the mothers' votes to have more weight in terms of where we should go eat.

So now I pick out 3 restaurants after Zoodango calculates and suggests a few good choices based on everyone's "I likes" and then I send out a smart invite and ask each person to vote. Each person votes, and the overall score shows where the majority wants to eat. Since I'm the organizer, I finalize the most popular option, and then a RSVP link gets sent out and everyone RSVP's. Now, no one can complain about the venue! Thanks Zoodango!

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