Meeting and productivity best practices — your weekly guide to running a productive, organized meeting culture.https://lessmeeting.com/en-ushttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/starting-and-stopping-meetings-on-time/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/starting-and-stopping-meetings-on-time/The Executive Decree - "We will start meetings on time, and we will end meetings on time." At the beginning of my first meeting at a new client, I arrived early and picked my spot near the far corner of the conference room table (I prefer to sit near the corner of the table closest to the screen). TMon, 04 Mar 2019 17:22:33 GMTBusiness TipsMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/followup-action-items/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/followup-action-items/Have you ever walked away from a meeting with a sneaking suspicion that nothing discussed in the meeting will get accomplished? Were you right? Early on in my career, I had too many meetings where followup items just didn't get done.  It wasn't because the people were incompetent or didn't care… noMon, 21 Jan 2019 16:16:29 GMTGeneral ProductivityMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/schedule-meeting-someone-dont-know/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/schedule-meeting-someone-dont-know/So you are looking to schedule a meeting with someone you don’t know very well… What is the correct protocol to ask for a meeting? How do you get the meeting without seeming like a jerk? What if they turn you down? These questions can cause you anxiety, especially if you're an introvert whSat, 15 Dec 2018 15:24:34 GMTBusiness TipsMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/what-should-be-in-your-meeting-minutes/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/what-should-be-in-your-meeting-minutes/Why are Meeting Minutes important? Meeting minutes remind attendees of important highlights, action items and key decisions made during a meeting. They also serve as a great way to update those that cannot attend and help increase accountability within an organization. What should be included? MeeSat, 22 Sep 2018 10:35:48 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-follow-up-on-that-unanswered-meeting-request/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-follow-up-on-that-unanswered-meeting-request/Sometimes simply scheduling the meeting can be the hardest part. You were at an event last night and met Brett. He had some awesome ideas to help your startup so you got his card and he suggested you get together soon. The next day you email him to schedule a meeting but you never hear from Brett agTue, 29 May 2018 14:53:00 GMTBusiness TipsMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/hidden-benefit-stand-up-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/hidden-benefit-stand-up-meeting/Stand-up Meetings A slap in the face to mundane, never-ending meetings that you dread going to on Monday morning. Why? They keep the meeting focused & on topic They eliminate distractions like phones and computers They prevent people from getting on their soapboxes …and most importantlSat, 21 Nov 2015 10:00:17 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/8-meetings-worth-attending/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/8-meetings-worth-attending/It's no secret that leaders have differing views on meetings.  Some meet far too often, while others don't believe in meeting at all. Frankly, it's not about how often you're meeting, but rather what those meetings are accomplishing. We wanted to see what type of meetings work at successful businesThu, 15 Jan 2015 15:03:37 GMTBusiness TipsMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-less-meeting-release-making-meetings-easier-manage/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-less-meeting-release-making-meetings-easier-manage/Our spring release is out the door and chances are you've already noticed some of the changes around Less Meeting. We started simplifying the meeting interface and also added a couple highly requested features to manage meeting invites. Meeting Agenda Templates Do you have the same template you useThu, 06 Mar 2014 10:00:18 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/7-steps-perfect-meeting-agenda/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/7-steps-perfect-meeting-agenda/Objective: Determine projected sales goals for 2014.Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:23:41 GMTBusiness TipsMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/best-tools-tracking-action-items/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/best-tools-tracking-action-items/At Less Meeting, we're huge fans of getting things done. There are several action items tools Less Meeting integrates with and others that are useful for outside your meeting todos. Here's a quick breakdown of the best tools for tracking action items: 1) Google Tasks Free *integrates with LessFri, 03 Jan 2014 16:09:43 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/secrets-meetings-successful-companies/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/secrets-meetings-successful-companies/Companies that have a strong sense of purpose and great company culture have clearly defined expectations about how daily business should be conducted.Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:17:26 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/words-of-wisdom-for-the-project-manager/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/words-of-wisdom-for-the-project-manager/This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth Harrin about some of the pain points project managers face and how to fix them. Elizabeth Harrin, MA, FAPM, MBCS is Director of The Otobos Group, a project communications consultancy specialising in copywriting for project management firms. SThu, 31 Oct 2013 12:43:00 GMTBusiness TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/stay-comfortable-at-your-desk/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/stay-comfortable-at-your-desk/The business world used to be a lot more "active" 100 years ago. You'd hop on a horse and buggy to meet with potential customers, walk up several flights of stairs to ask your boss a quick question and eat whatever was in walking distance to your office. Today, you don't even have to leave your desThu, 24 Oct 2013 14:28:00 GMTBusiness TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/7-questions-for-the-productivity-pro/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/7-questions-for-the-productivity-pro/The best way to learn about any subject is to study the leaders of that particular field. For this week's post, we had the pleasure of speaking with Laura