Meetings are important. And besides the fact that once in a while everybody's fed up with them, well-prepared meetings provide important results and momentum. The challenge is to encourage well-preparedness and only to meet face-to-face when the outcome gains from it and the time and travel is worth it. Some organizations and networks are baseless or spread around the globe, making face-to-face meetings costly. An easy accessible place to share information and carry out conversations is a good base. Either it's a way to collaborate without having to meet physically or it is a way to exchange material or agendas and making sure everyone's on the same page cutting down on meeting time.

Not all face-to-face meetings have been properly prepared

Yesterday, Anders Pollas and I made a presentation for members of the network of R&D directors within Dansk Industri (the Confederation of Danish Industries)

The presentation was entitled "Effective dialogue and knowledge sharing across organisational and geographical boundaries". The event was hosted by Damcos , a Danish company delivering marine tank management products for the ship, oil and gas industries worldwide, recently acquired by Emerson and was followed by a lovely dinner at Hotel Kirstine.

Jon Froda and I had the pleasure of doing a presentation at an IKI-event hosted by Crossroads Copenhagen earlier this week.

The presentation was entitled Corporate agility: Social media in organisations and companies and was followed by a one hour hands-on OurHoist session.

The slides reflect a quick run-through of social media in general and some questions to ask yourself if you want a suitable platform for communicating and refining knowledge in teams. Slides are mostly in Danish.