7 Essential Tips to Improve Listening Skills in Meetings
In today’s fast-paced work environment, effective meetings are crucial for communication, collaboration, and decision-making among colleagues. Active listening plays a pivotal role in these meetings, allowing you to better understand your colleagues’...Effective Listening: The Key to Successful Meetings
Effective communication is vital in any workplace, and meetings play a crucial role in ensuring that communication is clear, concise, and productive. However, effective communication is not just about speaking your mind; it is also about listening to others. Mastering...Meeting Cost Reduction: Practical Strategies and Best Practices
Meetings can be incredibly valuable for collaboration, and decision-making, but they can also be a major drain on resources if not managed efficiently. That’s why meeting cost reduction is so important. In fact, according to a study by Harvard Business Review,...The Ultimate Checklist to Effective One-on-one Meetings
One-on-one meetings are an integral part of any successful manager-employee relationship. Effective one-on-one meetings help build trust, increase productivity, and align personal and organizational goals. In this blog post, we will share with you a comprehensive...The Power of One-on-one Meetings: Discover the Top Benefits
Would you like to enhance communication with your team and drive better results? Then you should look into the benefits of one-on-one meetings. One-on-ones offer a valuable opportunity for managers and employees to connect and discuss important topics, ranging from...The Key Purpose and Importance of One-on-one Meetings
As a business owner or manager, you want to ensure that your team is engaged, productive, and working towards a common goal. Regular one-on-one meetings can be the key to achieving this. In fact, businesses that prioritize one-on-ones have reported higher levels of...Maintenance announcement: MeetingKing will be briefly off-line Saturday April 1 at 22:00 UTC
The MeetingKing application will be off-line for approximately 1 hour starting Saturday April 1 at 22:00 UTC. During this time we will upgrade our back-end to the latest version of our platform to improve performance, security and prepare us for future enhancements....The Importance of Holding Meetings – 9 Benefits to Your Team
Having team meetings is a part of any business or organization. While some of these meetings, like the ones with no agenda or no action items, might seem less fruitful, a well-executed meeting is sure to bring multiple benefits to everyone involved. From gathering...7 Quick and Effective Steps for Tracking Action Items
In order to reach business or organizational goals, we need to take action. Knowing what tasks need to be completed to reach the finish line and how to track these action items effectively, might determine your future success. Without further ado, let’s dive into the...5 Proven Strategies for Writing and Managing Action Items
Meeting action items (or tasks) are the driving force of any business, organization, institution, or club. They help you reach your goals. For this reason, writing and managing action items properly is essential. We created a list of 5 best practices and tips to make...Maximizing Productivity: The Importance of Meeting Action Items
Time is the most valuable resource for any business or organization, which is why it’s essential that each meeting you attend is productive and worthwhile. A well-organized meeting will start with a carefully considered agenda and end with a set of meeting...The Importance of Meeting Minutes – 5 Key Benefits
Meetings are a great way to bring teams together. They provide an excellent opportunity to share ideas, collaborate, brainstorm, strategize, get everyone on the same page, and make decisions. Meeting minutes can ensure that all the discussions and decisions made...Ad Hoc Meetings – Everything You Need to Know
Meetings are an essential part of the work environment. We regularly attend different types of meetings, such as brainstorming, decision-making, or problem-solving. In this article, we would like to focus on ad hoc meetings: what they are, when to hold them, if they...7 Tips for Productive Ad Hoc Meetings
Ad hoc or impromptu meetings, as the name suggests, happen outside your recurring meetings. As a result, they might be disruptive to your regular workflow and create some frustration among your colleagues. For this reason, it is important to learn how to hold...Start 2023 with more effective meetings!
Happy New Year! Start this year by improving your office productivity. Up to 50% of meeting time is wasted, because participants are not prepared for a meeting and there is no follow-up. Do you want to continue to waste time with unprepared meeting participants? Do...Effective Meeting Agenda – 11 Things to Consider
Having a meeting agenda is one of the most powerful tools for a successful meeting. A structured agenda provides guidance for you and your team to come prepared to get down to business! Everyone will be motivated to get the most out of the meeting which in return,...5 Reasons Why a Meeting Agenda Is Important
When we organize or attend meetings, we expect them to be well thought out, efficient, and bring value to everyone involved. We want meetings to be worth our valuable time. Preparing a meeting agenda ahead of time and sharing it with other participants can help to...Is This Meeting Necessary? Meeting Planning Checklist Part 2
Business without meetings is like coffee without cream. It’s unimaginable! Nonetheless, not every meeting is necessary and having the right ingredients when preparing for it, will bring the desired result. Let’s take a closer look at the fundamental points to be...Is This Meeting Necessary? Meeting Planning Checklist Part 1
Meetings are an essential part of any working environment, be it a big corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a church community. Sometimes, however, it might feel like you have too many meetings and not enough time to fulfill your responsibilities. For this...9 Tested Tips for Effective Meeting Minutes
Every meeting should have a purpose. Every meeting should aim to be a productive and valuable use of your time. Knowing how to effectively write meeting minutes will make sure that everyone feels that the meeting was time well spent. In this article, we will discuss...New: Download Meeting Minutes for Multiple Meetings at Once
We have added some new powerful functionality to MeetingKing, you can now download the meeting minutes for multiple meetings at once. You can select to download all your meeting minutes or the meeting minutes of a certain selection of meetings. You can create the...Manage MeetingKing via your Email
Did you know you can manage MeetingKing with your email? You can create tasks via email, mark tasks complete from your email, provide comments via email and create new topics via email. Most of us spend a lot of time in our email application, and often an email...Maintenance announcement: MeetingKing will be briefly off-line Sunday June 19 at 0:00 UTC
The MeetingKing application will be off-line for approximately 20 to 30 minutes starting Sunday morning June 19 at midnight UTC. During this time Linode, our hosting provider, will move our application to newer, faster servers. You can convert UTC time to your time...The science of better meetings
Are you wasting too much time in too many meetings? You are not alone, 47% of office workers cite too many meetings as the main productivity problem at work. The last 2 years we have been forced to change the way we work and face-to-face meetings suddenly became...New: Sign in with your Microsoft ID
We are proud that we have partnered with Microsoft. You can now use your Microsoft ID to log in into your MeetingKing account. This could be your Outlook.com account, your Hotmail.com account or any email address that is associated with a Microsoft Account. No need to...Schedule a Meeting in Different Time Zones
More and more companies today work with teams that span different time zones. Here at MeetingKing our team even spans several continents, and communication tools like Zoom, Webex, Google Meet or Skype make that really easy. The problems arise, of course, not from the...Meeting Minute Examples and How to Write Your Own
What are meeting minutes for? Minutes, also known as minutes of meeting (MoM), are the official written records of the meetings held by your group or organization. The term minutes does not at all refer to the time; the term comes from the Latin phrase minuta...Why use a meeting minutes app to document your meetings?
