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OfficeMedium Ranked #1 Business Collaboration App by Business Pundit

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Submitted by admin on January 18, 2010 - 11:03am

Business Pundit, one of our favorite business blogs out there, compiled an excellent roundup of business collaboration web apps. The market is getting fairly crowded so a mass review like this was much needed. What is the most interesting is not how many different applications there are, but how different each one is; not just in features or focus, but in how each has their own, unique way of accomplishing different things.

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Video Uploading Now Available

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Submitted by admin on February 6, 2010 - 6:59pm

As mentioned earlier, we unrolled video support for OfficeMedium. This is a great example as to why we always stress that we want to hear your feedback. A business owner contacted us who wanted to adopt OfficeMedium as a collaboration solution to use with their clients. After explaining the needs of the business, he said that they need to post videos for their clients to see the progress of their work. It sounded like a great idea - one that many businesses could benefit from. Six days later and OfficeMedium now has video support. So keep the feedback and suggestions coming.

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Video Support Scheduled to be Released Tonight

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Submitted by admin on February 3, 2010 - 3:01pm

Just a quick note, and to keep things brief for now, we are planning on rolling out video support late tonight. Once (if) released, we'll post a detailed explanation on how it will work and all of the information needed. We expect to begin the updates around midnight. At that time, your software will be temporarily unaccessible. The downtime is estimated to be 30-40 minutes long.

Check back for more details.

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Special Reader Promotion for eBizQ Readers

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Submitted by admin on February 3, 2010 - 1:37pm

OfficeMedium was recently covered by eBizQ, and excellent site focused on I.T., following our great appearance in Business Pundit's roundup of business collaboration web tools. Being that we landed the #1 spot on the list, we've been reaching out to awesome tech and business sites, offering special promotions to their readers. eBizQ was the first to accept and publish the promotion (you can thank your favorite site for declining our offer).

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Patch Deployed to Fix Private Item Dashboard Issue

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Submitted by admin on February 2, 2010 - 1:31am

During our development sessions today, in route to video support and group creation, we noticed a small issue related to private content items that needed to be fixed. If you don't know already, private content items are items that have all the attributes of other content items (eg, tasks, events) but are visible only to the creator, and the users that are referenced. This system was put in place to avoid having to create groups and workspaces - so you can just quickly submit a private item without any hassle.

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Going Down For Brief Maintenance

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Submitted by admin on January 27, 2010 - 1:08am

We'll be addressing a minor server issue in the next 20-30 minutes. Once we begin the work, this site and your software will not be accessible. We expect the downtime should last no more than 10 minutes. Your access will be automatically restored after that.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: All work has been completed. Access to everything is restored. Everything is working as expected.

Hard Facts About Small Businesses

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Submitted by admin on January 19, 2010 - 1:39pm

America is all about small business. It's the backbone of our economy. We provide software to help businesses communicate and collaborate better, as well as cut costs. Tactics like that are what help businesses survive. And survival is the ultimate challenge of the small business. Focus.com posted a beautiful and stunning infographic with some real interesting facts and data about our country's small businesses. Take a quick look.

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30 Online Invoicing Apps for Small Businesses

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Submitted by admin on January 19, 2010 - 1:34pm

As a majority of our customers being small businesses, we always try to bring you helpful articles and resources to make business easier, and take advantage of the latest technology. Being a web software provider, we're obviously a big fan of anything running on the web. While our software provides tons of great features, we do not offer anything related to billing or invoicing your clients (yet?).

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Brief Maintenance Scheduled for 11:00PM EST

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Submitted by admin on January 17, 2010 - 11:22pm

OfficeMedium will be going down at approximately 11:00PM EST for brief server maintenance. The downtime shouldn't last more than 10-15 minutes. During that time, our website and your software will not be accessible. As always, we scheduled this time for Sunday night, which is often the most convenient for businesses.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

80 Ways To Use Twitter as a Business Owner

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Submitted by admin on January 12, 2010 - 1:47pm

Twitter is not only here to stay, it's taking over the web. Everywhere you look now, Twitter is involved. Where it could be a fun and interesting tool on a personal level, it apparently holds great opportunity for business owners as well. Businesses are learning about the great potential that Twitter holds, on a marketing, brand building, and sales tools.

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