#meetings (10 links)
Unblah is a little "meeting-buddy"-app that helps you...
* Keep track of how long you've been speaking, * Catch yourself before you talk too much, or too little * Develop a better sense of timing
- It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings martinfowler.com
Via tomtaylor.
- Cisco Spark notes.ciscospark.com
So what happens in those meetings? Are they brainstorming earth-shattering new ideas? Are they inventing new products? Why are they getting paid to join so many of them? [...] Let’s take a look at some of those meetings: Strategy reviews, deep dives, virtual coffee breaks, quarterly off-sites, monthly get-togethers, director summits, leadership meetings, etc.
- Let's meet and work – places to freelance around London letsmeetandwork.com
- Rands In Repose: How to Run a Meeting randsinrepose.com
There are two useful types of meetings: alignment and creation. Briefly, alignment meetings are tactical communication exchanges that rarely dive into the strategic. These are fine meetings that have a weekly cadence, and while there are lots of ways to screw up these meetings, their tactical repetition often keeps them on the rails. Creation meetings — diving into solving a hard problem — involve, well, more creativity. Each hard problem requires a unique solution, and finding that solution is where creation meetings can go bad.
- Meet With Approval meetwithapproval.com
Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone and keep track of who is coming
Beautiful. Need an iPhone version.
Via russelldavies.
- londonsocialmediacafe wiki / Free and Open Spaces in London londonsocialmediacafe.pbwiki.com
This is just a list of free and open spaces in London, places where smallish groups might congregate to do something, like talk, understand things better, make plans, organise other things.