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    • Features Update

    What We're Working On

    We know LessMeeting hasn't had a big features update in the last few months, but we wanted to let everyone know that we have some great things in the pipeline. In the past few weeks we have released some minor updates that have made the application more stable and easier to use, such as reordering t

    By Jeffrey Steinke

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    • Features Update

    LessMeeting Mini Release: Huddles, Nested Agendas and More

    Today we have a new LessMeeting mini release that introduces some new functionality and includes a handful of fixes and improvements. So what's new? Here are the highlights: Have a Huddle meeting See when Google last synced with LessMeeting Nested Agendas for meetings from GCal and CC Meet Now

    By Jeffrey Steinke

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    • Meeting Tips

    Why You Should Quit Praising Stand-Up Meetings

    Is your computer running antivirus software? Chances are it is, and every morning when you start up your computer it downloads new antivirus definitions in order to protect against the latest viruses and spyware. This is know as signature-based detection. There's an interesting problem with this mo

    By Jeffrey Steinke

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    • Features Update

    New Release: Announcing Google Integration and Other Great Updates

    The ability to automatically sync your meetings and tasks with Google; custom meeting minute templates; updates to Daily Digest settings for your meeting attendees; and of course a number of helpful bug fixes?Yep, we've got all that and more in the latest LessMeeting release. Check out the details b

    By Jeffrey Steinke

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    • Business Tips
    • Meeting Tips

    Should I Bring My Laptop To Your Meeting?

    A couple weeks back I was in a client meeting giving a presentation of two alternate solutions. Afterward I asked the lead architect for her recommendation."Uhhhhh, can you repeat that again real quick?" she blankly asked.Seriously?! I've just spent the last 10 minutes describing everything, but you

    By Jeffrey Steinke

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    • Meeting Tips

    Managing the Meeting Hog

    Ball Hogs & Meeting Hogs Dave Berri over at Freakonomics recently came up with an interesting analogy between meetings and the NBA...yes the National Basketball Association. He argues that ball hogs and never-ending meetings suffer from the same problem: a combination of over confidence + under

    By Jeffrey Steinke

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    • Meeting Tips

    Meeting Villains: The Meeting Parrot

    Continuing our series on Meeting villains,  today we are talking about The Meeting Parrot.  Boat-drinks on the Beach: You are sitting there in the cabana of the beach bar… you look out onto the white sand beach and see all of the shirtless tanned guys and women in their new designer bikinis enjoyin

    By Brett Cooper

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    • Meeting Tips

    Meeting Villains: Meet-Head

    Continuing our series on Meeting villains,  today we are talking about The Meet-Head. The Dreaded Invite:You dread when you see the meeting invite from him.  He has scheduled 4 meetings with you already this week, and those meetings digressed into him updating a spreadsheet on the projector while

    By Brett Cooper

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    • Meeting Tips

    Meeting Villains: How to Tell if Someone is a Hijacker.

    Previously we introduced you to the Meeting Villains, this is the first installment in that series: The Meeting Hijacker. The Hijacking You didn't suspect that he would turn out to be a Hijacker. It was your first meeting with him.  He looked pretty clean cut… dressed like any other businessman… w

    By Brett Cooper

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