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Best PowerPoint Alternative?
Creating dazzling presentations for clients, business meetings, or even job interviews doesn't mean you have to shell out for Microsoft Office. There are plenty of free options, or other paid...
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Five Best PowerPoint Alternatives
When you need to create an interesting and engaging presentation for your boss, new clients, or a job interview, you have plenty of options for tools to get the job done. Plus, even though it's the...
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Most Popular PowerPoint Alternative: Keynote
Creating an interesting, informative, and elegant presentation or slideshow for a company meeting or job interview doesn't have to be difficult, and you don't have to lock yourself into Microsoft...
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Best Meeting Minutes Service?
Meetings are the bane of many an office worker's existence. They suck up time, and because everyone inevitably forgets what happened, they lead to follow-up meetings to discuss the same things. Well,...
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Five Best Meeting Minutes Services
Everyone who works in an office has to deal with meetings. Depending on who's leading them and the tools they use, they can be boring, ego-driven time-wasters where little gets accomplished, or they...
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Most Popular Meeting Minutes Service: Microsoft OneNote
There are dozens of web services and special tools designed to help you make the most of the meetings you have to attend or organize, whether it's at work, a community group, or for a volunteer...
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Co-Meeting Is Google Wave-Inspired Group Collaboration Tool
Remember Google Wave? We still do, and depending on who you ask, it was either a collaboration tool that was ahead of its time, or a complicated tool with no single defined purpose. Either way, if you...
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Meetings.io Creates Great-Looking Video Chats in Minutes, No Sign-Ups Required
Want to get a few people in side-by-side video chat, but don't want to set everybody up with Skype, video conference software, or a Google+ Hangout? Head to Meetings.io, create a room, and give your...
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Find a Solution to Your Common Productivity Problems
With approximately a gazillion apps, articles, and other resources to help us increase our productivity, it isn't easy figuring out which is the best tool. Simply Business' five interactive flowcharts...
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UberConference Keeps Track of Your Crowded Conference Calls (And We've Got...
Conference calls are a pain, and it's a bit crazy that in the year 2012 we're still trying to keep track of who said what, let alone remember who everyone is. UberConference is a new service that aims...
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Decline Meetings Whenever Possible to Help Maintain a Work-Life Balance
Maintaining a good work-life balance is often hard enough on its own, but Harvard Business Review suggests that extraneous meetings are one of the reasons many people get kicked into the 60 work week....
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Stop Working All Those Long Hours
"He's one of my best employees. He always puts in ten-hour days, sometimes much more." Is this how your boss judges you and your colleagues? Probably yes, according to a 2010 study published in Human...
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Meetings.io Adds Screen Sharing and File Trading to Easy Video Meetings
Meetings.io, the super-easy, no-sign-in-required video meeting site, has added screen sharing and file sharing to their video chat service. Given those were the only two features we thought were...
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How to Take a Conference Call Without Driving Everyone Else Crazy
You would think that with so many video conferences and conference calls happening in offices around the world every day, we'd all have this down pat by now. Oh no, we don't: conference calls are some...
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Schedule “In Days” and “Out Days” to Get Your Calendar Under Control
If your schedule is getting away from you, consider scheduling "in days" where you're in the office all the time and focus on your to-dos, and "out days," where you run errands, meet clients, or...
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Avoid Taking Notes in a Meeting by Simply Snapping a Picture into Evernote
Meetings are boring and tedious. Taking copious notes generally doesn't help matters too much. Want to avoid doing a little extra busywork? Evernote can interpret notes for you from a photo. More »
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Sunrise Starts Your Day with an Email Digest of Your Appointments, Events,...
Sunrise is a new web service that sends you an email every morning full of important information: your friends' birthdays, your meetings and calendar appointments, and information about the people...
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CaptureNotes Offers Audio Recording and Flagged Notes, Syncs with Dropbox and...
iOS: Taking notes on the iPad can be a pretty painful process, but CaptureNotes 2 makes it much easier. Colored flags for different notes, audio recording while you type or write on-screen, photo...
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Functional, Productive Meetings Require Constraints
Few people bear a smile when it's time for a meeting because most of us have spent time in unproductive ones that seem to have no end. But they can be useful and productive, so long as you take the...
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How a Whiteboard Helped a Terrible Delegator Keep a Team On-Task
Last week a whiteboard saved a conference. Or, at least, a whiteboard saved me from myself and my dramatically underdeveloped delegation skills. By forcing myself to fill every inch of space, to act...
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