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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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OfficeMedium Gets an RSS Feed Reader, File & Resource Revisioning

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Submitted by admin on April 27, 2010 - 12:12pm

Straight off the suggestions of some very smart customers and potential customers of ours, we successfully released two significant and very useful features into the OfficeMedium platform on Sunday afternoon. No public announcement was made about the features, but after a quick 10-minute downtime, all of the functionality was rolled out. We decided to hold off till today to make a post about the features, because several minor patches were put out since, just to tweak all of the features and settings.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Use SaaS For Your Business

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Submitted by admin on April 21, 2010 - 6:32pm

Jeffrey Kaplan, an author from Datamation, just posted a great, real quick, roundup of the most compelling reasons to begin using SaaS for your business. For those of you who aren't yet fully aware, SaaS stands for Software-as-a-Service. And for a quick explanation:

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OfficeMedium Reviewed by Small Business Trends

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Submitted by admin on April 18, 2010 - 4:12pm

A big thanks to TJ McCue from Small Business Trends for providing a great recap and review of OfficeMedium. Small Business Trends is a well-known, highly-respected, award-winning online publication for small business owners, entrepreneurs and the people who interact with them. The site has been in my feed reader for quite some time because of the quality and resourcefulness of their content.

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Going Down For Quick Maintenance Tonight

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Submitted by admin on March 22, 2010 - 4:04pm

As explained in our last post, a fews of issues, two bugs, and some minor back-end updates need to be addressed. We've chosen to tackle the work tonight at approximately 11:30PM and expect the downtime to last no more than 30 minutes. During that time, you will lose access to your software and this website. But at least, we're doing the updates and not you - which would be the case if you managed your own software.

This post will be updated once the work has been completed and your access is restored.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Bug Detected in Google Web Search Function

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Submitted by admin on March 19, 2010 - 3:28pm

Unsure how this bug slipped under the radar, but it was recently discovered that users were getting an "Access Denied" error when trying to search the web. Not sure what we're talking about? About a month or two, we introduced a clever feature into the software, allowing you to search Google from within the application. To make this possible, we utilized Google Custom Search Engine.

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How to Get Your Team to Embrace Collaboration Tools

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Submitted by admin on March 12, 2010 - 11:48am

I just caught this simple article on BNET, a great site for business-management related articles and information. A lot of teams and businesses have trouble adopting collaboration tools at first, because it's a relatively new type of software. Sometimes the ways that your business can benefit most from collaboration tools isn't quite clear at first - and every business is different.

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What to Look for in Online Collaboration Tools for Small Business

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Submitted by admin on February 24, 2010 - 6:47pm

Small Biz Bee, a blog dedicated to small business advice and resources that we just began to sponsor, recently posted an excellent article about choosing the best online collaboration tools for your business. With the collaboration market growing very rapidly, a business owner could easily be confused and inundated with the amount of choices available.

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User Browser Gets a Minor Face-lift

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Submitted by admin on February 23, 2010 - 2:27pm

The user browser component of OfficeMedium, as simple as it is, was quite aesthetically unappealing. Obviously there wasn't much design effort put towards it. In a very early-morning burst of creativity and distaste for it's appearance, we decided to tweak the layout and code for a much better looking solution. The changes aren't anything spectacular, but things are easier to read now and look at least presentable.

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Are Hosted Solutions & Applications Reliable?

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Submitted by admin on February 17, 2010 - 3:45pm

This is one of the most common questions we incur and one of the most common fears of business owners becoming interested in utilizing SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications. To refresh your memory, SaaS applications, just like our collaboration software, are hosted on the Internet by companies, known as the providers. Instead of purchasing software and running it on your own private servers, you can utilize these SaaS application to avoid server and infrastructure costs, as well as deploy instantly.

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