[sthlm reference] : Wiki and Google on Meeting and Meetings
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(1) What is a meeting?
In a meeting, two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a (usually) predetermined topic such as business or community event planning, often in a formal setting.
In addition to coming together physically (in real life, face to face), communication lines and equipment can also be set up to have a discussion between people at different locations, e.g. a conference hall, or an e-meeting.
In organizations, meetings are an important vehicle for personal contact. They are so common and pervasive in organizations, however, that many take them for granted and forget that, unless properly planned and executed, meetings can be a waste of time and resources.
(2) How do I set-up a meeting?
Whether you're a newcomer to meetings or a seasoned pro, the Effective Meetings resource center offers hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation. Plus, our sage advisor, the Meeting Guru, will help solve your meeting dilemmas.
Whether you're a novice planner or a veteran, this Meetingsnet Survivalguide compilation of must-read articles is your meeting planning resource. Just click on the headline below to link to our helpful, how-to features.
(3) MPI - Meeting Professionals International
Professional membership organization for corporate, association, and independent meeting planners.
(4) The World Clock Meeting Planner
Need to make a call to someone far away? Need to arrange a videoconference, telephone- or net-based meeting with several people spread around the globe? This utility should help you find a convenient time, so that no one has to be up during the middle of the night.
(5) Meetings, Manners and Civilization. The development of modern meeting behaviour by Wilbert van Vree
This is the first account of how meeting rules and behaviour have deloped. It takes an historical approach, from medieval meetings to meetings of the future, and provides a volume of comparative research on the development of meeting behaviour; that is, human behaviour during councils, assemblies, parliaments, business conferences, and other meetings (both formal and informal), held to discuss and arrange a common future.
Contents:
Part I: Introduction
1 Meeting Behaviour and Civilization
2 The Development of the Concept of Meeting
Part II: Meetings in Military-Agrarian Societies
3 The Militarization and Demilitarization of Meetings
4 The Courtization of Meetings
PART III: Meetings During the Transition from an Agrarian to an Industrial Society
5 The Emergence of a Protestant Meeting Order
6 The Formation of the First Meeting Class in Europe
PART IV: Meetings in Industrializing and Industrialized Societies
7 Development and Spread of Parliamentary Manners
8 The Professionalization of Meeting Manners
Epilogue: Changing Meeting Behaviour as an Aspect of Civilizing Processes
