We went with
www.volunteerspot.com, but it doesn't play well under IE 8.0. When I chose to Start New Actitivy, I could see the menu to add a new one for a nanosecond, but it was replaced with a black screen. Their help function doesn't mention this, but I found a support blog post that suggested refreshing the screen (nope, didn't work) or using Firefox. I love it when vendors' solutions involve using another tool rather than their fixing the problem in their programming.
It works on my laptop, so I'll probably just use that to do the setup. Kind of silly since it's a web-based system - the computer and browser should not matter if it was developed properly. I'm a little worried about the users being able to sign up - what if the browser issues get in their way? Eeek.
Lots of pretty graphics plus tons of active scripts that validate constantly, slowing down the system. I typed in too many characters for a task title and the system paused so it could display a message saying the title was more than 40 characters, which is the limit. Gee, how about putting that on the pretty blue screen or waiting until I try to save rather than holding up the entry when I press TAB?
Great idea, poor human interface programming, but it does work pretty well so far. I have to do a lot of data entry to get the weekend schedule and all its tasks set up.
One feature that would be nice to have is a block scheduling tool, so you could enter "Runners needed" and give the time frame (8am - 4pm) to be broken up into 1-hour shifts. Instead, you have to create separate tasks for each time slot, ie. "Runners 8-9am, Runners 9-10am, Runners 10-11am, etc."