Stack about different ways to increase productivity in the workplace. Laura Stack is America’s premier expert in Productivity. For over 20 yearsMon, 07 Oct 2013 09:43:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/3-project-management-tools/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/3-project-management-tools/Here at Less Meeting, we're no strangers to the project management world. Many of us are former PM's and many of our users are PM's trying to find better ways to manage their always growing workload. Along the way, we've picked up a few tips from users who are using software to help maximize their Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:58:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/stress-free-meetings-by-carthage-buckley/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/stress-free-meetings-by-carthage-buckley/Meetings are often used within business to solve problems. If used effectively, meetings are a fantastic tool for solving problems. If they are not managed effectively, meetings can create more problems than they solve. Poorly managed meetings regularly run over time, fail to stick to the agenda, reTue, 24 Sep 2013 14:32:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/less-meeting-update-3-improved-calendar-sync-outlook-2013-support/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/less-meeting-update-3-improved-calendar-sync-outlook-2013-support/As we wrap up our series on our latest release we have two under-the-hood calendar sync updates we're excited to announce. 1. Improved Calendar Integration We're consistently improving the calendar sync feature so that the meetings you see in Less Meeting match up with your calendar.While we've madeMon, 23 Sep 2013 09:57:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/less-meeting-update-2-international-date-support-meeting-search-teams/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/less-meeting-update-2-international-date-support-meeting-search-teams/Continuing with the updates from our latest release we have three more new features to show off. 1. International Date Support We're very excited to start displaying meeting dates & times in your localized format. Want your time shown in "dd/mm/yyyy" instead of "mm/dd/yyyy" format? No problem!Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:22:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/less-meeting-update-1-undo-new-linking-options-more-shortcuts/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/less-meeting-update-1-undo-new-linking-options-more-shortcuts/We're excited as this week we've pushed out another huge Less Meeting update.There's a lot of great new features so we're spreading our updates out over a few posts so that you don't miss anything. Check out the details below and stay tuned to future updates coming this week... 1. Undo Accidental NoWed, 18 Sep 2013 13:54:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/productivity-tools-you-need-to-be-using/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/productivity-tools-you-need-to-be-using/The old saying, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" is a mantra for mediocrity. If you could be doing something more efficiently and save time doing it, isn't that something worth fixing? By very definition, good technology is intended to make your life easier. With the invention of the internet, smThu, 15 Aug 2013 15:50:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/write-a-more-effective-meeting-agenda/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/write-a-more-effective-meeting-agenda/The key to a great meeting starts with proper preparation and ends with thoughtful follow up. While it sounds like an easy task, why do we still have meetings that run long, go off-topic, and feel unorganized? Most of these problems can be pinned to poor agendas (or worse, no agenda at all!). Here'Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:10:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/good-habits-start-with-your-team/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/good-habits-start-with-your-team/One morning you woke up and decided to take action against all the activities in your life that were unnecessarily taking up your time. So, you made a hot cup of coffee and began reading 'Getting Things Done' with the intention of adding time back to your day and improving your process for maximizinThu, 18 Jul 2013 11:08:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-mobile-release-introducing-audio-recording-more/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-mobile-release-introducing-audio-recording-more/iPad/iPhone Audio Recording We'd heard your requests wanting audio recording for the Less Meeting app. And so a few weeks back we asked you why you record audio in your meetings? As we've been working we learned of a few similar themes: You're already recording your meetings using other apps withWed, 17 Jul 2013 08:04:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-declaration-of-meeting-independence/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-declaration-of-meeting-independence/ Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:21:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/setup-less-meeting-in-3-easy-steps/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/setup-less-meeting-in-3-easy-steps/New to Less meeting? Follow our easy 3 step guide to be completely set up in less than 5 minutes. You can also download the guides on our support page located HERE. If you are using Google Calendar: If you are using Outlook:Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:59:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/want-to-improve-your-meetings-change-your-meeting-culture/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/want-to-improve-your-meetings-change-your-meeting-culture/ Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:06:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-take-notes/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-take-notes/There are two types of people in the world. Those that take notes and those that make friends with people that take notes. Whichever category you fall in, there's no denying that notes can significantly help the production of a team. Sharing essential information, remembering urgent tasks and referWed, 12 Jun 2013 10:49:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/enjoy-the-climb/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/enjoy-the-climb/(image source: fineartamerica.com) Every business has an end goal they are trying to accomplish. While it can be easy to put a heavy focus on the final result, this approach tends to make goals seem less attainable, add unnecessary stress, and frankly make things less enjoyable. To paraphrase the ZeMon, 27 May 2013 22:09:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-do-you-record-audio-in-your-meetings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-do-you-record-audio-in-your-meetings/Lately one of our more frequent feature requests is for audio recording, especially in our iPad and iPhone apps. Seems like a natural extension to Less Meeting, right? And if you look through the app store there are tons of audio recording mobile apps, some even a bit pricey. So there appears to beFri, 24 May 2013 08:00:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/infographic-meet-the-meeting-villains/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/infographic-meet-the-meeting-villains/Want more help combating these meeting villains? Signup for a free Less Meeting account here.Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:48:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-lunch-and-learn/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-lunch-and-learn/0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-pWed, 20 Mar 2013 16:36:00 GMTBusiness TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/announcing-reminders-integration-for-ipadiphone/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/announcing-reminders-integration-for-ipadiphone/We've got a short & sweet mobile app update - announcing action item integration with your iPad/iPhone Reminders app! Setting up Sync with your Reminders App How does the sync work between your Less Meeting app and your iPad or iPhone? Simple, just turn it on from the "Settings" tab of the LeTue, 19 Mar 2013 13:30:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/an-important-note-about-the-latest-less-meeting-mobile-app-update/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/an-important-note-about-the-latest-less-meeting-mobile-app-update/That didn't work out as planned... We were all ready to tell you about our latest Less Meeting mobile app update (v1.2.2). We have fixes in place for a number of key bugs, as well as integration with the Apple iOS Reminders app. Cool stuff, right? Well, in the process we unfortunately had a criticMon, 18 Mar 2013 17:35:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/will-there-be-food/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/will-there-be-food/Do you have low attendance in your meetings? Are people leaving before the meeting is actually over? Sounds like you might need some sandwiches. It's no secret that people love food. In fact, people love food so much that they are willing to hear what you have to say just to have a bite. Not only wTue, 12 Mar 2013 11:24:00 GMTBusiness TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/walk-n-talk/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/walk-n-talk/With an estimated 11 million formal meetings a day in the US alone, it’s no wonder employees find it hard to keep up with their daily tasks while still living a healthy lifestyle. We’ve heard it all before: 30 minutes of activity a day equates to longer and happier lives. Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:26:00 GMTMeeting TipsStephen Weberhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-ipadiphone-release-editdelete-meetings-custom-minutes-help-more/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-ipadiphone-release-editdelete-meetings-custom-minutes-help-more/Happy New Year part II!Last week we announced an updated Outlook plugin and this week we've got more new stuff on the way for you. This time around it's v2 of our iPad & iPhone apps! After our initial app release at the end of last year we got some fantastic feedback. Long time Less Meeting usWed, 16 Jan 2013 12:15:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-outlook-plugin-release-meeting-notifications/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-outlook-plugin-release-meeting-notifications/Happy New Year! To get your meetings off on the right foot in 2013 we've released an updated Less Meeting Outlook plugin. Check out the details below. Making it Easier to Start Your Meetings A common comment we hear is that sometimes you wish you'd used Less Meeting to take notes for a meeting buTue, 08 Jan 2013 10:45:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/an-easy-way-to-start-owning-your-meeting-schedule/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/an-easy-way-to-start-owning-your-meeting-schedule/The only thing better than a short meeting is the meeting that gets cancelled. Quick, efficient meetings are fantastic.The problem is, I often bite off more than I can chew. I tend to over-promise and under-deliver when it comes to actually keeping the meeting short. Think of me as the restaurant hoTue, 20 Nov 2012 09:30:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/ipad-and-iphone-less-meeting-apps-now-available-and-free/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/ipad-and-iphone-less-meeting-apps-now-available-and-free/We're excited to introduce the latest addition to the Less Meeting family.First we brought better meetings to the web. Then we let you connect Less Meeting to any Calendar, working behind the scenes to seamlessly and automatically sync all your meetings to Less Meeting. Now we've gone mobile, takinThu, 08 Nov 2012 14:36:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-release-one-click-agendas-new-help-resources-and-more/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-release-one-click-agendas-new-help-resources-and-more/In the latest Less Meeting release we've made it easier to create agendas on the fly, launched a brand new support site, gave you a taste of the new Less Meeting look, and more.Get the details below. Create an Agenda in One-Click In an ideal world every meeting would have a plan going into it - a Fri, 02 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/first-up-on-my-to-do-list-keep-my-to-do-list/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/first-up-on-my-to-do-list-keep-my-to-do-list/Have you seen any of the posts lately calling out to-do lists as Productivity Porn? They want us to give them up, go cold turkey, and - I know this sounds crazy - start relying on our brains to remember what to do. This would be awesome, right? Freedom from that layer of post-its taped all around yTue, 23 Oct 2012 10:28:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/a-simple-hack-to-make-your-manager-love-you/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/a-simple-hack-to-make-your-manager-love-you/Most managers are in meetings all day - it's part of the job. But what if it didn't need to be that way? How to Get Your Manager to Just Say "No" The reason why managers feel the need to be in meetings all