When it comes to a meeting, the meeting minutes are one of the most important aspects. Meeting minutes are transcripts of topics and action items discussed during a meeting. In most organizations, it is already customary to take meeting minutes – they connect you with...How to easily find your tasks (and those of others)
One of the biggest problems with tasks management tools is that there are too many tasks and the lists become too long. You are overwhelmed and after a while stop using that task manager. MeetingKing makes managing your tasks easy, you can organize your tasks by...#1 resolution for 2022 – No more bad meetings!
Happy New Year! The title of this post states that improving meetings is the number one resolution for 2022. OK, I made that up, but it should be! Up to 50% of meeting time is wasted, because participants are not prepared for a meeting and there is no follow-up. Do...Software update
Today we will be doing a silent update of our entire server backend software to take advantage of the latest speed improvements and implement the latest security enhancements. We thoroughly tested all functionality to make sure that everything works as usual, but if...New: lock and archive your meetings
One of the most requested features is the ability to lock a meeting for editing and now you can! MeetingKing is a fantastic tool to work together on the agenda and the minutes of your meetings, but sometimes you may want to limit the ability to update or modify the...MeetingKing tip: Restore deleted items
Did you accidentally delete a meeting, a topic or a task? No need to panic. MeetingKing includes an undelete/restore function so you can easily correct your mistake and get the deleted information back. At the top of the page in the main blue navigation bar just click...What can we learn about meetings from the richest man in the world?
I would like to share a Wallstreet Journal article that highlights the management principles Jeff Bezos uses and made him and his company so successful. Some of these valuable principles are related to meetings, which may be useful for you as well. Many meetings are...MeetingKing now also on your mobile!
When we think of a meeting we most likely think of a formal meeting with multiple people around a large table in an office environment (or, during these days of the pandemic, remote with Zoom, Google meetings or similar tool). Examples are a board meeting, management...Maintenance notification: MeetingKing off-line for 2 hours Saturday September 12
The MeetingKing application will be off-line for approximately 2 hours starting September 12 at 5 AM UTC. This maintenance is necessary to upgrade the server infrastructure. You can convert UTC to your time zone by using this link:...How to meet with your team in times of crisis?
Digitalization is the need of the hour. With this current Pandemic everything has changed drastically, starting from a halt on stepping out, offices coming to our homes and social distancing becoming the new normal. The biggest change has been accepting the need for...How to make your on-line meetings more productive
The world is a different place today than it was a few weeks ago. The terrible corona virus is costing lives and affecting our way of life in ways we could have never imagined. Also our professional lives have been dramatically impacted by this virus and many now work...MeetingKing helps Rob to drive productivity and effectiveness
About The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution Care Company (RMBI Care Co.) RMBI Care Co. provides residential care, nursing and dementia support to older Freemasons, their families and people in the wider community. The charity has been caring for older people for...New admin tools for multi user plans
We have added some very useful features for our Multi-User Plan customers. The plan administrator can transfer all meetings and tasks from one member to another. This is especially helpful if someone leaves the company, so the person who takes over can see all history...New: Sharing meeting templates
One of the most popular features in MeetingKing is the ability to create a custom template for your regular meetings. You can create a template for your weekly management team meeting, your monthly board meeting, your safety committee meeting, your PTA meeting etc. Up...Maintenance: MeetingKing will be off line for 2 hours starting July 2 at 1 AM UTC
The MeetingKing application will be off-line for approximately 2 hours starting July 2 at 1 AM UTC. This maintenance is necessary to upgrade the server infrastructure. You can convert UTC to your time zone by using this link:...New: activity tracking for tasks
Task management in MeetingKing just became more powerful, any change that is made to a task will now be recorded and visible in the task activity log. If you, or someone else who is authorized to edit a task, changes the task title, task owner, due date, any tags,...Improved: adding new contacts and importing contacts
We have made it a lot easier to add new contacts in MeetingKing. While adding contacts in the dedicated dialog was quite easy, it was less intuitive to add someone to a meeting or task who was not already in your address book. Now you can add a new contact to a...How to copy tasks to your favorite task manager
MeetingKing makes it easy for you to create a meeting agenda and write meeting minutes. MeetingKing also includes a powerful task manager, since effective meetings usually result in tasks. However, we realize that you may be using another task manager for all your...No phones – One laptop in meetings
What? No phones and only one laptop in a meeting? But I am wasting so much time in these meetings! Let me at least catch up on some email while there. Sounds familiar? The irony is the “solution” for making your meeting time “more productive”, is also the reason why...Important announcement: The MeetingKing application will be off-line for maintenance Saturday Oct 6 between 6 AM and 12 noon UTC.
