The ability to manage meetings without paper on one secure platform empowers your board to focus their time and energy on decision making. Board members can access all meeting materials, documents and other documents from one place, allowing them to make informed decisions more quickly and secure document sharing efficiently. Both Aprio and BoardPaq provide meeting agenda tools to help you create meeting materials efficiently. These include templates that can be downloaded as well as the ability to upload folders that contain multiple files. Aprio also has a message board for rapid communication with your entire board. With real-time annotation of PDF files, collaborating with your board is simple and convenient.
It is essential to ensure that your board papers are concise, clear and precise when planning, managing and executing paperless board meetings, leadership and committees. You should set a timeframe for the submission of your board documents to ensure that your Board can examine and approve the documents prior to the meeting.
Boardpaq, a company founded in 2012 it is an online platform that lets users organize and run board meetings without paper. The headquarters of the company are located in Saint Charles, Missouri. BoardPaq’s board management software includes meeting management, news announcements, polls, document discussions and task management. It also provides strengths of, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis tools to help accelerate strategic planning. Its centralized data base helps to improve the memory of the business and helps with electronic workflows for logging activity reports, resolution voting and board minutes. Members can access a mobile application to view the board’s materials and meetings, record them and note notes.