With our Google Gadget, Google Calendar connector and launch-day presence in the Google Apps Marketplace, we know it’s pretty obvious that we’re big Google fans here at TimeBridge. Today we’re in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O and with it we’ve announced the upcoming availability of – count ‘em – two Google Wave Gadgets, the TimeBridge Conferencing Gadget and the TimeBridge Scheduling Gadget. This Gadget combo brings TimeBridge’s popular meeting tools right into Google Wave, and is the first-ever opportunity for users to socialize their availability right into the Wave and more effectively collaborate within their Wave workspace.
With the Scheduling Gadget for Google Wave, teams can:
Share availability from each participant’s Google Calendar, Apple iCal, or Outlook calendar, within Wave,
View the details of personal calendars in Wave,
Propose up to five meeting times,
Vote and see each Wave participants’ responses in real-time,
Confirm a meeting time and notify attendees within the Wave.
Not to be outdone, the TimeBridge Conferencing Gadget lets teams jump on free dedicated conference lines and Web conference URLs for immediate discussion around projects. We’ve got great conferencing offerings and the gadget seamlessly drives teams from independent and asynchronous tasks to the the more collaborative stages of team projects which is so natural to the Google Wave environment.
We’re very excited about being included in Google’s Developer Sandbox! The Conferencing Gadget is ready to go so check it out now in the Gadget Gallery in Wave. And Wave is now completely open as Google announced today. Our Scheduling Gadget has yet to be released into the wild. If you’re interested in participating in the private beta to that let us know in the comments below.
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.
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.
As a small business ourselves, we’re always looking for ways to capitalize on innovative online offerings to solve the issues we run into as we manage the clockwork of our company. Such was our inspiration for the newest expansion of our premium service, TimeBridge Business Plus. We’ve created a premium packages designed specifically for small business teams for working smarter and more economically.
With these packages, TimeBridge offers an automatically generated private virtual conference room for small businesses, allowing them to instantly schedule and connect over phone and web conferencing systems with a single click. By using TimeBridge Business Plus, companies can save nearly 70% over what they may spend on WebEx, Citrix or Adobe. TimeBridge’s robust web conferencing is flash-based for easy screen sharing with no attendee download making live web and desktop demos a smooth experience and video conferencing options ensure interactive and collaborative presentations and brainstorms.
In addition to conferencing services, the package includes our TimeBridge Groups which are just like your own mini-Exchange server in the sky – create groups inside or across companies and calendaring systems, for easy communication, scheduling and running great meetings.
We’re all back from the holidays and as we dust off our calendars, TimeBridge is rolling out some brand new features that make it even easier to meet and make meetings count. We’ve further powered up the service to include two popular tools that you’re very likely already using – today we are unveiling our integration with Evernote and a Google Gadget for your Google Calendar!
The new Evernote feature, found in the TimeBridge Meeting Room (along with the agenda, attendee information, conferencing options and our Box.net file sharing tab), enables you to:
• Store meeting notes, agendas and action items directly on Evernote,
• Keep meetings paperless and unhindered by loose notes and papers,
• Easily find and pull up previous meeting notes and collaborative text,
• Email TimeBridge notes from within Evernote notebook, and
• Organize, tag, and edit TimeBridge meeting notes from within Evernote.
Watch the video!
TimeBridge’s Google Gadget, which lives within your Google Calendar interface streamlines the scheduling process allowing you to:
• See colleagues’ real-time free/busy availability based on their calendar entries even if they are on another calendaring system, such as Outlook or Apple iCal,
• Find out which of their contacts is available or busy at any given time,
• Schedule individuals or groups,
• “Meet Right Now” with a single click, including optional conferencing services,
• Schedule a TimeBridge meeting with access to collaborative suite of tools, including agenda setting, file-sharing, conferencing and SMS options, and
• View any upcoming TimeBridge meetings, and specifically the ones that need your prompt attention right away (e.g. ones with scheduling conflicts).