The last few months the development team has worked hard to upgrade the MeetingKing platform to a new version to improve performance. This is a platform change only, the user interface will remain the same. This Saturday we will switch to this upgraded platform. We...New year, end of summer, the gym and MeetingKing!
Cryptic title! How do these relate? We have been in business for quite a few years and we can now predict a clear increase in new users twice a year: Early January and September. In January we all have our good intentions and turning unproductive meetings into...Manage your MeetingKing tasks in Asana
Asana is a great tool to manage all tasks in your organization, but not very practical to streamline your meetings. MeetingKing is of course the king in helping you have better meetings from agenda to minutes. Effective meetings lead to tasks and while MeetingKing has...Redesign: Your Minutes and Agendas will look better than ever.
Your minutes and agenda documents will look more professional and more beautiful than ever after this latest redesign. No more formatting documents in Word and typing everything out. Just have MeetingKing copy all logistical details from your calendar, load a template...NEW: Export tasks to hundreds of apps with Zapier
Are you using MeetingKing to have productive meetings? Do you use Asana, Trello, Wunderlist, Todoist or any other task application to make sure things get done? Now you can automatically export your meeting tasks to any of those apps using Zapier! Want to export tasks...New: Import Contacts!
Software makes our lives easier and more efficient and MeetingKing certainly does that. However getting all your contacts set up in MeetingKing was not very efficient yet, and we have fixed that. Now you can import your contacts from Gmail, Outlook, and many other...How to easily find your tasks (and those of others)
So you had a few meetings and created a bunch of tasks, now you just want to make sure that you actually complete them. MeetingKing makes it easy to find all your tasks and those of others. There are a few ways to filter for your tasks: Click your name under a task...NEW: Integrate with your favorite task management tool – Beta testers wanted
Great news,we are finalizing the much requested functionality to integrate MeetingKing with your favorite task management tool. At this moment this will be available for a limited group of users who want to beta test this. At the end of this post you can see how to...Your head is for having ideas, not for holding them.
Many articles have been written about task management, and recently I came across the article “A bigger To-Do About Everything” in the Wall Street Journal, which I think might be helpful for you. The key takeaways from this article about effective task management are:...Writing meeting minutes has never been easier – Try the new interface.
We all know meetings without minutes are useless, but the task of writing minutes is a chore that very few people enjoy – that is until now. The new note taking in MeetingKing makes it easier than ever. MeetingKing already offered a unique way of making notes...W.W.D.W.B.W. – How to run an effective meeting.
W.W.D.W.B.W. – a new abbreviation I just learned. I had not heard of it before, but it covers exactly what we have been propagating for years. Recently there was a great article in the New York Times on how to run an effective meeting....Who will take the meeting notes?
Meetings in general are not very popular, but being responsible for the meeting minutes is even worse. Because taking notes and working out the meeting minutes is such an unpopular activity it is often ignored. And not having meeting minutes is exactly one of the...One more secret to better meetings – less people
Many of us remain frustrated by the time we waste in meetings. In an article a few years back we published some interesting statistics on the time and money wasted in meetings. Unfortunately for most organizations this has not improved. Often the problem is limited...Linda saves at least 8 to 10 hours of work per month and accomplishes more thanks to MeetingKing.
About Colourtech Colourtech is a South African printing and publishing company mainly focused on publications for education (http://www.colourtech.co.za/). They are a major player in Southern Africa and employ around 150 people. The organization has been using...Manage tasks directly from your email
Many task management tools try to replace email. While that in itself is a great goal, the reality is that many people assign and manage their tasks through email. After trying a new task management tool, most slide back in the old habit of sending emails back and...The secret to enjoying a relaxed evening
In this fast paced world everyone is really busy. The big question is, are you busy with the right things? At the end of your day, did you actually accomplish something? The easiest way to be more productive and focus on meaningful work is to have a check or task...Back to school, back to work – start with productive meetings
The end of summer is the beginning of meeting season again. This can be painful, but it does not have to be that way. With the new note taking, MeetingKing can help you create your meeting agenda and write minutes faster than ever before. Watch the video and try it...New: Restore / Undelete
Have you ever deleted anything accidentally? From now on that will not be a problem in MeetingKing. MeetingKing now offers a restore / undelete feature Any meeting, topic, subtopic, task, note or decision that you deleted can now be restored. Just click the restore...New: Powerful search and other task management tools
Productive meetings lead to tasks and to help you manage those tasks even more effectively, we have added some very powerful search and filter functionality. You can now filter and search your tasks by: Keyword Task owner Project, department, tag Due date Date...See how Talasi uses MeetingKing to ensure continuity in her meetings
Switching from OneNote and various different task managers to MeetingKing brought continuity to our meetings, saves time and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks. — Talasi Hendel – InfraWare Talasi Hendel is Director of Solutions Realization of...New: the fastest way ever to make meeting notes
Making notes during a meeting and writing your meeting minutes has never been easier and faster. We have a completely NEW note taking page and it is now available in beta. The new note taking page is much faster and more flexible. You can change items at any time, you...How to keep your task list manageable
First of all a healthy and happy 2016 to everyone! A new start, with a clean slate. If your list of tasks has grown over the last year, then now is a good time to clean it up. Here are some tips. The success of task management tools depend on the number of tasks you...Check out our latest iPad app
Still carrying your laptop to meetings? Or worse are you still making notes on a piece of paper? Make your life easy and try the updated MeetingKing iPad app. MeetingKing is the fastest way to make notes, assign tasks and create beautiful minutes. Just write down...iPad App – quick fix for iOS 9
Recently Apple made iOS 9 available on the iPad. While this new OS has many great enhancements, its default settings make it impossible to create an agenda and write notes in the meeting workspace of the MeetingKing iPad app. While we are working on a permanent fix...MeetingKing on iPad, now even more powerful.
