Timebridge just relaunched their website today along with the announcement of several new services to make scheduling meetings faster, easier and even fun!

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Among the new features are

• an iPhone app
• SMS text message reminders to attendees
• Let’s Meet™ page to allow people to pick times from your schedule (untested)
• Meeting Time Messenger™ which sends out a 5 minute reminder to attendees

Timebridge Meetings Still Free

Timebridge will continue to offer their awesome meeting software free to folks.  I’ve been using it for over a year (since February 2008) and it has saved me thousands of dollars in time because now I just send one email and get confirmed times back. No hassle, no mess with scheduling!

Premium Version Launched

They have added a new “Plus” package which gives you the ability to send SMS text messages to your attendees and hold webinars with up to 100 people attending. The cost for the plus service is $8.95.

iPhone App Coming Soon

It looks like the iPhone app is coming soon and it will connect you to essential Timebridge actions like accepting meetings, sending out reminders and giving people a heads up if you plan to be late for the meeting (I like that one!).

Meetings Are Opportunities For Success

David Allen, the GTD guru was quoted in Timebridge’s press release today:

According to David Allen, management consultant, trainer, and best-selling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: “Meetings are either the boon or bane of every enterprise, depending on how well they’re envisioned and managed.

Every meeting is an opportunity to get things done, but the unfortunate reality is that most meetings are not nearly as productive as they could be. Not only is it squandered time for the team, but for the meeting organizer, a bad meeting is a missed leadership opportunity. Stepping up and acting as a meeting leader means establishing, maintaining and communicating clear goals, and ensuring clear decisions, accountabilities and actions – something that is hard to do while juggling a lot of moving parts.

Tools that help streamline the logistics and make the process easier and more engaging for all involved are essential to helping each of us rise to the challenge of leading a great meeting.”

I had the opportunity to speak with David Allen last week via phone and will be writing up my thoughts. Did you know David Allen uses Lotus Notes? I pegged him as an Outlook guy! I’ve been a fan to the GTD workflow since picking up the book in 2005. Lifehacker was the first site to help me connect the idea of technology and productivity.

So if I haven’t already sent you a meeting request through Timebridge, try it out for yourself to save time and make your meetings effortless!