BoardEffect a Diligent Brand

Score8.6 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

What is BoardEffect a Diligent Brand?

BoardEffect, a Diligent brand, is an agile board management solution optimized for nonprofit, community healthcare, higher education and credit union organizations to deliver the right tools to drive more efficient, collaborative, and secure governance. Part of Diligent, a provider of modern governance solutions, BoardEffect boasts users among 55,000+ boards and communities, helping them access resources and information to meet the organization's most immediate challenges.

Categories & Use Cases

Board Management

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Screenshot of From surveys to polls to discussion groups, communication between board members is secured.

Screenshot of Create and disassemble ad hoc groups whenever needed. From executive searches to special event planning, the material is hosted on BoardEffect for as long as it is needed.

Screenshot of Approve board meeting minutes, policies, and other important documents using the approvals tool. Board members can review documents, make comments, and sign to approve.

Screenshot of From creating a board book in the book builder to annotating board meeting materials on a mobile device, online board books keep up with the board’s busy lifestyle.

Screenshot of Using the task tool, board members can set reminders to accomplish specific tasks and check the box once complete. BoardEffect administrators can also assign tasks and send reminders to help board members and executives stay on track.

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Screenshot of From surveys to polls to discussion groups, communication between board members is secured.

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using BoardEffect a Diligent Brand.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

26.3%

15 installations of 57

#2 most frequent

Educational Services

17.5%

10 installations of 57

#3 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

14.0%

8 installations of 57

Pros

Centralizing and organizing all board-related information
Streamlining the preparation and distribution of meeting materials
Providing granular access control for sensitive documents

Cons

Slow customer support response times
Challenges with consistent document formatting
Difficulties in updating existing materials

Cari Hokett

OKCMAR COO at OKCMAR (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use BoardEffect a Diligent Brand for our meeting management.

Pros

Agenda
Minutes
Reminders
Workrooms

Cons

I think there is room for improvement in BoardEffect a Diligent Brand with Attendance talking to minutes

Most Important Features

BoardEffect
Minutes
Polls/surveys

Return on Investment

All one location
Easy access for members

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

George Corser, PhD

Professor in Corporate at Saginaw Valley State University (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm the board secretary. I use BoardEffect for meeting documentation. The organization uses the overall Diligent system for a range of compliance documentation. The critical business problems are managing collaboration and authorization.

Pros

organizes board documents
allows granular permissions
provides repository for large documents

Cons

BoardEffect allowing board and CEO to be admins yet board still able to maintain documents confidential from CEO
document formatting for all Board Effect docs... that is, ensure all pdfs in board packet have consistent easy-to-read format
AI summary never works in BoardEffect. It's horrible in my opinion. We need it so it needs to be fixed.

Return on Investment

I have no measurements to answer this question

Usability

Other Software Used

ChatGPT

Verified User

Administrator in Marketing (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use BoardEffect, a Diligent Brand, to manage Board Meetings and agendas and to handle communications. It helps streamline communication and helps consolidate board materials for us, and it's easily editable.

Pros

Organized
Effective
Helpful

Cons

Trainings
Option for surveys to have a "as needed" option

Most Important Features

Event Creation
Board Communication messages

Return on Investment

Allowed us to monitor participation of Board Members logging in and viewing board books

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BoardEffect a Diligent Brand

Verified User

Manager in Corporate (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, I use BoardEffect a Diligent Brand for all governance meetings. Simplify and secure storage and notifications.

Pros

Building meeting materials
Reviewing materials
Storage of materials
Access
Sharing

Cons

Contribute time frames needs to be longer than 2 weeks

Most Important Features

Ease of access
Ease of building and sharing materials

Return on Investment

Saving of staff time

Usability

Dottie Schafer

Executive Assistant in Corporate at ThriveMore (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our Board members login to BoardEffect a Diligent Brand to gain access to all of their materials for quarterly meetings. I create different folders for them to find the information they need. Instead of me having to email many things to them, I can just post them to BoardEffect a Diligent Brand and they can each go there to view the materials. Also, I don't have to produce a hard copy book anymore. They each bring a laptop or tablet to the meeting and bring up their materials. Archived information is all available there too, eliminating any need to print anything out. Also, I don't have to project anything on a screen anymore because they all have it in front of them! Yay!

Pros

Houses all the information needed for meetings.
Holds all the older information so we can access it if needed.
It's fairly easy to use for all our members.
That it is portable is a great bonus!

Cons

I've had a few issues with customer service, but I think those have been ironed out now.
I do wish I could still re-set my user passwords, since it's all the information that I post, but I understand the why.
There are times I can't figure something out, and look in Help and just have to call Customer Service. I can't think of one specific thing, but I've found it hard to get help sometimes on what I need.
One time, I posted our board book on the event page, then someone changed something and I had to figure out how to get that book off and put the new one on. I finally did figure it out.

Return on Investment

It is saving me so much time that I do not have to mail or email materials to our members.
It is saving us money because we do not have to rent AV equipment at our meetings because people can look in BoardEffect a Diligent Brand on their laptop/tablet.
It's environmentally friendly! No paper!

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Who Buys & Uses BoardEffect a Diligent Brand

Most Frequent Users

Health Care and Social Assistance

Educational Services

Other Services (except Public Administration)

Most Frequent Users

Small Businesses

Mid-sized Companies

Enterprises

Most Frequent Users

United States of America

Canada

Australia

Most Frequent Users

Admin

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