Earlier this year we released the MeetingKing iPad app and now an exciting new version with user requested enhancements is available. Just as in the web application you can easily manage all your meetings and tasks on the iPad and, most importantly, it offers a...More powerful follow-up meetings: copy topics
The most loved feature of MeetingKing is now even more powerful: You can now copy topics in follow-up meetings Linking one or more meetings together for task follow-up, makes MeetingKing an extremely powerful management tool. In addition to adding an updated task...New: summary of all meeting decisions
Many of you asked and we listened; you can now see a summary of all your decisions. All decisions are listed on a new decisions page. You can sort your list of decisions by date and by meeting. To find any relevant decision, you can zoom in by project, department, tag...More Flexibility with Agenda and Minutes Documents
Since the beginning of the year you can download your agenda or minutes document in Word DOCX format, so you can customize the final document to your specification. Now we have made some great enhancements and improved the flexibility to the PDF versions. Include or...Work smarter with new dashboard
Efficient people do not work harder, they work smarter. Working smart starts with having a clear overview of what needs to be done. The new dashboard in MeetingKing gives you a clear overview so you can work smarter. You can quickly see what needs to be done: today...Select who receives your comment – New feature
The ability to comment on tasks is a very powerful feature popular by many of our users. Comments are great: to check on the status of a task to discuss additional details to deliver the requested information or files What is more, these comments are directly visible...New: Recording Meeting Attendance
You asked, we listened! You can now record meeting attendance. Simply click the attendance icon, click the attendance icon behind person’s name to change the status and MeetingKing will update your minutes document. Click attendance icon in the main navigation bar...How long should a meeting be?
When scheduling a meeting most people do not give too much thought to how long the meeting should take. When you create a meeting in Google Calendar or Outlook the default is one hour and many people just leave it at that. Since some attendees tend to show up late,...MeetingKing on the go – iPad App now live!
Running from meeting room to meeting room …. with your iPad Visiting customers …. with your iPad At night preparing tomorrow’s meetings on the couch …. with your iPad Now this is all super efficient with the ALL NEW MeetingKing iPad App. Prepare your meetings, make...New: Google Calendar Integration (2 way syncing)
Hurray, another feature to help you have better meetings – with less work: Automatic two way syncing with Google Calendar After activation, all your events in Google Calendar will show up in your MeetingKing calendar and clicking any of those events will...New: Meeting Minutes and Agenda in DOCX format
After adding the ability to download your task list in XLSX format you can now also download your Agenda and Minutes documents in Microsoft Word DOCX format. MeetingKing already created great agendas and minutes in PDF format, but sometimes you may want to make some...The Importance of Following Up on Meetings
How often have you found yourself back in the same meeting that you were in a few weeks ago discussing the same problems and having a strange sense of déjà vu? Unfortunately this is a very common problem that occurs with meetings, especially when tasks are not...New: Export task list in Excel xlsx format
Right before the holiday break we have more great news: Export your tasks to an Excel file. MeetingKing has a great tasks page, but sometimes you just want to work with your tasks in an other application or want to have a backup of all your tasks. Now you can. In your...More than 100,000 meetings and 1 million tasks!
Thank you for helping us reach this great milestone: More than 100,000 meetings and more than 1 million tasks! It is very rewarding to know that we are working on a tool that helps so many people around the globe save time and accomplish more. Help us spread the word,...10 Biggest mistakes people make while attending a meeting
Many people think meetings are a waste of time but that is probably because they are making the 10 biggest mistakes while attending a meeting. Meetings can be highly productive as long as the time is used effectively. Share this list with your team and you will have...How to Have an Effective Sales Call
Sales calls are the lifeblood of any sales person’s job. Handling sales calls well means the difference between securing business for your organization and failing to close a single deal. Getting organized in advance and prepared for important sales calls can help...How to Run an Effective Sales Meeting
Meetings can sometimes feel like a bit of a drag, but meetings are also an essential component of a smooth running business. Sales team meetings in particular are essential to the sharing of key information that helps the business to achieve its revenue targets. Team...How to take meeting notes during a meeting
Users often ask us “what is the most practical way to take notes during the meeting?” These tips will help you take better notes. If you use these meeting note taking tips in combination with the MeetingKing meeting minutes software, your meetings will be more...Sharing meeting templates
If you work in an organization it is great to standardize certain meetings and information. Sharing meeting templates is a great way to do this. You can create standard meeting templates for your organization for: Team meetings Personnel reviews Store/restaurant...10 Tips on How To Run an Effective Board Meeting
We have all at one time attended board meetings or at least heard of them and consequently we admit that a number of them are often so boring that our minds wander away to other things. Most people cannot wait for the meeting to end due to the monotony of the agenda...Listen to my interview with Steve Young of mobileappchat.com
Steve Young is the passionate host of http://mobileappchat.com/. He talks with many app authors and I was honored to be interviewed by him. Check out his website for a great collection of interviews and hear what authors experience when developing apps.New: Manage tasks on your phone, your PC and tablet…. via email!
