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...
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