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AvatarRaphaela BrandnerMeister

10 Meeting Rules to Host Productive and Effective Meetings

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10 Meeting Rules to Host Productive and Effective Meetings

A recent study of 19 million meetings found that workers in the U.S. spend an average of two hours a week in pointless meetings. And while that doesn’t sound like a lot, the exponential cost of two hours per person per week […]

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AvatarJessica Greene

9 Wildly Useful Blog Mind Map Examples for Content Marketers

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9 Wildly Useful Blog Mind Map Examples for Content Marketers

Whether you’re an influencer with a personal blog you write and manage all on your own or a content marketer trying to oversee contributions to your company blog from several staff writers and freelancers, you need a blog mind map. A blog […]

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AvatarJessica Greene

7 Research-Backed Benefits of Mind Mapping

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Mind mapping on a whiteboard

If you’ve ever built a mind map, you might have experienced some of the benefits of the exercise. Maybe the visual nature of a mind map helped you recall information better. Maybe the simplicity of mind mapping allowed you to capture your […]

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AvatarGenevieve Conti

How to Delegate Tasks Effectively (and Why It’s Important)

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One of my favorite Olympic sports to watch is track relay. The runners make blindly reaching for a baton at 20 mph while staying in their lanes look incredibly easy. But in truth, what they’re doing is extremely difficult. And it’s a […]

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AvatarOlivia

A Simple Way to Design UI, UX, and CX Using Mind Maps

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Mind Map UX Cover Image

There are many tools designers can use to design user interfaces, user experiences, and customer experiences—from sticky notes on a wall to fully functional prototypes—but mind mapping, according to product designer Eugene Rudyy, is one of the most efficient. In this post, […]

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There Are Four Archetypal Developer Personas — Which One Are You?

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There Are Four Archetypal Developer Personas — Which One Are You?

Meister HQ was recently taken over by students! Don’t panic, it wasn’t a hostile takeover. Best we explain a little more. We hosted a few international management students from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, who, as part of a project […]

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AvatarManel HerederoEvoca

A Step-By-Step Guide to Building a Knowledge Map

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Building a Knowledge Map

A knowledge map is a powerful tool for communities and organizations to capture and share their most valuable asset: intellectual capital. In the first article of this knowledge mapping series, I provided an introduction to knowledge management—its benefits and best practices. In […]

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AvatarJessica Greene

Get Inspired With These 13 Mind Map Examples

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example mind map

Mind mapping is best known as a brainstorming exercise. You start with a central topic—surrounded by a bubble—then expand your ideas by adding additional bubbles that are each connected together with lines to create relationships. But mind mapping is useful for much […]

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How to Win The IT Talent War

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How to Win The IT Talent War

Insights from five Viennese tech SMEs whose innovative employer branding initiatives have helped them attract talented and ambitious developers.  There’s a war going on. A war for IT talent — and the prize… developers. Tech companies the world over are battling it […]

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AvatarRodney Laws

How To Embrace The Power Of Ideation: Marketing Team Guide

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How To Embrace The Power Of Ideation: Marketing Team Guide

For marketers, ideas are a valuable commodity. They are the sparks of success, but they require the right tools and resources as well as careful nurturing if they are to develop into powerful campaigns. Why Does Ideation Matter so Much For Marketing? […]

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AvatarAnastasia Masters

10 Types of Workplace Illnesses & How to Cure Them

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10 Types of Workplace Illnesses & How to Cure Them

With the majority of our hours spent at work, the static nature of office-based jobs can lead to a number of common workplace illnesses. When we aren’t feeling our best, our work feels the impact. Staying healthy, both physically and mentally, is […]

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AvatarRaphaela BrandnerMeister

The Project Planning Process

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The Project Planning Process

The project planning process starts before work on the actual project begins and continues throughout the life cycle of the project. Its main goal is to adequately plan the time, cost and resources needed for the project and thus to minimize risk. The […]

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AvatarRaphaela BrandnerMeister

Make Better Business Decisions with These Three Templates

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Eisenhower Matrix (MindMeister Template)

We all make dozens if not hundreds of decisions every day: what to wear, where to have lunch, which business opportunity to invest in… The problem is that too many decisions can be draining and lead to decision fatigue or even decision […]

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AvatarTarryn AbrahamsMeister

Unlock The Power Of Mind Maps For Business

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business plan

Is there a secret to taking great meeting minutes? What are the most important things to consider when creating a project plan? Or a business plan for that matter? What information should be included, what shouldn’t? If you’ve never had to do […]

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AvatarRaphaela BrandnerMeister

A Tribute to Tony Buzan, the Inventor of Mind Maps

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Mind map

Tony Buzan, the inventor of mind maps, has died. With his boundless energy and enthusiasm, he helped millions of people around the world to structure their thoughts, reach their learning goals, and unleash their creativity. Visual thinking, graphical representations and the process […]

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AvatarMaddie Davis

5 Tips for Onboarding New Employees with Ease

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Onboarding Employees with Ease

