Govenda vs. Wolters Kluwer ActiveMeetings

BoardBookit is well suited for the following scenarios: - Brown Act compliance - Board members who attend meetings remotely It is less appropriate for the below scenarios: - Situations where you don't need a formal board meetings - Board members who are not tech-savvy

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Document Management -- very easy to add attachments and push out
• Meeting Scheduling -- very easy to add meetings and get RSVPs to make sure we have a quorum
• Historical data -- storing of historical documents and meeting minutes is super easy.

Incentivized

• Setting agenda for the meets
• Getting real-time inputs from meeting participants
• Seamless collaboration during meets

Incentivized

• Voting -- there should be a mechanism for board members to vote through the system
• Minutes -- meeting minutes should automatically be generated based on attendance and online voting
• Public Facing Page -- we need to publish our agendas and minutes on our website. I would like it if there was a way we can put links on our website to BoardBookit.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

Other than initial setup, we haven't really needed support. I do wish that they would roll out more features.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Board meetings are more organized.
• It makes me, as the Executive Director, present a professional image during board meetings.
• BoardBookit works particularly well when board members are not all in the same room for meetings.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized