Outlook already contains all of the information you need to know about your meetings. Our meetings add-in for Outlook analyses that data and provides you a real-time analysis of how you (and your team) spend your meeting time.
It works in the background of Outlook, gathering meeting data from your calendar on a daily basis and presenting an easy to understand picture back to you.
All versions of Outlook from Outlook 2007 enable the full functionality of the add-in. If you are not sure which version of Outlook you are using, please take a look at the Microsoft guidance on this. Then please select the installation guide you need below. Each installation guide has a link to the correct version of the add-in. Please follow the guidance carefully.
If you are feeling lucky, talented, or if someone is helping you through this, you may prefer the following shortcut …
- Close everything down except this webpage (restart your machine if you have time)
- Run the correct installer for your Outlook: 2007 | 2010 and later – and follow the instructions
- Open Outlook, and let things settle down before you do anything else – and wait for an Inspirometer email (It sometimes helps to close and reopen Outlook a second time – even if you have the email)
- If you can see the Inspirometer buttons and they work, that is it done (simply request a new password – ‘forgot password’ – to access your meeting statistics)
- If the buttons aren’t there, or they don’t work, you may need to do some basic troubleshooting
Meeting feedback can be obtained in a number of ways both for the host of the meeting, and for those participating in the meeting. Meeting feedback is enabled simply by including
meetings@inspirometer.com in the invitation list for the meeting.
For new meetings, this can be done by ensuring you include meetings@inspirometer.com when you add the other invitees (the
Outlook Add-in will do this for you automatically).
For existing meetings, simply right-click them and forward them directly to meetings@inspirometer.com – please only do this for your own meetings, or with the permission of the meeting organiser. (Please note, this only works for Outlook 2010+ accounts connected to an Exchange Server.)
Once this is done, the other participants invited to your meeting will receive the opportunity to provide single click feedback on the meeting. If they have installed the app, and registered their email address, this will be through the App, but if they have not it will be done by email.
Please try it out by picking on one or two ‘friends’ and sending them a test meeting, lasting 10 minutes, and scheduled for a few minutes hence. Remember to include meetings@inspirometer.com (if you have the add-in this may happen automatically).
To access your account and see the data, follow this link: https://my.inspirometer.com/preview/dashboard and use your email address and your password* to log into your account.