Whether you like it or not, email is at the center of our daily activities and communication. Wouldn’t it be great if you can actually manage your tasks with email without opening another application? Now you can with MeetingKing! Turn any email into a task! We have...NEW: Easily add existing tasks to your agenda
We have made creating your agenda even more powerful. Often you want to discuss a task that you created before. This can be a stand alone task or a task from another meeting. Now you can add any existing task to any agenda. Watch the video to see it in action. ...Creativity is important – also in meetings
Today there is an interesting article by Scott Gerber on readwrite.com, that is worth sharing. Twelve entrepreneurs share their ideas on how to encourage creativity during meetings. According to the article you will promote creativity when you get rid of a rigid...Executive assistant Lorelei uses MeetingKing, so she can spend more time with her baby.
MeetingKing allows me to better organize my work and therefore I get things done more efficiently. — Lorelei Gibson, Summer Search Lorelei Gibson is the Executive Assistant to the CEO of the national organization of Summer Search in San Francisco and works...New easy way to manage your business, projects and contacts
MeetingKing started as a tool to help the world get rid of bad meetings. Meetings are, however, not stand-alone activities. Meetings are part of managing your business or project and meetings lead to tasks. Now you can easily manage your contacts, your projects and...MeetingKing servers updated for Heartbleed
As you may have heard or read, a security vulnerability nick-named “Heartbleed” was discovered in OpenSSL. OpenSSL is the secure communication between your computer and the servers hosting the web pages you view online and is used by 2/3 of the secure...New Fast and Flexible Note Taking Page (Beta)
We have some great news: it is now easier than ever to create your agenda and write your meeting minutes. Until now setting the agenda and making notes was very “form” driven. The information and output was great, but at times when the discussion went fast...Management by Walking Around (MBWA)
We live in an age of emails, conference calls and online meetings, so we often forget what business is about. Business is about people. Without your people, you don’t have a business. Pressure for results is high and schedules are tight so we rush from one activity...Listen to my interview with Jason Cohen founder of WPengine and Patrick Foley
Recently I had a great interview/brainstorming session with Jason Cohen and Patrick Foley. Jason is a very successful software entrepreneur and is the founder of wpengine and smart bear software. The interview was for his startup blog a smart bear. Patrick is a...How Crystal Candy uses MeetingKing for David Allen’s GTD (Getting Things Done)
I am a fanatic GTD guy and MeetingKing is the ideal tool for implementing David Allen’s GTD (Getting Things Done) in any organization. — Jimmy Psillos, General Manager, Crystal Candy, Zimbabwe This is one of my favorite success stories. I am not sure if it...How MeetingKing can play a role in process improvement and management.
I recently spoke with Andrew Spanyi on how MeetingKing can be used by process improvement professionals. Andrew has taught courses on process improvement and management at Babson College and is the author of three books and dozens of articles on operational leadership...How Diakonessenhuis Hospital met ISO requirements with MeetingKing
Apart from saving lots of time, MeetingKing solved my budget problems and was crucial to comply with very strict ISO certification requirements. — Joost Oudejans, Diakonessenhuis Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands Joost Oudejans is Clinical pathologist and...Productive school staff meetings – MeetingKing can help
School staff primary purpose is to provide education. Teachers should spend time with their students and not in meetings, therefore it is important to keep your meetings short and effective.School staff meetings have the usual challenges of participants who are not...How Root6 turned informal weekly gatherings into effective meetings with clear results.
MeetingKing is great for people who don’t do meetings! — Rupert Watson, director Root6, London, UK Root6 is the largest reseller for video production equipment and software in the UK. The company has 3 offices and employs 40 people. Rupert Watson is one of...New: Assigning tasks to multiple people and other enhancements
Thank you for all your feedback, we have been listening and made some great enhancements. Assigning tasks to multiple people One of the most requested enhancements was the ability to assign tasks to multiple owners. When we designed MeetingKing we made the deliberate...Great time zone tool
Very short blog post, but I just came across an extremely practical time zone tool, that I think is worth sharing. Check it out for yourself and see how easy it is at: http://everytimezone.com/ You may also want to read our blog post about scheduling across time zones...Assigning tasks – your organization vs. a weekend away with group of teenagers
To move your organization forward you need to create tasks and make sure they are completed. As with most things in life the basics are simple, it just comes down to doing it. The five steps of successful task management Create task Document task Set due date Assign...NEW: Projects and departments – MeetingKing helps to manage your business
Our developers have worked hard on a great new functionality to help you manage your business beyond your meetings. If you manage an organization and work on various projects and with different departments, you can now easily share and collaborate on any task with...Are you looking for a do.com replacement?
