Every time you hold an important meeting, you should create a proper meeting agenda before the beginning of the meeting. This is not just a stuffy old formality, it is a way of keeping your meetings short, streamlined, efficient and driven, all of which are important if you want to really want to get things moving in your direction. Step 1: Explain the purpose of your meeting in fewer than 4 sentences Start by giving…

Here @Solid we strive to change the way people meet, work and collaborate during meetings by prepping attendees before a meeting, helping keep things focused on the agenda and providing actionable summaries only minutes afterward. Oh, and it works with Google Apps, Evernote & Slack and some other cool apps you use everyday. The only way to run effective and actionable meetings is to follow these 7 essential rules. So why don’t you use this manifest to decorate your meeting room and widespread…

Tons of articles are published every week about workflow automation, time optimization and productivity at work. At Solid, we love digging through all that content and extracting the best every day. Read below how Mattel fired their precedent CEO due to ineffective meetings. Discover all the tips and tricks that we have gathered for you to run 100% productive meetings. Getting serious about your meeting problem This is NOT a joke. Do you know the…

What if we told you, you’ll be able to synch Solid to the apps you use daily? Awesome, right? Well, we’re thrilled to present you 2 brand new integrations to Solid today: Slack and Evernote. Also, don’t forget to sign up to Solid’s beta if not done yet, we’re letting in new users every week. Solid lets you take notes before and live during the meeting, and mark them as tasks, decisions and open issues. After the…

We work hard at Wisembly to optimize business meetings. Practically every time we develop a new feature, we imagine a way to measure it. Indeed, it is key for us to have a detailed vision on a user’s or a team’s habits before we can give pertinent advise to run more productive and actionable meetings. Our new product, Solid is the solution to 100% productive meetings ; you just synch it to your agenda and get access…

Here @Wisembly we strive to change the way people meet, work and collaborate during meetings. We come from a Symfony2 / Backbone.js / socket.io world with our event / training / conf call products, and when it came to thinking about our next product, Solid (request beta access here!), we slowed down things a bit and looked for a different and a better way to manage our frontend application. We looked at Angular.js and Ember.js…

How many hours have you lost in unproductive meetings? Do you think this could have been avoided? Definitely! At Solid, we make your life easier and help you run away from endless meetings. I bet you want to spend less time in meetings, come join the Solid Beta

Over the last several years, a bunch of applications have tried to kill off the idea of going to meetings. 37Signals, Slack and Jive have all promised a world where meetings would be a thing of the past, completely replaced by real-time, virtual interactions. Sorry, but that’s not going to happen. Increased information flowing around businesses means more communications within teams. Thanks to these brilliant tools, most employees now have access to more information than…