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How to Host an Effective Virtual Meeting

By Michel-Adrien Sheppard

Leslie Wolf of the California Digital Library has written a quick point-by-point guide to how to organize smooth-running virtual meetings:

We spend our days attending lots of meetings, yet the well-managed meeting stands out as a rare gem. It?s not easy to run a good meeting, and in our increasingly virtual world it?s even harder to run an effective virtual meeting. But it?s a skill worth practicing, and your teammates will thank you for it.

The author provides a number of suggestions for what organizers should do before, at, during and after the meeting.

And here is Month Python’s John Cleese in a trailer for the training video aptly titled Meetings, bloody meetings. Just thought I would throw that in.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).