of the time is because they want to be "kept in the loop" about everything...so they go to bacThu, 11 Oct 2012 09:28:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/super-simple-evernote-integration-with-less-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/super-simple-evernote-integration-with-less-meeting/Evernote is one of the best tools we've found for managing all the thoughts & ideas in our lives - both at work and at home. And Evernote does a great job of making all those notes: easy to find available anywhere available from any device But at the end of the day Evernote is just a basiTue, 11 Sep 2012 13:53:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-be-a-meeting-ninja/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-be-a-meeting-ninja/If you're reading this blog then when you see a new book titled, How to be a Productivity Ninja, it catches your attention.And that's exactly what happened to us: So I snagged a copy (get your copy here) from Graham and the Think Productive team, where I found an entire section dedicated to Making Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:00:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/reinventing-teleconferencing-with-the-double/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/reinventing-teleconferencing-with-the-double/Back in the mid 90's my family received an odd gift from a close family friend - a video phone. He worked at AT&T at the time. He'd snagged of one of their new demo video phones to play around with when he quickly realized Problem #1: Video phones were worthless if no one else had one. It's eTue, 14 Aug 2012 09:19:00 GMTBusiness TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-add-agendas-tags-to-google-calendar-meeting-invites/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-add-agendas-tags-to-google-calendar-meeting-invites/We've been asked a few times recently how to add Tags and Agendas to meetings in Google Calendar. Sounds like a perfect topic for a blog post. Why Add a Plan in Google Calendar? Sure you can add tags & agendas directly in Less Meeting. Do this in Google Calendar when you create your invite, thoWed, 01 Aug 2012 18:03:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/looking-for-less-meeting-ipad-beta-testers/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/looking-for-less-meeting-ipad-beta-testers/It's almost here. We're putting the finishing touches on the Less Meeting iPad app and will start beta testing it soon. And not long after that we'll releasing it to all of you. Can't wait that long though? Or just want to be the first to check it out? We have a limited number of beta testing slotTue, 10 Jul 2012 14:44:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/your-meeting-could-be-worse/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/your-meeting-could-be-worse/It's Friday. Chances are you were in a meeting this week (or ten).Hopefully your meetings weren't as bad as this one though: Thanks from the folks over at BringTIM. Enjoy the weekend!Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:30:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-i-want-this-calendar-and-you-do-too/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-i-want-this-calendar-and-you-do-too/Last week a couple of us in the office caught up with one of our startup neighbors from down the street, James Martin.Whether you realized it or not you might have seen his awesome design work before at TripLingo or iamjamesmartin. In any case, among some good conversation and strong coffee he toldTue, 26 Jun 2012 14:23:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/train-your-users-so-they-keep-coming-back/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/train-your-users-so-they-keep-coming-back/Less Meeting does a ton of cool things. Did you know you can customize your meeting minutes with the exact colors & logo of your company? We tell you about as many - of these things - as we can. There's even an interactive tutorial to help make it easier to run better meetings. Yet if we told Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:23:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/getting-to-dos-to-to-done/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/getting-to-dos-to-to-done/Yep, I just went there. I couldn't help myself with that title.Seriously though, there's a real problem here. While over 63% of professionals create to-do lists, a paltry 11% actually finish the tasks they plan to do each day. Thanks LinkedIn via WSJ. photo via koalazmonkey Like we did lasTue, 05 Jun 2012 08:45:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/what-steve-jobs-taught-us-about-meetings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/what-steve-jobs-taught-us-about-meetings/We're getting pumped for the Less Meeting iPad app release.This got me thinking...what would Steve Jobs think about Less Meeting? Or even, what did Steve Jobs think about meetings in general? The Most Important Meetings Don't Happen in the Conference Room There's a few lessons we can take from him,Thu, 17 May 2012 13:12:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-face-to-face-meetings-are-still-critical-to-your-business/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-face-to-face-meetings-are-still-critical-to-your-business/I call it the 35,000 foot problem. It's that it's expensive...frustratingly expensive...to travel to a business meeting. After a flight, a night at a hotel, meals, and a few odds & ends, your meeting costs $1,000 before it's even started. Thankfully technology has solved the 35,000 foot probleTue, 08 May 2012 10:50:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/google-wants-you-to-have-better-meetings-too/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/google-wants-you-to-have-better-meetings-too/I remember years ago when I'd install a new software program - the first thing I'd do would be to comb the vast settings menus to tweak the program just to my liking. I'd spend hours figuring out all the intricacies of each program till I knew all the ins & outs. (Embarrassingly I enjoyed doingThu, 05 Apr 2012 15:25:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/what-were-working-on/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/what-were-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 tThu, 05 Apr 2012 15:13:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-mini-release-huddles-nested-agendas-and-more/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 NowThu, 22 Mar 2012 16:58:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/why-you-should-quit-praising-stand-up-meetings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 moFri, 02 Mar 2012 