Good employees are hard to come by in today’s competitive job market. When you’re fortunate enough to succeed in your search and are ready to welcome new people to your team, you’ll want to make sure their introduction to your company goes […]

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AvatarRaphaela BrandnerMeister

How to Create an Idea-Driven Organization

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Idea-Driven Organization

Constant innovation is crucial for businesses who want to stay ahead of the competition. But how do you create a real culture of innovation? How do you foster a free exchange of knowledge and manage ideas efficiently? In this article, we’ll discuss […]

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AvatarKayla MatthewsProductivityTheory

6 Productivity Tips to Keep Your Meetings on Track

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Productivity Tips for Meetings

We’re spending more time in meetings. Today’s executives devote an average of 23 hours a week to them, while in the ’60s, meetings took up less than 10 hours for the average executive. But the fact that we’re spending more time on […]

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AvatarKayla MatthewsProductivityTheory

5 Ways Knowledge Management Can Boost Your Business

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Every company, whether global or local, will depend on the effective sharing of information. Whether it’s between job applicants and hiring managers, or between COOs and their employees, effective knowledge management is vital. Here’s how… Onboarding employees, sharing best practices, and communicating compliance […]

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AvatarLena KowarcMeister

Sustainable Growth: 4 Questions for Fast-Growing Companies

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leadership on growing teams

When a start-up grows at scale, your leadership strategy will need to grow with it. At MeisterLabs, when we could no longer fit around the same meeting room table, we knew it was time to take stock. Over the past few years, […]

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AvatarOlivia

Speedy, Shiny, Supercharged: Welcoming MeisterTask 2.0

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Introducing MeisterTask 2.0

It’s our pleasure to introduce our biggest update yet: MeisterTask 2.0. MeisterTask 2.0 provides a fresh dashboard redesign, advanced productivity features and a brand new tech stack, making MeisterTask faster and more stable than ever. Read on to find out what’s new… Note: […]

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AvatarMihai Sterian

How we grew organic traffic by 332.91% with user-generated content

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jumping into content

Can you name a more iconic duo than content and SEO in the history of marketing? Go ahead, I’ll wait . . . As marketers, it’s our duty to take SEO into consideration when we’re creating pages and content. Product feature announcements, use […]

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AvatarRaphaela BrandnerMeister

How to Create a Project Communications Plan (+Template)

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Project Communications Plan Template

A project communications plan is a document that describes the communications goals, strategies and measures needed to ensure all stakeholders of a project have the right information at the right time. In this article we’ll show you how to use a simple […]

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AvatarTill Vollmer, FounderMeister

We Care About Your Data – Here’s Why You Should Too

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glenn-carstens-peters data security privacy meisterlabs

Did the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica reports have you wondering just how secure the online tools you use are? In this article, we’ll advise on how to assess your current tools and share our approach at MeisterLabs to protecting user data, no […]

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AvatarMichael Hollauf, FounderMeister

4 Challenges Every Growing SaaS Business Will Face

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4 stages of growth SaaS entrepreneur

It’s been eleven years since Till and I founded MeisterLabs and since launching, we’ve come up against our fair share of hurdles. Fortunately, we’ve weathered each storm and at every plateau discovered new ways to breathe life into the business and our approach […]

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AvatarRabea Thies

How We Hire: 3 Interview Approaches for Sourcing a Great Team

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how we hire at meisterlabs interview approach

When you spot an exciting job opportunity, it’s only natural to feel a little anxious about what the recruitment process might involve. However, at MeisterLabs we believe that hiring processes should never be scary. They should be a reciprocal exercise into judging […]

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AvatarMichael Hollauf, FounderMeister

Slave to the Ribbon: 4 Tough Questions in Software Design

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Slave to the Ribbon mindmeister software design saas design

At MeisterLabs, we did our first usability test last year on our mind mapping product, MindMeister.   As a team that focuses on designing attractive and easy-to-use software, the test was an eye-opening experience. It forced us to think long and hard about […]

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AvatarOlivia

Boost Team Productivity with MeisterTask & Zapier for Teams

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team productivity Zapier for teams meistertask

Your team can say goodbye to manual updates and hello to supercharged team productivity, with MeisterTask and new Zapier for Teams. Following the latest release from app automation platform Zapier, it’s now easier than ever to set up powerful workflow automations with […]

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AvatarJasmine Powers

The 5 Stages of a Successful Customer Life Cycle

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sales funnel mindmeister advertising facebook google ads

Designing a customer life cycle can be daunting. After all, sourcing people who are totally new to your brand and turning them into loyal customers, and even brand advocates, is no easy feat. However, with a customer cycle jam-packed with visual content and […]

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AvatarOlivia

An Agile Guide to Integrating Customer Feedback

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Agile approach project management customer feedback client feedback user feedback

Developing a product that’s valued by your customer is pretty much the bread and butter of Agile project management. To achieve this, you need to be sharing project progression and prototypes with your stakeholders (and end-users, if separate) at every iteration of your project. 

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