Category Archives: MeetingKing Features

Debbie Leven on meetings and agendas, in 140 characters

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This Tweet by Debbie Leven from PRCoach Blog caught our eye, just because it sums up so many meeting issues in less than 140 characters, which is no mean feat. When you go to a meeting there HAS to be an agenda. Agendas are the focal point of the meeting. If the meeting has no agenda, then what you have is a set of loosely connected discussions, a stream-of-consciousness style of debate. – “Have you seen that latest feature? It looks like Apple designed it!” – “Apple? Really? Because I heard that their business model is based on advertising. Perhaps … Continue reading →

Follow-up meetings are important

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I can hear you groaning all ready. ‘What’, you say, ‘it’s not bad enough I have one meeting, I have to set up the next meeting straight away?’ The answer is ‘Yes’. It’s quite simple, really. Meetings are NOT there to slow you down, or to make the person who called the meeting feel warm and fuzzy inside. Meetings are there to help you make decisions about your business – a new feature, a bold marketing campaign, even a new employee. Decisions usually create tasks (I mean, SOMEONE has to make sure to invite that promising young developer back, right?), … Continue reading →

New Features: Lock Meeting for Editing and Manage Contacts

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We added some exciting new features to MeetingKing to help you have more efficient meetings and make sure tasks get completed: Ability to lock a meeting for editing (also great for archiving) Manage all your contacts in new contact page Lock a Meeting for Editing The organizer of a meeting can now lock a meeting for editing. This means meeting collaborators cannot add, change or delete topics, notes or tasks in the agenda or minutes. Meeting participants can, however, still mark a task as complete, add comments and even add private notes. The meeting organizer can always make edits and … Continue reading →

Carrying out Job Interviews and How MeetingKing Can Help

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Carrying out job interviews can be a challenge. It can be hard to make sure that you ask each candidate the same questions, while at the same making sure the conversation has a natural flow and feel. Hiring people is a costly exercise, and it is something that you don’t want to get wrong. Hiring the wrong person at the least means going through the process of hiring and training all over again, in addition to possible costs of firing an employee. This is expensive, and should be avoided at all costs. Good hiring requires  structure, consistency and planning, as … Continue reading →

Importance of Parking Lot for Meetings

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Meetings can often go off the agenda. Sometimes this is because a person wants to air their point of view with a forum. Other times it may be because an attendee has not understood the purpose of the meeting, and believes that their point is relevant. In other situations, going off subject may be caused by the meeting coordinator not keeping a tight rein on the meeting, and allowing people to get off the subject matter at hand. Sometimes ideas that are raised during the course of a discussion are interesting and worthwhile to follow up, but are just not … Continue reading →

New feature: Easily find tasks related to current topic

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Another new feature to help you have a total overview. Most meetings cover different topics and it is always hard to get a quick overview of what is going on with each topic. Not anymore. You can easily find any task related to the topic you are discussing without leaving your meeting space. Right next to the agenda and note taking area is a search box for related tasks. You can search by project, department, customer (based on tags) or by task owner. It will show all tasks you have to do or tasks others have to do for you. … Continue reading →

New features – Meeting Templates and Custom Logo

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You asked, we listened. We have been working hard on some much requested features: Templates Customizable logo Meeting Templates It has never been easier to prepare your meeting. When preparing the agenda (or starting the meeting…..), just click “Load template” and select one of the standard MeetingKing templates or one you created yourself. You can even load multiple templates. Once a template is loaded, all items are just regular topics and you can modify the agenda as you see fit; you can delete topics, you can move them to a different location and you can add additional topics. Saving templates … Continue reading →

New Features – Daily update, review recipients of minutes and agenda and more

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First of all I would like to thank you for using MeetingKing and for the great feedback you have been sending. You have given us some really good ideas and helped us prioritizing new features and enhancements. Enhancements to MeetingKing Daily meeting and task update email No need to log into MeetingKing in the morning to see what meetings are coming up and what tasks need to be completed. If there are any meetings in the next few days or any tasks (over)due, you will receive an email with a summary of these meetings and tasks.   To make it … Continue reading →

Schedule meetings and invite participants directly from Outlook, Google Calendar and iCal

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You can now create a meeting in MeetingKing using Outlook, Google Calendar or iCal. Just create a new meeting request in your preferred calendar application, add schedule@meetingking.com to the list of invitees and send the meeting request.   MeetingKing will create a new meeting space for you and add all invitees, the date, time and location. Within a minute the meeting will appear in the dashboards of all participants and the organizer will receive an email with a link to that meeting space.   Creating a new meeting in MeetingKing with your preferred calendar application has the following advantages: -You … Continue reading →

Make private notes right in your agenda and minutes

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MeetingKing has a cool new feature: create private notes, decisions and tasks right in your agenda or meeting minutes.   In preparation of a meeting you may want to make some notes, add a link to an article, write down a list of arguments that you want to use during the discussion or include a graph of photo you want to show. Some of these you share with the team before the meeting, but other items you may want to keep for yourself so you can bring them up during the meeting. Now you can do both right in the … Continue reading →