09:08:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-release-announcing-google-integration-and-other-great-updates/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 bFri, 24 Feb 2012 10:21:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/should-i-bring-my-laptop-to-your-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 youMon, 20 Feb 2012 10:42:00 GMTBusiness TipsMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/managing-the-meeting-hog/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:17:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-villains-the-meeting-parrot/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 enjoyinMon, 19 Dec 2011 16:29:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-villains-meet-head/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:46:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-villains-how-to-tell-if-someone-is-a-hijacker/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/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… wWed, 30 Nov 2011 11:11:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/tell-me-again-why-was-i-invited-to-this-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/tell-me-again-why-was-i-invited-to-this-meeting/Do you work with someone who is double-booked for multiple meetings every day? Can you hear them right now... complaining about how they never get anything done because they are in meetings all day? What keeps them from being able to manage their schedule? If you were in their shoes, what would yoTue, 15 Nov 2011 13:30:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/dissecting-the-meeting-frog/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/dissecting-the-meeting-frog/When you were in high school, if you took any sort of advanced biology courses, one of the projects you had was to dissect a frog.  I'm sure you remember it well... Your teacher gave you a live frog, you had to kill it by sticking a needle in the base of its neck.  Then there was a set of instructiMon, 07 Nov 2011 16:09:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/attendee-diet-trim-12-people-from-your-meeting-waistline-in-4-weeks/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/attendee-diet-trim-12-people-from-your-meeting-waistline-in-4-weeks/Have you ever found yourself sitting through a conference call with 20+ people when you were actually doing working instead of paying attention to the meeting? POP QUIZ - You get called on… but you were not paying attention.  What do you do: (A) Tell the moderator that you missed the question, ask Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:19:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/death-to-the-informational-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/death-to-the-informational-meeting/Al Pittampalli over at Work Awesome has started an interesting meeting edict: Cancel all further informational meetings! In an era of social media abundance, where so many rich methods of communication are everywhere (e-mail, recorded audio, recorded video, etc.) why are we still herding people toMon, 24 Oct 2011 21:52:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-feature-highlight-daily-digest-settings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-feature-highlight-daily-digest-settings/As we highlighted earlier in the week, we've just released a bunch of updates to LessMeeting.  Today we'd like to quickly detail one of those.Daily Digests for Your Attendees Previously you've been able to control a number of your own Daily Digest settings: how many Todos to include, how far forwardWed, 19 Oct 2011 14:04:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-release-better-outlook-performance-requested-features-and-google-apps-beta/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-release-better-outlook-performance-requested-features-and-google-apps-beta/We are very excited to announce that we are releasing a new version of LessMeeting today. This includes updates to both the Outlook plugin and the web app.Requested Features Our users have always had great ideas and suggestions about ways to improve LessMeeting. Here are some of the ones we have incMon, 17 Oct 2011 08:21:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/wanted-help-stop-these-meeting-villains/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/wanted-help-stop-these-meeting-villains/Look familiar?  You've probably dealt with one or more of these bad meeting suspects before.  Maybe we called them by different names or saw them in different forms, but either way we've all seen them. Putting Names To Faces They've interrupted your presentations, hijacked your discussions and plaFri, 07 Oct 2011 07:41:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/dont-andy-bernard-your-meeting-plan/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/dont-andy-bernard-your-meeting-plan/Did you catch the new season of The Office recently?  Season 8 has started and we find out that (drum roll, please...) Andy Bernard is the new regional manager for Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch. And already we can learn a thing or two from Andy.  Or rather, what not to do. Andy's Plan I'll setMon, 03 Oct 2011 17:54:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/2-new-great-web-conferencing-tools-and-theyre-free/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/2-new-great-web-conferencing-tools-and-theyre-free/Whether you're a traveling consultant or you work for a company that has multiple office locations, there's a good chance that you use conference calls for meetings. In the past you would get a conference dial-in number, send that to all of the participants,and then dial in the admin code yourself. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:06:00 GMTBusiness TipsGeneral ProductivityJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/were-not-alone-new-startups-agree-that-meetings-can-be-fixed/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/were-not-alone-new-startups-agree-that-meetings-can-be-fixed/As we’ve said before, LessMeeting was born out of a shared frustration with just how bad the meetings we’ve been in can be.  We tried to find a solution but didn’t see anything that helped our problem. At the time products mostly addressed what we call “The 35,000 Foot Problem”, or how to use technMon, 19 Sep 2011 15:15:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-hold-the-right-meeting-part-3/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-hold-the-right-meeting-part-3/Alright - time to wrap things up.  In the third and final post of this series, we'll look at Review Meetings and Sales Meetings.   