Meetings 7 Tips to Increase the Productivity of your Meetings as a New Team Member As an employee, you may think that you should only focus on your assigned tasks. But there can be many benefits with taking a step away from your work to learn about what others are doing. We'll explain these benefits, and also give tips on how you can learn more by attending outside team meetings.
Meetings 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.
Engineering GraphQL vs REST: Demonstrating the Difference with Real-World Examples GraphQL vs REST has recently sparked much debate in an attempt to decide: which one is better for your project? In this article, we take a deep dive into the benefits and drawbacks of both, to help you make the best decision for your project.
Engineering Transitioning our Streaming Microservice from NodeJS to Go When building our Audio Ingestion microservice, we found that NodeJS wasn't performant enough. Take a look at how we ended up solving the problem with Go.
Meetings 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.
Roadmap 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.
Roadmap 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!
Meetings How to Write an Effective Team Meeting Agenda The first place to look when trying to run more effective meetings is the agenda. An agenda sets the tone and the direction of a meeting while also laying out clear expectations for what the outcome of the meeting should be.
Artificial Intelligence Ways to use AI technology in your everyday life There are some basic software tools out there that, with a little creativity, can be used for many different tasks. This article explores using AI to automate speech-to-text and handwriting-to-text across everyday tasks.
Minutes 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.
Meetings The 10 Key Ingredients of a Successful Meeting In this article, we explore the 10 key ingredients that lead to consistently successful meetings. With meetings so commonplace, most professionals don't mind the occasional unproductive meeting. We look into the harm this lack of structure can cause and some helpful tips to get you on track.
Meetings Enabling “Impossible” Meetings It’s hard to make meetings great for everyone. In fact, the Harvard Review surveyed 182 senior managers from a wide range of industries and found that only 17% said meetings are generally productive uses of group and individual time.
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
