I Hate Meetings (from MeetingMix, YC S08)

http://www.fixmeetings.com/i-hate-meetings

by sgupta • 16 years ago

38 4 16 years ago

mmelin• 16 years ago

Don't take this the wrong way, but why would I want to share this on Twitter or Facebook or tell anyone about this page? There's nothing viral here, just some bland statements about meetings.

I would suggest that you do something more edgy, weird, funny or whatever, and not worry about tying it into "how to do meetings right" in the end. Just stick a footer in there with "MeetingMix helps you do meetings right" and focus on compelling, linkable content for the rest.

natrius• 16 years ago

If you're friends with a broad range of people, you'll see all sorts of things that get shared or liked without much inherent virality to them. There are entire sites dedicated to phrases associated with like buttons that have absolutely no content at their endpoints (e.g. http://fblike.net). They basically just let users say they like something in their friends' feeds. If you add a like button to that page and set your Open Graph meta tags to make it say "natrius liked I Hate Meetings on MeetingMix.com"[1], I think you'll get plenty of traffic.

[1] I think the page would have to be on the meetingmix.com domain for that to work correctly. It might just make "MeetingMix.com" link to fixmeetings.com.

  og:title = "I Hate Meetings"
  og:site_name = "MeetingMix.com"

On fixmeetings.com and meetingmix.com:

  og:type = "website"

You might need some of the other meta tags in each place. Note that after 10 likes, you won't be able to change the title.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph

BenS• 16 years ago

I agree with mmelin. Maybe it could be more fun if it was a petition you 'sign' by re-tweeting, or a 'meeting manifesto'. Or at least something more provocative like, I won't tolerate poorly run meetings or the people who perpetrate them because they are soul sucking and are wasting my life away.

far33d• 16 years ago

If you want to know how to run a good meeting, read Andy Grove's book, High Output Management. It's the best of the business books I've read.

It's hard work to make meetings useful but the book lays out the groundwork.

I Hate Meetings (from MeetingMix, YC S08)

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