Visit Part 1 to learn about Status and Decision Making meetings, and Part 2 to brush up on Planning and Operational Meetings. Type 5 - Review/Evaluation Meetings: ExaTue, 13 Sep 2011 21:51:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-hold-the-right-meeting-part-2/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-hold-the-right-meeting-part-2/In the first post of this series - https://lessmeeting.com/2011/08/how-to-hold-right-meeting.html - we looked at how to make sure you're not having the wrong meeting.  We began by breaking down two of the most common meeting types: Status Meetings and Problem Solving Meetings. Today we'll look at tThu, 08 Sep 2011 21:24:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-hold-the-right-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-hold-the-right-meeting/Meeting problems occur across all sorts of meeting types.   However, some problems are more prevalent in certain types of meetings.  In addition, we have found that not having a clear understanding of the type of meeting you are holding in the first place will magnify the problems you are likely to Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:48:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-cc-your-way-to-better-meetings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-to-cc-your-way-to-better-meetings/So you’ve signed up for LessMeeting and don’t know what to do next? You see a bunch of information about an Outlook plugin, but you don’t have Outlook! What are you supposed to do?Fortunately there are two alternatives to the Outlook plugin for generating meetings: CC or forward each of your calenTue, 26 Jul 2011 10:53:00 GMTMeeting TipsUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-key-performance-indicators/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-key-performance-indicators/At LessMeeting, we want you to be able to see what happened for any meeting at a glance: - Decisions: √ - Actions: √ - Notes: √ - Overall Quality: √So when we started hearing from customers that they wanted to take this further to the Key Performance Indicators they were reviewing in meetings, we toFri, 22 Jul 2011 11:28:00 GMTMeeting TipsUsing Less MeetingBlake Byrneshttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/please-stop-talking-6-tips-to-hush-a-talkative-meeting-attendee/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/please-stop-talking-6-tips-to-hush-a-talkative-meeting-attendee/We've all been there before.  You're trying to get through a meeting, and Bob (let's call him Bob), just will NOT stop talking.  It might be because Bob wants to sound smart, or he really thinks you aren't taking in his point about the TPS reports being redundant, but he just keeps rambling. So, tTue, 19 Jul 2011 08:50:00 GMTMeeting TipsBlake Byrneshttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-meeting-minutes/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-meeting-minutes/People want better meeting minutes! New users end up at LessMeeting from a variety of sources looking to solve a range of problems.  The two most common topics that bring the majority of traffic to our website are:   Preparing agendas before the meeting Writing minutes during the meeting SometThu, 30 Jun 2011 17:00:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/ending-meetings-early-maybe-not-always-a-good-thing/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/ending-meetings-early-maybe-not-always-a-good-thing/This week I met with my project team to try to diffuse an important issue. I scheduled a 30 minute meeting with the following agenda: Well, a few minutes in one of my colleagues asked, "Why don't we just do this...", an option that was not even thought of originally, but one that ultimately made thThu, 23 Jun 2011 14:30:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessons-learned-for-startup-user-signups/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessons-learned-for-startup-user-signups/Startup Sales 101 - Conversions For any web service based startup, sales are driven by 2 key factors: People visiting your site - You’ve got to get people to your site. Whether it's viral campaigns, one-on-one sales, online ads, or traditional marketing, people need to see your product or service.Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:59:00 GMTBusiness TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/simplifying-things-tutorial-and-moving-notes-release-2-3/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/simplifying-things-tutorial-and-moving-notes-release-2-3/"Can you give us a tutorial?"  "I'm having trouble moving notes around?" Once again you asked and we listened.  LessMeeting updates keep coming - here are two new features that we're excited to have rolled out over the holiday weekend.New Tutorial Feel like you’re not utilizing LessMeeting to its Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:45:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/better-meetings-better-life/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/better-meetings-better-life/We’ve talked a lot here at LessMeeting about how better meetings will save your company time & money. While those are great objectives in their own right, today we’re going to be selfish. It’s now time to talk about making your life better. “Work-Life Balance” is one of the familiar holy grailsTue, 17 May 2011 13:09:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/microsoft-bizspark-startup-of-the-day/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/microsoft-bizspark-startup-of-the-day/LessMeeting is proud to announce that we’ve been honored with the Microsoft BizSpark Startup of the Day! Brett Cooper, the COO and one of four co-founders of LessMeeting, shares his thoughts on LessMeeting, the Microsoft Azure platform, and more. Click here to read the full interview. We would likThu, 05 May 2011 15:07:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/send-minutes-from-outlook-nested-agendas-release-2-2/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/send-minutes-from-outlook-nested-agendas-release-2-2/New Release (2.2) You asked and we listened! The 2.2 update has a bunch of new features requested by LessMeeting users. Agenda Headers Headers, or sub-agenda items, are a great way to add talking points under a more generalized agenda item. For example, if one of your agenda items during a standup mMon, 18 Apr 2011 10:21:00 GMTFeatures UpdateBlake Byrneshttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-hidden-etiquette-of-meetings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-hidden-etiquette-of-meetings/It’s 3:30 and you glance down at your phone to check your schedule for the rest of the afternoon… Booked solid until 5pm (again). Not a lot a free time available to get work done between all these meetings. Do you constantly struggle with how to get work done with all