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...