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)
This is one of my favorite success stories. I am not sure if it is because it is of the unexpected location of this customer or because Jimmy and his team manage their entire business using MeetingKing. Jimmy Psillos is General Manager of Crystal...
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
Joost Oudejans is Clinical pathologist and head of the pathology department at the Diakonessenhuis Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has been a MeetingKing user since 2012 and is now also using MeetingKing for the Netherlands Organization of...
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.
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 the 3 directors and has been using MeetingKing since May 2012. The Problem Root6 implements...
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 around...
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.
Recently I spoke with Efrain Longart partner of Technology Partners, Inc. Technology Partners develops Custom Software, sophisticated reports with Business Intelligence technology and provides Database maintenance services for its customers. The...
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 business." -R.d.G., New York, USA...
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...
Productive meetings with less effort
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- - Write meeting minutes
- - manage meeting tasks
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