An automated meeting facilitator [109] manages and archives a telemeeting.

One or more unique identifiers are created (206) which are associated directly with an upcoming telemeeting (202).

The multimedia indexing section [220] generates rich transcriptions of the telemeeting and stores documents related to the telemeeting.

In one embodiment, a telemeeting is administered automatically under the control of a communications network's service node (101).

The recipient caller then uses the personal reference to access and join the telemeeting via an appropriate node (110, 120) (e.g., to minimize calling distance costs, etc.).

Dr. Jones chairs the Quality Assurance Committee for his site and there is a tele-meeting of the quality assurance chairs from all facilities within his health region.5