Likelihood to Recommend Boardable is definitely worth the cost. It’s extremely valuable and there are new tools and updates being released all the time. Their staff reaches out for feedback and is easy to reach. It is a great resource for managing our board meetings and being effective, supportive, and interactive for our Trustees. I never want to waste our board members' time and Boardable helps us deliver an outstanding and engaging board experience.
Read full review ActiveMeetings works well when you want to conduct pre-scheduled meets with a clear agenda and want to get inputs from stakeholders to close things quickly. It's not really so useful for general chit-chat or catchups with teammates as the extra features aren't useful in the scenario. It also has some friction when doing cross-org collaboration.
Read full review Pros Organize and execute Board & Committee meetings through the "Meetings" which allows you to build your agenda, attach documents, create minutes, and send out a summary of the meeting once completed. Provide a very versatile Document Center where you can archive all types of documents for current and future use. Polls, Tasks, & Decision-making features. These tools allow for broadcasting to members at large or to committees important information to be acted upon. It also keeps a record of responses. Reports--this is an area we are just beginning to appreciate since it provides overviews of board member engagement and progress made within committees and the board at large. People Directory--an invaluable tool for orienting new board members to current members as well as allowing for board members to contact each other. Goal Setting: this is a tool we are just starting to use. It allows for the tracking of progress for board projects and/or fundraising. Paula Franetti Accident/Injury Recovery Coach | Lifestyle Assessment Expert | Behavioral Change Specialist
Read full review Setting agenda for the meets Getting real-time inputs from meeting participants Seamless collaboration during meets Read full review Cons Meeting scheduling can be wonky with polling for a date A lot of the most valuable features are at a higher price point beyond the basic package. Opportunity to improve the minutes builder Read full review The UI interface could be much cleaner The cost of the software is high considering the value many free softwares provide Not everyone has ActiveMeetings so cross-organization collaboration has some friction Read full review Likelihood to Renew If it was solely up to me it would be a no-brainer, however, it has to be a board decision.
Paula Franetti Accident/Injury Recovery Coach | Lifestyle Assessment Expert | Behavioral Change Specialist
Read full review Usability Boardable is very user-friendly, easy to manage, and building agendas and setting up meetings is functionally easy.
Read full review Support Rating Very responsive, but only through a ticketing system at this time.
Read full review Implementation Rating Boardable provides ample videos, information, and support to enable new members to learn how to navigate the platform. However, not all members are motivated to learn a new software system. Lessons learned with onboarding new members is to do a Spotlight meeting with them that utilizes as many of the popular features our board uses so that they shorten their learning curve. As with anything new, "practice makes permanent!"
Paula Franetti Accident/Injury Recovery Coach | Lifestyle Assessment Expert | Behavioral Change Specialist
Read full review Alternatives Considered The main issue is this platform is designed and geared toward nonprofits vs. adapting a for-profit board portal. The second is the price point, while it has gone up significantly, is still in line with nonprofit budgets.
Read full review ActiveMeetings offers much more power in terms of setting the course for the meeting, getting real-time inputs from stakeholders, and closing things on the go compared to Zoom or
Google Meet . However the interface of ActiveMeetings isn't as clean as intuitive as it is with Zoom, and especially with
Google Meet .
Read full review Return on Investment Allows for a quicker turnaround in getting docs to board members. Provides a one-stop location for all board proceedings and documents. Pricing plans for getting up and running are easily among the best available with similar tools providers. Read full review Meetings have become much more meeting with ActiveMeetings prompting for an agenda every time you set a meet You can club all relevant documents for the meet in one single doc which is really useful to avoid clutter and confusion This is still a hindrance when collaborating with people from a different organisation Read full review ScreenShots