of meetings you attend. Are yoWed, 09 Mar 2011 18:21:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-search-with-lessmeeting-release-2-1/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-search-with-lessmeeting-release-2-1/LessMeeting has rolled out a new release (version 2.1). There are over 30 updates and improvements, but the most noticeable new feature is the updated Meeting Page. The Meeting Page now includes a timeline search filter and advanced search live filters. The video below is a quick overview of the neMon, 07 Mar 2011 11:37:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/its-just-a-meeting-agenda/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/its-just-a-meeting-agenda/"It's just a meeting agenda", not long ago this short phrase sparked my interest. I began to think about the impact of meeting agendas (or lack thereof) on my companies productivity. Meeting studies show 63% of American meetings are run without an agenda. So the question is whether the 63% of meetinThu, 24 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/2-0-6-release-new-features-linking-instant-meeting-mark-private/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/2-0-6-release-new-features-linking-instant-meeting-mark-private/As some of our users have noticed, LessMeeting released a new version yesterday. LessMeeting 2.0.6 includes a number of changes and improvements that our users have asked for. We are really exited about these features and would love to hear your feedback on them or other feature ideas you have. LinkFri, 11 Feb 2011 10:43:00 GMTFeatures UpdateBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-35000-foot-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-35000-foot-meeting/We’re excited to announce the newest feature – the ability to attend and participate in meetings from 35,000 feet. Actually this isn’t a new feature, but it might be a first for LessMeeting.I was recently traveling to a client-site meeting and it was one of those days where there were fires to put oTue, 01 Feb 2011 08:22:00 GMTMeeting TipsUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/boycott-a-meeting-day/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/boycott-a-meeting-day/Jason Fried and the team at 37signals are working on an effort to make January 19th “Boycott a Meeting Day”. At first I loved the concept, but the more I started the think about it, the more I began to be troubled by the flaws in the concept of “boycotting meetings”. Here are a few stories I will usWed, 12 Jan 2011 21:18:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/making-meetings-more-expensive/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/making-meetings-more-expensive/Seth Godin writes in “Making meeting more expensive” about a meeting Fairie who would ensure that meetings are shorter and more effective by performing a few key tasks. Our favorites that he mentions are: Ensuring that every meeting has a clearly defined purpose, and accomplishes that purpose, then Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:44:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/happy-new-year-from-lessmeeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/happy-new-year-from-lessmeeting/The team here at LessMeeting would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. To help you get the year kicked off right, we have released a number of updated LessMeeting features. The following are key new features to help you run better meetings: Assigning Action Items to Multiple People There have beMon, 03 Jan 2011 15:26:00 GMTFeatures UpdateBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-presents-you-make-the-call/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-presents-you-make-the-call/"Recently we debated the most useful handheld device for driving meeting effectiveness and efficiency using LessMeeting. It was a split decision with half the team voting iPad and the other half voting iPhone.There are advantages and disadvantages to both and our team spent a great deal of time layiTue, 21 Dec 2010 11:50:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/templates-and-notifications/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/templates-and-notifications/Keep giving us more great ideas, and we'll keep building them! We just pushed an exciting upgrade to the Outlook plugin, with 4 notable new features: Agenda Templates Tag Suggestions Upcoming Meeting Notifications Improved Plugin Layout New Layout for the LessMeeting Outlook Plugin Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:08:00 GMTFeatures UpdateBlake Byrneshttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-etiquette-technology-in-meetings/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-etiquette-technology-in-meetings/Clickity, click, click, click…. Scroll wheel…. Click click…. This is the sound from the guy next to you frantically tapping away on his blackberry in the middle of the meeting.Is he checking his Facebook page, is he playing solitaire, or is he responding to an email that is critical to helping your Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:21:00 GMTMeeting TipsBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-deer-in-the-headlights-response/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-deer-in-the-headlights-response/I’ll admit it… I’m a serial multi-tasker, particularly in meetings, and especially in those that are conducted over conference call. Since I’m in a confessional mood, I’ll go one step further: I usually do a half-hearted job of each of the tasks on which I’m multiply focused. There are countless timWed, 08 Dec 2010 07:30:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-mascots/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-mascots/As a consultant, I work with many different clients. Each client and even teams within a client have distinct personalities. The anthropologist in me loves observing and then adopting the culture of the teams with whom I work. In one recent project, several weeks in, I was in a meeting where the disSun, 05 Dec 2010 22:24:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/its-a-team-sport/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/its-a-team-sport/We've heard from a lot of you that you wanted to combine the power of LessMeeting with a little bit of team management. After all, there's not much to gain from being a one man all-star team. Welcome to the first iteration of the LessMeeting Team Dashboard! As your team members join, you will be abThu, 02 Dec 2010 17:58:00 GMTFeatures UpdateBlake Byrneshttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-etiquette/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-etiquette/When to Invite / When to Attend How many times have you