by Yori Nelken on March 9, 2010
Tonight Google launched a huge initiative for the more than two million Google Apps customers – Welcome Google Apps Marketplace. It’s essentially a web app store that brings together Google-integrated web tools so Google Apps customers can discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services.
What is even more exciting for us, TimeBridge is part of this highly exclusive launch! This is a terrific opportunity for a few reasons.
First off, we have over 20,000 businesses already using TimeBridge to schedule and run great meetings within their organizations. Now we will be available to over 2 million Google Apps businesses and their over 20 million users who can access and enable TimeBridge on their company’s entire Google Apps domain bringing better collaboration and team efficiency. Secondly, we are also closely integrated with Google Cal, not only connecting users’ calendars, but we also have a TimeBridge Google Gadget that lives inside our users’ Google Calendars and allows them see if their TimeBridge contacts are free or available to meet for fast, simple scheduling straight from the Google Cal environment. Lastly, we’ve also recently added Google’s OpenID which, once enabled, all users on a company domain have full single-sign-on service between TimeBridge and Google.
In the Google Apps Marketplace, businesses can access TimeBridge’s full suite of meeting productivity tools, including simple scheduling, cross-calendar and time zone support, in addition to unlimited access to TimeBridge’s robust phone and web-conferencing that comes with a 30-day free trial.
It’s great to join the ranks of other Google-connected products and give folks yet another channel to find and use TimeBridge for faster scheduling and great meetings.
Find TimeBridge in the Google Apps Marketplace here.
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by Yori Nelken on February 25, 2010
This Saturday I will be taking part in an online event called the National Real Estate Cyber Convention & Expo. Despite its title, this web-only event (taking place all week), and my session specifically, should be interesting to anyone associated with the real estate industry, and even those who aren’t. My session, “Thinking Outside the Inbox,” will be conducted with Bay Area realtor Maureen Kennedy and focus on how real state pros can use the web to be more productive and just work smarter.
Here is our official session description:
As the world moves increasingly online, how can the real-estate industry bring its inherently very physical market to the web – and vice versa. While wikis, social networking profiles and other Web tools are increasingly reliable and relevant to the business day-to-day, email remains the go-to “killer app” for management of business needs, customer interactions and work-flow management. The problem is that email isn’t always a great way to connect, coordinate and get things done–especially for real estate professionals. In this session, panelists Yori Nelken (CEO of TimeBridge) and Bay Area realtor, Maureen Kennedy, will discuss how to leverage the best suite of productivity web tools to replace email as a principle vehicle for productivity, and bringing your specific business online.
Again, I think everyone will find the short presentation educational and informative, even those not in real estate. One of our main goals at TimeBridge is to identify and simply describe ways in which you can use some today’s best tools and technologies to improve your own personal and business productivity.
Tune in and then let me know what you think.
Register for the online conference here.
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by Yori Nelken on
In mid-January we let you know about the terrific addition of Evernote to our Meeting Room, which received overwhelmingly positive response from our users. It was another in a long line of partners and new features we’ve been adding to make TimeBridge your go-to resource for scheduling and running great meetings. This Thursday, we’ll be taking part in Evernote’s “Notable Tech” event (6pm-9pm PT) at 111 Minna in downtown San Francisco.
TimeBridge will be in good company at the event, as Evernote showcases some of their most important partnerships.
Who will be there
We expect a great panel discussion moderated by Guy Kawasaki, titled Managing Competition in Tech. The panelists will be Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote; Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic; and Adeo Ressi, founding member of TheFunded.com
If you are in the immediate area we’d love for you to come by, have a drink and say hello. Again, our partnership with Evernote has been a terrific boon for both companies, we hope you think so as well.
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(There will be a charge at the door so take advantage of the free offer)
Event details
Date: Thursday, February 25th
Time: 6pm-9pm, panel discussion starts at 7:30
Location: 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
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by Yori Nelken on February 22, 2010
By the collaborative nature of our service, TimeBridge has always been innately social, connecting busy people for great meetings and the entire process of making that happen. With this in mind, we unveil our two newest features (full press release)…
MeetWith.Me™ personalized availability links give our users the ability to share their availability across their social channels. This personalized URL lets colleagues and friends see busy and available time-blocks on users’ schedules so they know when the user is free to meet. (Feel free to take a look at mine to see what it’s like– http://meetwith.me/yori.) Visitors can suggest up to five potential times to meet and the calendar owner can choose whichever time works best. MeetWith.Me also enables the option to set customized “business hours” to control availability time frames for potential meetings. MeetWith.Me can be socialized across the following social networks and outlets:
- LinkedIn page
- Email signature
- Facebook page
- Instant message profile or status
- Blog profile
- Twitter profile, status, @ reply or Direct Message
Additionally, we’re also rolling out our new integration with LinkedIn that lets users quickly acquaint themselves with fellow attendees and connect over their professional LinkedIn network. This new feature lets users pop up and display each attendee’s current occupation and position, education as well as relevant links via their LinkedIn profile, further expanding meeting participants’ professional networks.
Claim your MeetWith.Me at http://meetwith.me and make your meetings personal.
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by John Stormer on February 11, 2010
While not every sector or certainly every business is yet experiencing an upswing, it is clear that everyone is redoubling their efforts from 2009 and looking toward increased productivity in 2010. As the engines of business rev, so are our calendars filling with new daily, weekly and one-off meetings. While we are big proponents of productive meetings, we also caution meeting leaders to be judicious and think ahead about their meetings, their goals, and how a meeting will lead to an improved outlook for all in attendance.
This week TechCrunch ran a story about an online offering that lambastes companies and meeting organizers who waste attendees’ precious time. Things have changed and sales leads, business partners and yes, even employees, now regularly feel emboldened to share their impressions on…just about everything…publicly! Whether its a blog post, a tweet, or a scathing online review companies can no longer afford to assume polite discretion.
In the arena of scheduling and running great meetings, which we know a lot about, there are three top-line things every meeting leader must know to address this critical shift and keep driving productivity and results:
- Know why you’re having a meeting– Make sure you make it clear to your attendees; set an agenda and allow attendees to add their two cents (through TimeBridge)
- Know why everyone needs to be there– If an invitee isn’t impacted by the meeting then they probably don’t need to be there– they can read your meeting notes (from TimeBridge)
- Know what the desired result is– Summarize the action items at the end of the meeting and email them (through TimeBridge too, of course)
It’s that simple. Our entire purpose at TimeBridge is to help make meetings meaningful and easy-to-schedule forums that inform attendees and drive people toward goals. If you don’t approach meetings with the right personal and technological tools get ready because your next review may be a public one.
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