iOS: If your office is plagued by lengthy meetings that drag on while everyone has to have their say, MeetingCalc is the mobile app for you. Start the timer, set the hourly rate of everyone in the room combined, and the app will keep a running log of how much the meeting is costing the company as the minutes tick past. More »
MeetingBurner is a new video conferencing service that offers video, voice and web conferencing with all of the features you would expect from a more expensive commercial service for free. If you host small meetings or work at an organisation where there’s no company-sponsored video conferencing solution and no budget to buy accounts to one, MeetingBurner is worth a look. More »
If you work at a company with employees in offices around the globe, or you work in a small company but want to collaborate with others, you need a service that will let you connect with your team, share documents and collaborate. Here are five of the best services to conduct productive online meetings, based on your nominations. More »
Dear Lifehacker, I have to sit through meetings every day. Some of them last for hours. They are boring. They are unnecessary. They are mandatory. By the time I’m done I’ve lost my will to work. What can I do to keep myself from dying a slow death at a conference table? More »
Meetings are seemingly impossible to start on time; whether it’s a few minutes or 15, people are always shuffling in late. Time Management Ninja suggests a way to get more punctual meetings: give the last person a task no one wants. More »
For those of us with the unique pleasure of scheduling meetings with multiple attendees, Google Calendar just got a bit easier to use. Yesterday, Google added “suggested times” to Google Calendar appointments, or times when everyone you’ve invited to the meeting will be able to attend, based on their own calendars. More »
Regardless of whether you lead meetings or simply attend them, they can be productivity killers and time-wasters. LessMeeting is a new web service that wants to make it easier to organise meetings, build an agenda, and keep track of action items and discussion topics to send out after the meeting. More »
If you’ve ever had to lead a meeting, you know what it’s like to have attendees who come in late without a copy of the agenda, or don’t show up at all. With Meetin.gs, you can make sure everyone’s at the right meeting at the right time, and distribute minutes and to-dos when you’re finished. More »
