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...

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...

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...

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

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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 course,...

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,...

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!

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...