Do.com, a collaboration service owned by Salesforce.com, will close its doors (website) at the end January. This obviously really stinks if you have been relying on Do.com to run your business. However, every negative has a positive, and this is a great time for you...MeetingKing – a Tech Company to Watch at 2013 CT Innovation Summit
We are please to announce that MeetingKing has been selected as one of the Tech Companies to Watch for the 2013 Connecticut Innovation Summit. It is great to be identified as a high potential tech company! The 2013 Connecticut Innovation Summit will take place at the...$37 billion per year in unnecessary meetings, what is your share?
Meetings are great and are necessary to advance a project or organization. However, unlike many things, too many meetings is bad. Bad for morale, bad for productivity and bad for your bottom line. In the US alone we “enjoy” 11 million formal business meetings each day...How to run an effective meeting?
Effective meetings help to move an organization or a project forward. Effective meetings leave the participants energized and create a positive morale in an organization. Unfortunately many meetings are poorly managed and according to research by salary.com 47% of the...How to structure a general management meeting?
What is a general management meeting? General management meetings are probably the most common meetings in many organizations. Whether you run a department, an entire company, a school or a church, you will have meetings with representatives or leaders of all...Have meetings improved in the last 17 years?
17 years??? Why not 10 or 20? Well, a friend of mine just forwarded me a great article about meetings (he was bored during a meeting … he is in the process of convincing his superiors to use MeetingKing). Since it was a very good article about the problems...Watch the videos on the awesome new Calendar View
A few weeks ago we introduced the first version of the Calendar View. Now we have made it even better and you can display your Google Calendar in the Calendar View. Then with one click you can trun any Google Calendar event into a MeetingKing meeting! But enough...MeetingKing helps Technology Partners to make their meetings more organized, more productive and shorter.
In addition to having a centralized archive and a team task list, we are now also much better prepared for our meetings. — Efrain Longart, Technology Partners, Inc., Puerto Rico Recently I spoke with Efrain Longart partner of Technology Partners, Inc....Success makes you happy and productive!
Do you sometimes feel that you are just working and not accomplishing anything? New tasks and problems continue to come up, one task goes over into the next and there seems to be no end in sight. I have been using a simple trick for me and my team, that helps us to...New in Beta: Calendar View
Exciting news: we just added the Calendar View for Beta testing. The Calendar View helps you to get a quick overview of all your meetings and tasks. The interface is very easy and intuitive: To add a new meeting or a new task just click on the calendar. If you need to...Tips for faster note taking
Switching back and forth between your mouse and the keyboard is annoying and slows you down significantly. Here is a tip to make it much faster: use the tab and enter keys to navigate the note taking page. The tab key moves you to the next most frequently used field...New in MeetingKing: Powerful task management
Productive meetings result in tasks. Of course these tasks are useless unless you follow-up on them. Fortunately the new MeetingKing makes it very easy for you to manage your tasks. Tasks from previous meetings are automatically added to your new agenda See all tasks...MeetingKing Version 2 is Live!
MeetingKing version 2 is here! Some users already worked with the new version and the reactions have been great: “LOVING THE NEW VERSION!!!!!” – J.R., Auckland, New Zealand “I love its simplicity and Focus! Finally a tool to manage my...What do good meetings have in common?
If you are interested in having more productive meetings, you may want to read the following blog post on 99u.com on how to run meetings like apple and google. Obviously each company has its own meeting culture, but the basic ingredients are the same for all...Maintenance Announcement for May 25-26
Saturday May 25 and part of Sunday May 26 the MeetingKing application will be running in maintenance mode for a few hours. We will be upgrading our server infrastructure and releasing version 2 of MeetingKing. Any changes that you make to your account during that...Choices aren’t always that
If you have two options to choose from, and you don’t know which one you prefer, toss a coin. It doesn’t matter what side the coin falls on – as soon as the coin is tossed, you’ll know what option you prefer, because that’s the side you want the coin to fall on. In...Sometimes you need to shake things up – Yes in meetings too.
It’s not easy changing company policies, or getting people to change their habits, or even introducing new tools into a workplace. People will always talk about how things have changed and the old ways of doing things were so much better, or they might even continue...Big data is just too…. big
90% of the data in the world was created in the last two years. What this means to businesses, is that when you need to reach decisions (for example, how to re-design the Facebook Timeline), you have so much information to sort through, that many people have one of...Get started with Robert’s Rules of Order
Our goal is to help you improve your meetings. MeetingKing is a great tool to help you with the documentation and information distribution before, during and after your meetings and to make sure that things get done. However it is still up to the chair to manage the...IDK, MAYBE U R RIGHT
50m3 P30pL3 CAN unD3R57AND 73×7 3V3N wh3N 73H 73X7 12 m1X3d uP. 8u7 17 12’n7 3A5Y, r19h7? (To translate that into English, just use this leet-speak translator 🙂 ) In other words, you need to remember that not everyone speaks your language. For example,...No more work from home?
At the same time that I, Edwin, wrote yesterday’s post, our marketing guy and and social media guru, Avi Kaye, had his own thoughts on the new Marissa Mayer rule at Yahoo – he doesn’t see working from home as impacting productivity so much as getting...Yahoo and the power of face-to-face meetings
I am sure you read about the decision by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer that employees can no longer work from home. You have to be in the office or can leave the company. There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of working remotely or in the office, so I...Mini Meetings, or Pair Programming
Pair programming is a method used in some development teams. The idea is very simple – have two programmers – a ‘pair’, if you will 🙂 – work together on the same code. One writes code while the other observes, and they switch roles every so often. This is, of course,...When it comes to meetings you should sharpen your ax regularly
Lets play a little game. Imagine you are in a forest. You need to chop down 40 trees. It only takes you fifteen minutes to chop down the first ten trees – because you’ve got a sharp ax! You could stop and sharpen your ax, but it takes half an hour – and...Why is meeting culture hard to change?
Put five monkeys in a cage with a ladder in the middle. Dangle a banana just above the ladder. Every time a monkey tries to climb the ladder to get the banana, spray the other monkeys with jets of freezing cold water. After a while, you’ll see that every monkey that...Do I really need this meeting?
Yesterday I was trying to schedule a meeting with a client, with very little success. The next few days were fully booked (including Friday) with his meetings, as were Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. We managed to squeeze in a meeting on Wednesday between a business...A good meeting is like a good meal
I’ve been watching more than my fair share of cookery shows on the TV lately, and of course, meetings, and how to make them better, are never really far from my mind. So when I started really paying attention to these things, I noticed that cooking a good meal is just...How running a meeting is like playing a game
The New York Knicks (who are first in their division with 21 wins and 8 losses) played the Los Angeles Lakers (who have 13 wins and 14 losses) on Christmas Day. The match promised to be a good one, despite the Lakers record, the New York Knicks were the clear...Why you should KISS at meetings
You should KISS at meetings. Not with your lips “kiss” (that’s up to you to choose), but KISS as in Keep It Simple Stupid*. Take Instagram’s recent changes of their Terms and Conditions as a perfect example of how not to keep things simple. If you haven’t heard,...Founder of MeetingKing, in Avangate Software & It Leaders Interview Series
Recently Edwin Siebesma, founder of MeetingKing, was interviewed by Michael Ni for the Avangate Software & It Leaders interview series. Avangate is a leader in online payment and ecommerce solutions for software companies and SaaS providers. The interview was...I HATE meetings
How many times have you heard the phrase “I HATE MEETINGS”? It can be before a board meeting, a team meeting or a company meeting – the sentiment remains the same. People hate meetings. Meetings are time wasters, meetings are set up by people who don’t...8 Steps to Meeting Perfection
This is a guest post by Alan Cairns. Alan writes on a number of subjects including virtual receptionist services. Meetings are a bug bear for many business professionals. Many say that meetings take up all their time and they can’t get any “real” work done because of...10,000 users make quite a bit of a splash!
Thank you for helping us make MeetingKing what it is today, and for sticking with us on our journey towards being the only tool that you’ll need for your meetings. Oh, and keep your eyes peeled for beta invites for the new version of MeetingKing!The Meeting Sledgehammer
An agenda is part of a meeting’s building blocks. Distractions are a sledgehammer. I’m not talking about subjects that come up during meetings that aren’t on the agenda. These things are perfectly natural, as people discuss items. Sometimes, you want to put it in the...Debbie Leven on meetings and agendas, in 140 characters
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...Follow-up meetings are important
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...MeetingKing Wins Avangate Scholarship for Business of Software Conference
We are proud to announce that MeetingKing is one of the 5 winners of the first Avangate Business of Software (BoS) Scholarship Program. This is a great recognition for having developed a compelling innovative product to help push the SaaS industry to new levels. The...Using Meeting Minutes To Get Things Done
We’ve already explained how to write meetings minutes, and shown how to use the Meeting Minutes template. But how do you use those meeting minutes to get things done? Just to remind you – MeetingKing makes it extremely simple to write down the meeting minutes as...New Features: Lock Meeting for Editing and Manage Contacts
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...Meeting advice by Seth Godin
I love Seth Godin’s blog for the common sense approach to life and business matters. Today’s post is about meetings and worth reading http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/08/how-to-run-a-problem-solving-meeting.html.5 Reasons you’ll love your next meeting
Most people hate meetings. Many meetings are long, counter-productive, don’t get anywhere, and nothing gets done. But they aren’t supposed to be like that. Meetings should be to the point. Meetings should be about getting together the right people to make the right...Managing Sports Club Meetings
Meetings at sports clubs should be managed just like any other meeting, if they are to be effective. Whether it is a monthly meeting of the soccer club, the hockey club annual general meeting, or the baseball board meeting, all sports clubs meetings should be properly...Getting Things Done with MeetingKing
Getting Things Done is a methodology that allows businesses and individuals to increase their productivity. The brainchild of management consultant David Allen, the central idea of the theory is that it is not particularly productive to have people remembering the...Interview on The Startup Success Podcast
Recently I had a great interview with Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley of The Startup Success Podcast. Before starting MeetingKing I was president/CEO of WinZip for many years and starting a new company from scratch is very different from running a successful established...Carrying out Job Interviews and How MeetingKing Can Help
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...Tips for Effective Personnel Performance Review Meetings
Many employees and appraisers dread performance review meetings. They create paperwork and administration that has to be carried out on both sides. Also, for the appraiser, such meetings usually require the passing on of constructive feedback to employees, which can...A Meeting without an Agenda is like Shopping without a List
This weekend we finally had some great weather for a cook-out. So in between kids’ soccer games I decided to do some shopping. I did not have a list but I had been in the supermarket before, so how hard could it be. Well the result was as follows: I bought stuff...Don’t Let Meeting Killers Derail your Meeting
Today there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger – Meet the Meeting Killers. In the article she identifies 5 personalities who can kill your meeting: The Jokester The Dominator The Naysayer The Rambler The Quiet Plotter The article also...Writing Meeting Minutes – Shorter is Better
