How to Choose Board Portals for Meetings

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Board portals for meetings are an essential tool to help streamline and automate meeting management, especially for organizations looking to be more digital. Board members can access documents and information before, during, and following meetings, and also collaborate in real time with other directors. Boards that adopt these tools can see a positive impact on the effectiveness of their meetings, and also their productivity and efficiency throughout the week.

To select the best board portal for your company be sure to consider the features it offers and how easy it will be for all your board members to use. The portal should have user-friendly interface that reduces the learning curve. It must also be accessible via desktops and tablets.

You should be looking for features such as document management and calendar integration, and the creation and tracking of meeting minutes. Some portals even allow for electronic signature and voting to provide more robust functionality and better compliance with the regulations.

It is also important to be in a position to share documents with other team members, so that they can collaborate on them. This feature helps save time by making it possible for everyone to work on the same document. This is crucial for boards that require signatures and approval.

Make sure that the board software you choose integrates with your videoconferencing platform and allows your directors to easily join remote meetings directly from their dashboards. Aprio does this by integrating with popular solutions such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and GoToMeeting and allows you to simply click to connect.