As public sector organizations continue to turn to software solutions to help increase their efficiency, accessibility and transparency, the terminology used to describe such offerings can often be confusing and can make very different types of product sound wrongly...
Even for those who don’t have a reason to take advantage of it on a regular basis, most people who have watched broadcast or cable television are familiar with closed captioning – the text-based visual representation of a program’s audio elements. While typically...
As we have discussed in past blog posts, there are significant differences between agenda management and meeting management. While agenda management can save you and your team a lot of time, effort and headaches when preparing materials prior to meetings, a true...
Despite the fact that most people use cloud-based services every day – from online banking and shopping to photo sharing and even filing their income taxes – many public sector organizations that have historically stored their documents on their own servers still have...
A Data Sovereignty Primer for Meeting Management Users Concern amongst organizations and individuals about data privacy and security is at an all-time high. Hardly a week goes by without new revelations of data breaches, malicious hacks, governments spying on...
The technology options available to modern public sector organizations are virtually limitless. Each may have the ability to improve user efficiency for their intended purpose, but when you start combining them, the benefits can end up buried beneath excessive...
From a technology perspective, today's councilors and board members are a transitional group. Five years ago, few public sector organizations had smart devices and applications for board members to use during meetings, and five years from now, such organizations will...
In today's rapidly-evolving business landscape, corporate acquisitions and mergers between companies are frequent occurrences. Such consolidation is particularly common in the software industry, where the financial barriers to developing a product and bringing it to...
Video has long been an ideal medium for enhancing the transparency of public sector entities and bolstering engagement with their constituents. By enabling citizens to remotely watch live broadcasts or recordings of council, board and committee meetings, allows wider...
