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 73x7 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, you’re the...
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 some creative...
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...
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 you need to...
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 about...
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 know how to...
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 the...
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.
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