Work Smarter with MeetingWizard
MeetingWizard Team Edition offers an affordable, online meeting scheduling solution that can be accessed
directly from your intranet or from users' desktops. For only pennies a day you can provide your users with access to MeetingWizard's
sophisticated meeting planning features. There are no downloads or software to install. Impress your colleagues, associates, partners and clients when
you invite them to your next meeting using the MeetingWizard system, complete with your logo and
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Unique Functionality
Place custom links on your corporate intranet that lead to your Team Edition application complete with customized logos, banners, and colors. All staff clicking through to use the system will see your custom version,
free of any third-party advertising. Even better, recipients of meeting requests will also see your custom version.
How Does it Work?
MeetingWizard Team Edition allows you to create links that lead to your custom version which you modify using a convenient
administration menu. The HTML links that are provided can be incorporated into websites, email messages, and in desktop shortcuts.
Even if you don't use the link to access the system, once you've tied your personal account to a Team Edition account,
your account will automatically default to that custom version every time you login.
Easy Administration
The account manager doesn't need to add everyone to the Team Edition version, the users will do that themselves
as they set up their accounts. This ensures the security and privacy of each separate account. Think
of it as a club that people can join or not. When they join the club, they get the same t-shirt that
everyone else has, but they keep their personal identity. Users can opt out of the Team Edition version at anytime,
or opt in if the account maximum allows. Most importantly, the administrator can delete anyone's access
to the Team Edition version. So, if a work colleague goes to a different department, they can keep their MeetingWizard
account, but they may opt to use a Team Edition version sponsored by the other department. That's part of the open
and flexible design of the system.
Why a Subscription?
MeetingWizard is designed to be an open system that allows anyone, anywhere
to use it. In that way it's no different than a search engine. We make the basic version of the system free so you can determine if it meets your basic requirements.
By upgrading to a subscription version, you get access to features that allow you to make MeetingWizard your own custom, private-label
service complete with user administration. MeetingWizard Team Edition is designed
to allow you to introduce MeetingWizard to your workplace with minimum risk, in a way that your colleagues
will trust, and use. We've built the trust of thousands of users since we
launched the service, and we know that many of those users will trust us to offer a valuable and compelling solution
that they'll be proud to share with their colleagues.
Technology
MeetingWizard is web-based software. All of the real work of
the application is done on our severs, and all data is securely stored there. We've built MeetingWizard
for speed, and we're always looking for ways to make it even faster. The system requires only that users
have access to e-mail and a browser. We keep the
technology and the interface as simple as possible so that even those who may not want to use the system
can't find an excuse!
You don't need to worry about upgrades with web-based software, we take care of that automatically.
What if we already use a group calendar system?
MeetingWizard integrates with calendar systems that recognize the iCalendar format. We also provide options
for integration with address book information from Microsoft Outlook and other contact managers.
What are some of the problems with group calendaring?
Conventional group calendaring systems are based on the idea that if everyone in a particular workgroup places their schedules online,
then all the organizer has to do is go online and find a date/time when everyone is available. Good in theory, bad in practice.
If just one person doesn't update their online schedule regularly, the system breaks down. And of course, human nature being what it is, no one really wants their complete schedule made public, much less to have someone else book their appointments for them. So, online schedules generally show less available time than people really have, and many people become mysteriously unavailable for early mornings and Friday afternoons. And just why is there that two-hour block around every lunch period?
It's not that people aren't busy; it's just a natural reaction in trying to control our schedules. Read on to see why MeetingWizard is a better alternative.
Why is MeetingWizard better than group calendaring?
First of all, it is completely web-based, allowing meetings or events to be set up with any group of people provided they have access to e-mail and a browser. Second, no one has to put up their schedule online, and each participant can use their own scheduling system to record their appointments. For example, I can use MeetingWizard to set-up the meeting or event, and then simply write the confirmed date in my day-timer, record it in on my Palm, or add it to my Outlook organizer.
That's one of the major advantages of MeetingWizard over systems like Microsoft's Outlook, or Lotus Notes. One of the other excellent features of MeetingWizard is the ability to propose multiple dates/times to a group of individuals, and to have their results collated in one place. MeetingWizard also offers numerous flexible features including the ability to add additional participants, additional dates and times, cancellations, and the ability to send automatic reminders.
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Team Edition Pricing*
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$95 for maximum 10 users
$95 per additional 10 users
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*based on $US, one-year renewable subscription
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All accounts are
30-day trial free
Users are defined as
"meeting organizers"
Invite unlimited
participants
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