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:...
MeetingKing Beta Testing
Thank you for your interest. At this moment there is no MeetingKing Beta version available.
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...
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. Occasionally we will share an interesting article, that we believe can help you improve your meetings....
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...
#1 resolution for 2019 – No more bad meetings!
Happy New Year! The title of this post states that improving meetings is the number one resolution for 2019. OK, I made that up, but it should be! Up to 50% of meeting time is wasted, because participants are not prepared and there is no follow-up. Do you want to...
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 and...
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...
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