TimeBridge

AppSumo: You will want this package!

What do TimeBridge, Evernote and Remember the Milk all having common–besides being three of the Internet’s most popular application providers of course? Well as of today we all, along with other terrific productivity applications, will be available through AppSumo’s comprehensive new Productivity Bundle.

We are always looking for creative partnerships to expose more people to the power of TimeBridge to improve meetings from scheduling to post meeting wrap-up, and now through AppSumo you can get TimeBridge Plus services and try out some terrific new apps all for one very low price. For a limited time you can go now and sign up for the AppSumo Productivity Bundle and get 1 year of Plus service with us + 5 other awesome web apps for only $55!  Try  it and embrace the productivity.

Help when you need it with Live Support

If you ever encounter a problem or question while using TimeBridge, we want to know about it right away and guide you through. This is why we monitor Twitter, blog posts and keep an eye on our own servers to make sure everything is running A-OK.

This is also why TimeBridge Plus now offers “Live Support” – a chat feature that connects users with a virtual help-desk to trouble-shoot and walk-through any issues you might be experiencing. The Live Support option is found in the upper right-hand corner of your browser screen within your TimeBridge page. Upon clicking the Live Support option, a window will pop up, initiating the chat session. From there just ask questions and we’ll work to resolve your issue quickly.

Further emphasizing our commitment to customer care we’ve also just promoted our own Tomer Ben-Dor to Vice President of Customer Service and Quality Assurance. And why do we do all of this when so many offer you just “sink of swim” frequently asked questions and static support? We do it because its important, and a critical part of making your meetings better.

So feel free to send us your questions, we’re listening – live!

Stand Up for More Efficient Meetings! Join the 45-Minute Meeting Movement!

What if you could shave 15 minutes off of every hour-long meeting in your day, what would you do with all the extra time? What if there was a list of rules to which all attendees adhered and meetings actually ended on time?! We’re betting you’d finish a lot more work, get a lot more decisions made and perhaps get out of work on time.

Today we’re announcing a movement to help you and your teams champion shorter, more efficient meetings. We wanted to get behind the spirit of this movement and make it so inherent in our service that we’ve made our TimeBridge default meeting times to 45 minutes.

Meeting and productivity expert, Mike Song, says that 43% of meeting time is wasted. How would you like to get that back? Join this movement! Make your next meeting 45-minutes instead of an hour. Go to 45MinuteMeeting.com to see our initial list of 45 Minute Meeting rules. If you have other tips on how to make meetings more efficient we’d love to hear about them on Twitter or on this post! The best tips will receive a free copy of “The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done” by Mike Song.

TimeBridge’s Innovation Entourage Keeps Growing!

As our service expands with new tools and powerful integrations, so does our team. You may not know that TimeBridge has a leading development team in Israel working hard to expand, fine-tune and maintain TimeBridge’s services so that your calendars and meetings are always supported and scheduled seamlessly.

Today we’re announcing a strategic addition to our International operations – Eitan Cohen has joined TimeBridge as VP of Engineering and will also serve as General Manager of the Israeli office. In this role Eitan now heads up product development and operations, and will play a key role in continuing to expand and bolster our service. Eitan has a strong background in technology and brings to the company extensive executive management experience in product management, development and customer support.

Eitan is a great addition to the growing TimeBridge entourage. He brings the exact forward-thinking leadership we love and require as we look forward to upcoming developments. Welcome to the team, Eitan!

We’re also thrilled to announce that our TimeBridge community is also growing – we’ve surpassed our 500,000 user mark! We’ve been busy this past year enhancing our product and we’re so glad to see that it is meeting the needs of meeting leaders out there. We’re excited to have you all in our community.

Real Estate Pros: Tune In and Get More Productive

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.