or someone you work with complained that you aren’t able to get any real work done because you’re always booked with back-to-back-to-back meetings all day long?We’ve all heard it countless times but what really drives me crazy is that when I aWed, 17 Nov 2010 15:38:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-update-a-focus-on-efficiency/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-update-a-focus-on-efficiency/Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:29:00 GMTFeatures UpdateJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/more-bang-for-the-buck/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/more-bang-for-the-buck/Great comment from McKinsey that solidifies the LessMeeting position that improved interaction among knowledge workers is the fastest and most cost effective means of increasing productivity. Quote from the McKinsey Quarterly: "Since knowledge workers spend half their time on interactions, our reseTue, 14 Sep 2010 14:07:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-and-web-conferencing/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/lessmeeting-and-web-conferencing/Here at LessMeeting we often get asked how our product compares with web conferencing solutions like WebEx or GoToMeeting. The answer is that LessMeeting and web conferencing tools are two different categories of tools aimed at solving two distinct problems. A web conferencing product allows you toThu, 09 Sep 2010 17:24:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/rise-of-the-knowledge-worker-removing-productivity-bottlenecks/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/rise-of-the-knowledge-worker-removing-productivity-bottlenecks/What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration For some time now LessMeeting has trumpeted a concept which this article so aptly points out. Workforce productivity can no longer be measured with manufacturing output numbers alone, the workforce and the definition of workforce prodWed, 18 Aug 2010 10:33:00 GMTGeneral ProductivityJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-3-billion-meetings-per-year-waste-time-money-and-productivity-in-the-enterprise-knowledge-is-social/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/how-3-billion-meetings-per-year-waste-time-money-and-productivity-in-the-enterprise-knowledge-is-social/How 3 Billion Meetings Per Year Waste Time, Money and Productivity in the Enterprise Knowledge Is Social Great article to support LessMeetings position that poorly run meetings are costing everyone time and money. In addition to the loss of an organizations time and treasure the Microsoft survey shoTue, 17 Aug 2010 14:44:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-recurring-meeting-feature-release/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-recurring-meeting-feature-release/Did you forget what happened in last week's status meeting? Or forget to do an action item before today's daily status meeting? Based on feedback from beta Users we have released some cool new recurring meeting features to make sure that never happens again. Your online meeting space now links all aSun, 11 Jul 2010 15:10:00 GMTFeatures UpdateRichard Makersonhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-feature-release/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/new-feature-release/We're excited to show off some of the new features we just released:Revised Meeting Player Our 'Meeting Player' got an upgrade so you can always see it on the page. We were getting some feedback that it was too easy to forget about it after you started the meeting. So now it floats at the bottom ofMon, 10 May 2010 08:11:00 GMTFeatures UpdateRichard Makersonhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-minutes-template-generator/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meeting-minutes-template-generator/How Do You Take Notes? Fact: Everyone has different styles and preferences for running meetings and taking notes. This is true even within the Less Meeting team. Some take notes electronically, some go old school with pen & paper, and there are many of us who use some combo in between. My prefeFri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:00 GMTMeeting TipsUsing Less MeetingBrett Cooperhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/do-you-like-meetings-as-much-as-we-do/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/do-you-like-meetings-as-much-as-we-do/LessMeeting is participating in the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) / Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Business Launch competition. The purpose of the Business Launch is to support economic development in Georgia by encouraging and supporting the creation and growth of new companies that willTue, 20 Apr 2010 14:24:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingRichard Makersonhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-22-minute-meeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/the-22-minute-meeting/Have you heard of the 22 Minute Meeting? I recently saw an Ignite presentation by Nicole Steinbok that is dead on with what we’re trying to do here at LessMeeting. Instead of just regurgitating what Nicole said, check out her presentation for yourself below. And since it’s an Ignite presentation, itMon, 19 Apr 2010 17:10:00 GMTMeeting TipsJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/meetings-are-the-suck/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/meetings-are-the-suck/Seriously, aren’t they? Stop and take a moment to think about the last meeting that you walked out of feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, relaxed……still thinking? Yet they’re a part of our culture so like it or not you can’t just go cold turkey and quit meetings altogether. This is why we’re here. (photSun, 04 Apr 2010 13:38:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingJeffrey Steinkehttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/startup-atlanta-onstage-jeff-steinke-of-lessmeeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/startup-atlanta-onstage-jeff-steinke-of-lessmeeting/LessMeeting's Jeff Steinke at Startup Atlanta.Source: Friendly Human ProductionsThu, 01 Apr 2010 14:44:00 GMTUsing Less MeetingRichard Makersonhttps://lessmeeting.com/blog/welcome-to-lessmeeting/https://lessmeeting.com/blog/welcome-to-lessmeeting/Thanks for visiting the LessMeeting blog! We’ll use this forum to talk about: Approaches for meetings Different tips and tricks we’ve learned for overcoming meeting pitfalls Software to make your meetings better New features we’re building We’re looking forward to sharing our experiences, and Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:12:00 GMTFeatures UpdateBlake Byrnes