Category :Who uses TimeBridge
by Yori Nelken on February 25, 2010
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 January 21, 2010
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.
Jettison inefficient meetings, be a meeting hero and fuel your own career while doing it!
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by Yori Nelken on August 4, 2008
Over the past few months, we’ve been excited to see growth in the number of users (now more than 70,000!) as well as the increasing variety of user groups emerging, all embracing TimeBridge for its efficiency and simplicity in scheduling. It’s come as no surprise, then, that many of our users are educators.
Besides keeping strict class schedules, educators must also carve out time for students and fellow faculty and the task of finding mutually convenient meeting times can be a frustrating process. With hectic days and small budgets, an increasing number of educators are turning to the cost and time efficient Web 2.0 offerings such as TimeBridge, Twitter and Remember the Milk to coordinate their busy schedules and get other things done efficiently.
For one of the users out there in the educational system, teacher-blogger, Vicki Davis of Camilla, Georgia, TimeBridge has proved instrumental in some large educational endeavors beyond the basic day-to-day scheduling.
Vicki, who teaches 8th-12th graders is the founder of the Horizon Project which aims to bring students together from classrooms all over the world for discussion and research in a global forum. One challenge that arose in the beginnings of the project was finding a time when all of the participating teachers from time zones like Australia, Qatar and Bangladesh, could make plans for the project. The dilemma of scheduling across time zones is what led Vicki to introduce TimeBridge as a collaborative tool.
“These projects would really not be possible without TimeBridge because we would not be able to get together to plan and strategize,” says Vicki.
For Dustin Brentlinger, Dean of Students at Heidelberg College in Ohio, meetings with students are a common part of his day. Coordinating these meetings were often a challenge by email and phone with students who often forgot or ignored his calls and emails. According to Dustin, TimeBridge allows him to better communicate and coordinate with students who are more comfortable communicating digitally.
We’re very excited that TimeBridge is finding such use in the educational sector and hope that more teachers be able to find ease in managing their often complicated and intricate schedules.
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by John Stormer on June 20, 2008
When we first conceived the idea for TimeBridge, our focus was on finding ways to use the latest the web offered to make people’s daily lives easier. We thought “busy professionals” would definitely get the most value and would be the highest volume users, but didn’t define it much further than that. But since we launched the product about six months ago, it’s been fascinating to see how diverse our user base has become. We have seen a number of groups adapting TimeBridge quicker than others, including the usual suspects like sales and marketing pros, but one that has risen up quite unexpectedly is religious leaders–specifically pastors!
Over the past few months we’ve seen lots of excitement around the value TimeBridge is delivering to parishioners and community members. Bob Hyatt, the author of PastorHacks, mentioned back in January that he was trying online scheduling tools to ease the process of organizing Elder meetings and blogged recently about how he is using TimeBridge. Bob particularly liked the calendar integration:
“TimeBridge syncs with Google Calendar, so- when I suggested some proposed times for our next Elder shindig, within minutes, those times automatically got blocked out and labeled (tentative) on my iCal. Pretty dang slick.”
Bob was actually turned onto TimeBridge by another minister blogger, Bill Reichart, author of Ministry Best Practices. Bill likes our price tag: “It’s a simple, free service that helps people set up meetings. It acts like a personal scheduling assistant (something I don’t have in my church budget to pay for!)”
Bill’s post on Ministry Best Practices also turned Corry Miller of the Church Communications Pro blog into a believer (pardon the pun).It’s no surprise that scheduling is a problem for clergymen, and Pastor Andy Arnold discusses the need for a solution like TimeBridge on his blog, Pastor Andy’s Ponderings.
We’ve even seen the pastoral conversation about TimeBridge taken beyond blogs—Pastor John Owen Butler tweeted about how he uses it to schedule pastoral visits. Who knew that pastors were so cutting edge?
These high-tech pastors are really onto something. Scheduling has become a nightmare for virtually everyone, not just regular office folk; and we’re excited that people are really embracing what TimeBridge is all about. Hallelujah!
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by Yori Nelken on June 4, 2008
Today is a big day for TimeBridge – we’re announcing that we now have over 50,000 users (since we launched in December 2007), with more than 6,000 companies represented. I am really excited to see this kind of momentum and see our vision of TimeBridge making life so much easier for so many busy people coming to fruition. To think that TimeBridge was just an idea not so long ago… very satisfying!
As more and more busy professionals turn to TimeBridge to make scheduling meetings easier, we’ve seen it start to spread virally within organizations and become a company wide standard for coordinating calendars and bringing people together.
We’ve noticed that TimeBridge is particularly useful for small businesses who don’t want to spend a ton of cash (or headache) on Microsoft Exchange or any other heavyweight solutions which may not even be really necessary, and it allows their employees to use a Mac or a Windows PC or whatever they like and still be able to schedule effective with each other.
One example we talk about in today’s announcement is Apogee Search, an Austin-based search-marketing firm. What was once a significant time drain and source of frustration for Apogee is now a problem of the past thanks to TimeBridge’s Outlook- and Google integrated scheduling application. Apogee Search’s director of client services likes TimeBridge so much in fact, he has started using it with his friends and family outside work!
After analyzing our user data, we have found that nearly half of new TimeBridge users are individuals at companies like Apogee Search. Atlantic Research Group, a clinical research management company, and FastPivot, an e-commerce design agency, are two other small businesses that had similar scheduling issues as Apogee and have since solved them by making TimeBridge a standard, companywide solution. This is but a small set of the kind of activity and adoption we’re seeing from our user base, but thought they were good examples to showcase how people and businesses are embracing what TimeBridge is all about.
If you want to get your company started on TimeBridge give us a call: (866) 585-5104 or email mybusiness@timebridge.com
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