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So You Took Notes during Your Meeting - Now What?

Taking some kind of notes at every one of your meetings is an incredibly useful tool to help you stay on top of things - but with a bit more effort you go from a simple set of notes to a tool that helps out your entire team!

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Refinement Meetings | What they are and how they help

Refinement meetings can save your team time by ensuring all of your tasks are well thought out beforehand. But what goes into a good refinement meeting, and how useful are they really?

Early Career Advice: Look like a pro in your meetings!

Starting in a new role at a large company is exciting but stressful, and right after getting settled in you might find yourself looking for ways to stand out from your peers to help further develop your career. Though nothing stands out like great work, there are several smaller actions

Overhauled Settings and Preferences, Transcription Download, and more!

Our newest release has a number of user experience improvements and additional features that we are excited to share with you! Our main focus with this release was on the settings/preferences experience alongside improvements to our transcription features. A number of the features that we created came from your

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Should you Transcribe your Meetings?

Transcription for your meetings is a great tool that can greatly increase your efficiency, but it can also lead to unwieldy minutes. In this article, we take a look at the best way to use transcription in your everyday meetings.

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UX Improvements, Instant Actions, and Bug Fixes

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been cooking up a big release full of requested UX improvements, some new features, and more!

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How spending 5 minutes before your next meeting could save your team hours every week

Spending 5 extra minutes to save your team hours every week seems like a no-brainer right? Here we look at how precise agendas and time-boxing can help save you time at every meeting.

Save time writing minutes by identifying the kind of meeting you're dealing with

Taking minutes tailored to the kind of meeting you are running can not only produce more effective minutes but can also save you time and effort. In this article, we discuss some key differences in minute taking styles depending on the kind of meeting you are attending.

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Hindsight 2020

2020 was an unexpected year, but we made the most of it, introducing dozens of new features. In this recap, we'll briefly recount what we achieved this past year and announce what 2021 holds for Knowtworthy!

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Multi-lingual transcription support and minutes PDF download

In this changelog we discuss support added for real-time transcription and file upload transcription for German, Italian, Dutch, and Russian, along with PDF downloads.

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Closed Beta Changelog #5

Since our last post we have added some major new features, quality of life improvements, and bug fixes. As mentioned in our previous post, we completely reworked our onboarding flow, making it easier than ever to get started and get to your first meeting!

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Closed Beta Week 4 Changelog

Hello Knowtworthians! This past week we completed several additional bug fixes and built requested inbox-admin features.You can now see, at a glance, how your team is moving along and what action items are outstanding.

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Closed Beta Week 3 Changelog

Hello Beta Testers! With your helpful insights, we made a number of bug fixes along with changes to how invites work for organizations and teams. Also, you can now sort your meetings directly from the dashboard.

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Closed Beta Week 2 Changelog

Hello! After another week of hard work, we have fixed a second batch of usability issues and bugs found by you, our testers, we are back with another changelog. Learn about our user experience testing, meeting video conferencing and more!

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Mastering 7 Common Workplace Meetings [Part 2]

Welcome to part two of our deep dive into the 7 most common kinds of meetings and how you can master each to perform better in your workplace. In this article we will be discussing Standups, Refinements, and Retrospectives.

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Closed Beta Week 1 Changelog!

After our first week of Beta testing we identified and corrected numerous usability issues and included a few new features including a better real-time transcription model. Please see the changelog below.

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Introducing the Knowtworthy Closed Beta! 🎉

Today we are thrilled to announce that Knowtworthy is officially going into closed Beta! Our team has worked very hard to get this release to you and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the new platform and all of the changes we have made since the Alpha.

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Mastering 7 Common Workplace Meetings [Part 1]

Not all meetings are created equal. Some meetings are more structured, some are less. Some have more attendees, some have fewer. This article investigates how to effectively run all-hands meetings, engineering meetings, product meetings, and interdisciplinary team meetings.

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The Dangers of Weekly Meetings | Determining the Purpose and Objectives of your Meeting

Meetings are nearly ubiquitous, without them, companies would struggle to align their employees on valuable projects. But so many of our meetings provide little value and waste time. This article demonstrates the dangers of weekly meetings and gives tips on good meeting purposes and objectives.

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The Key to Improving your Meetings: The 5-Minute Feedback Process

Meetings take up an incredible amount of an employee's productive time, on top of costing thousands of dollars. A 5-minute ROTI feedback system aims to give you the tools you need to consistently improve your meetings.

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Future Fest Demo and Beta Update!

On October 1st Knowtworthy demoed at Future Fest, an annual tech festival showcasing the latest and greatest in Toronto Tech. Throughout the evening, we had the opportunity to meet a ton of people who all agreed that, yes, meetings suck, but we know how to make them better.

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Sentiment Analysis for Teams, Meeting Security, and the Next Beta | True Blue Expo

In this blog post, we dive into the thought process behind sentiment analysis in a team setting and will explain how information security works at Knowtworthy before announcing the release of our next beta!

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The Dos and Don’ts of Meeting Minute Templates

Unproductive meetings happen all the time, sometimes because people arrive unprepared and sometimes because people don’t contribute. But a sure-fire way of reducing the productivity of people’s workflow is to take bad minutes or take no minutes at all.

Study Strategies Survey Results and Analysis

As a company interested in all things note taking, we sent out a survey in early May to find out more about how students prepare for assessments and what kind of role note taking plays in their studies. From a sample size of 47, we received interesting results across all