Scheduling success: Four tech tricks for planning meetings

Let’s face it: Despite all the technology at our fingertips, scheduling and planning meetings is still a pain in the neck. Nobody can agree on where to meet or when. When meetings do get scheduled, people forget or show up unprepared. You’d think we could do better.

Using your Mac, iPhone and the Web, of course, you can, but you have to use them right. Here are four tricks I’ve learned that use technology to plan meetings better.

Automate the meeting confirmation

Quite often, meetings I attend are set far in advance. This sometimes results in plans changing or people forgetting. I try to avoid these problems by sending out meeting confirmations the day before. Every day, I look at any meetings I’ve got set for the next day and send out emails to all the participants.

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