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! with a Huddle Sometimes meetings happen […]
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 model though. You see, each time your antivirus software […]
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 below… Google Apps Integration with LessMeeting We’ve […]
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 were too busy hacking away on your Blackberry. […]
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 competence. In basketball, ball hogs take too many of […]
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 together to hear policy updates? Meeting for the purpose of […]