Don’t like writing meeting minutes? You are not alone. Once you know a few tricks however, it is not that hard and with the right tool it is not a lot of work and will help you to get things done. So why would you write meeting minutes? First, it adds structure to...Long Office Hours – a Waste of your Time
Dedication is often measured in the number of hours people spend at the office, but research has shown over and over again that having a healthy balance between work and other activities leads to much higher productivity. Problem with corporate America is that we are...MeetingKing Now Available in Google Apps Marketplace
If you are a Google Apps user or system administrator you can now add MeetingKing to your business apps. Google Apps keeps all your apps in one place and MeetingKing keeps all meeting information in one place! Visit MeetingKing listing on Google Apps...Importance of Parking Lot for Meetings
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...New feature: Easily find tasks related to current topic
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...A Practical Guide to Meeting Facilitation
Meeting facilitation is the art of making meetings run smoother. Meeting facilitators help meeting participants to stick to an agenda and progress through that agenda without getting stuck on difficult issues. It is the responsibility of the meeting facilitator to...MeetingKing review on Sociableblog.com
MeetingKing goes beyond traditional project management tools, which can only manage one project at the time. MeetingKing is like an accounting system for all your decisions and tasks of your meetings and conversations. MeetingKing: More Productive Meetings With Less...New features – Meeting Templates and Custom Logo
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...The secrets of an effective hybrid meeting
Hybrid meetings are becoming more and more common in business. Hybrid meetings are when a combination of in-person and virtual elements are used to run the meeting. Hybrid meetings can be particularly useful for companies that have some employees that are teleworking,...How to Effectively Run an In-Person Meeting
Virtual meetings are more and more frequently becoming standard day-to-day business practice, and businesses need to understand how to run remote meetings effectively. However, running an in-person meeting is still far more frequent of an occurrence in organizations,...Press Release: MeetingKing – A New Web-Based Workflow and Documentation Tool Increases Meeting Productivity
MeetingKing – A New Web-Based Workflow and Documentation Tool Increases Meeting Productivity Helps Keep Meetings Short and Effective Meeting Facilitation and Documentation Easier than Ever February 16, 2012, Tolland, CT/PR Newswire/ Paracas Solutions, announced...Where’s the Boss? Trapped in a Meeting.
Today The Wall Street Journal published a very interesting article on the amount of time a CEO spends in meetings. A team of scholars from London School of Economics and Harvard Business School, analyzed the day-to-day schedules of more than 500 CEOs from around the...When to use face to face meetings and when to hold virtual meetings
These days the technologies exist to allow most meetings to be held virtually. From conference calls, to web conferencing, and lately even video conferencing, there are many different options to choose from in determining what type of meeting to run. In addition to...Great review of MeetingKing on Killerstartups.com
Read about MeetingKing on Killerstartups.com — A tool that comes with a great range of features and at just the right price, MeetingKing is sure to let you start getting the most of all the meetings you have with your team. — Read more:...New Features – Daily update, review recipients of minutes and agenda and more
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...MeetingKing at WebInno in Boston
MeetingKing – A New Web-Based Meeting Management Tool Makes Meetings Highly Effective and Well Organized Founder, Edwin Siebesma to Present at WebInno on November 29, 2011 Tolland, CT, November 28, 2011- MeetingKing founder Edwin Siebesma will be...Schedule meetings and invite participants directly from Outlook, Google Calendar and iCal
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...Stress is caused by work you DO NOT do
Stress is often associated with working hard and long hours, yet some manual laborers work many hours but don?t seem to suffer from stress. So what causes stress? I once read: ?You don?t get stress from the work you do, you get stress from the work you don?t do?. This...Make private notes right in your agenda and minutes
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...Meetings: Frustrating facilitators and annoying attendees
Interesting article on different types of people ruining your meetings. Meetings: Frustrating facilitators and annoying attendeesMeetingKing reviewed on Bright Hub
Don’t just take our word for how great MeetingKing is, please read the MeetingKing review on Bright Hub.MeetingKing will present at Governor’s Economic Summit
Great news – MeetingKing will be one of the three start-ups to present during the Start-Up Connecticut session at the 2011 Connecticut Governor’s Economic Summit in Hartford on October 6th. Start-Up Connecticut is the CT region of Start-Up America, a...The Modern Meeting Standard and MeetingKing
I just finished reading the book The Modern Meeting Standard by Al Pittampalli. Great to see that some else is as passionate about improving meetings as I am. At the same time it is sad that it is necessary to write a book and develop software for something so...First Public Beta Announced
We just announced the first public beta of MeetingKing. We have been working hard the last few months and added a lot of new functionality and fixed some pre-release bugs. Some of the features we added are: “Follow-up meetings” – When creating a new...Meeting costs and potential savings
We all spend a lot of time (too much) in meetings. According to the Wharton Center for Applied Research, the average CEO spends 17 hours per week in meetings, senior executives an average of 23 hours and middle managers 11 hours. And according to senior and middle...Great blog post about more effective meetings
I just found this great blog post: http://michaelhyatt.com/seven-rules-for-more-effective-meetings.html This article could almost be a sales pitch for MeetingKing………MeetingKing in a retail operation
Before I became involved in the software and Internet industry I was active in retail. As VP of sales I was directly managing many different teams and was the main liaison between the stores and the various departments at headquarters. In this role I would have lots...Productive meetings with less effort
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