5 Reasons you’ll love your next meeting
Most people hate meetings. Many meetings are long, counter-productive, don’t get anywhere, and nothing gets done. But they aren’t supposed to be like that. Meetings should be to the point. Meetings should be about getting together the right people to make the right...
Managing Sports Club Meetings
Meetings at sports clubs should be managed just like any other meeting, if they are to be effective. Whether it is a monthly meeting of the soccer club, the hockey club annual general meeting, or the baseball board meeting, all sports clubs meetings should be properly...
Getting Things Done with MeetingKing
Getting Things Done is a methodology that allows businesses and individuals to increase their productivity. The brainchild of management consultant David Allen, the central idea of the theory is that it is not particularly productive to have people remembering the...
Interview on The Startup Success Podcast
Recently I had a great interview with Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley of The Startup Success Podcast. Before starting MeetingKing I was president/CEO of WinZip for many years and starting a new company from scratch is very different from running a successful established...
Carrying out Job Interviews and How MeetingKing Can Help
Carrying out job interviews can be a challenge. It can be hard to make sure that you ask each candidate the same questions, while at the same making sure the conversation has a natural flow and feel. Hiring people is a costly exercise, and it is something that you...
Tips for Effective Personnel Performance Review Meetings
Many employees and appraisers dread performance review meetings. They create paperwork and administration that has to be carried out on both sides. Also, for the appraiser, such meetings usually require the passing on of constructive feedback to employees, which can...
A Meeting without an Agenda is like Shopping without a List
This weekend we finally had some great weather for a cook-out. So in between kids' soccer games I decided to do some shopping. I did not have a list but I had been in the supermarket before, so how hard could it be. Well the result was as follows: I bought stuff that...
Don’t Let Meeting Killers Derail your Meeting
Today there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger – Meet the Meeting Killers. In the article she identifies 5 personalities who can kill your meeting: The Jokester The Dominator The Naysayer The Rambler The Quiet Plotter The article also...
Writing Meeting Minutes – Shorter is Better
Don’t like writing meeting minutes? You are not alone. Once you know a few tricks however, it is not that hard and with the right tool it is not a lot of work and will help you to get things done. So why would you write meeting minutes? First, it adds structure to...
Long Office Hours – a Waste of your Time
Dedication is often measured in the number of hours people spend at the office, but research has shown over and over again that having a healthy balance between work and other activities leads to much higher productivity. Problem with corporate America is that we are...
MeetingKing Now Available in Google Apps Marketplace
If you are a Google Apps user or system administrator you can now add MeetingKing to your business apps. Google Apps keeps all your apps in one place and MeetingKing keeps all meeting information in one place! Visit MeetingKing listing on Google Apps...
Importance of Parking Lot for Meetings
Meetings can often go off the agenda. Sometimes this is because a person wants to air their point of view with a forum. Other times it may be because an attendee has not understood the purpose of the meeting, and believes that their point is relevant. In other...
New feature: Easily find tasks related to current topic
Another new feature to help you have a total overview. Most meetings cover different topics and it is always hard to get a quick overview of what is going on with each topic. Not anymore. You can easily find any task related to the topic you are discussing without...
A Practical Guide to Meeting Facilitation
Meeting facilitation is the art of making meetings run smoother. Meeting facilitators help meeting participants to stick to an agenda and progress through that agenda without getting stuck on difficult issues. It is the responsibility of the meeting facilitator to...
MeetingKing review on Sociableblog.com
MeetingKing goes beyond traditional project management tools, which can only manage one project at the time. MeetingKing is like an accounting system for all your decisions and tasks of your meetings and conversations....
New features – Meeting Templates and Custom Logo
You asked, we listened. We have been working hard on some much requested features: Templates Customizable logo Meeting Templates It has never been easier to prepare your meeting. When preparing the agenda (or starting the meeting…..), just click “Load template” and...
The secrets of an effective hybrid meeting
Hybrid meetings are becoming more and more common in business. Hybrid meetings are when a combination of in-person and virtual elements are used to run the meeting. Hybrid meetings can be particularly useful for companies that have some employees that are teleworking,...
How to Effectively Run an In-Person Meeting
Virtual meetings are more and more frequently becoming standard day-to-day business practice, and businesses need to understand how to run remote meetings effectively. However, running an in-person meeting is still far more frequent of an occurrence in organizations,...
Press Release: MeetingKing – A New Web-Based Workflow and Documentation Tool Increases Meeting Productivity
MeetingKing - A New Web-Based Workflow and Documentation Tool Increases Meeting Productivity Helps Keep Meetings Short and Effective Meeting Facilitation and Documentation Easier than Ever February 16, 2012, Tolland, CT/PR Newswire/ Paracas Solutions, announced today...
Where’s the Boss? Trapped in a Meeting.
Today The Wall Street Journal published a very interesting article on the amount of time a CEO spends in meetings. A team of scholars from London School of Economics and Harvard Business School, analyzed the day-to-day schedules of more than 500 CEOs from around the...
When to use face to face meetings and when to hold virtual meetings
These days the technologies exist to allow most meetings to be held virtually. From conference calls, to web conferencing, and lately even video conferencing, there are many different options to choose from in determining what type of meeting to run. In addition to...
Great review of MeetingKing on Killerstartups.com
Read about MeetingKing on Killerstartups.com -- A tool that comes with a great range of features and at just the right price, MeetingKing is sure to let you start getting the most of all the meetings you have with your team. -- Read more:...
New Features – Daily update, review recipients of minutes and agenda and more
First of all I would like to thank you for using MeetingKing and for the great feedback you have been sending. You have given us some really good ideas and helped us prioritizing new features and enhancements. Enhancements to MeetingKing Daily meeting and task update...
MeetingKing at WebInno in Boston
MeetingKing - A New Web-Based Meeting Management Tool Makes Meetings Highly Effective and Well Organized Founder, Edwin Siebesma to Present at WebInno on November 29, 2011 Tolland, CT, November 28, 2011- MeetingKing founder Edwin Siebesma will be...
Schedule meetings and invite participants directly from Outlook, Google Calendar and iCal
You can now create a meeting in MeetingKing using Outlook, Google Calendar or iCal. Just create a new meeting request in your preferred calendar application, add schedule@meetingking.com to the list of invitees and send the meeting request. MeetingKing will...
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