It’s official. Manymoon will be participating in the Google I/O sandbox this year as a featured Google Apps developer. We have a lot of exciting developments in progress and will be releasing new ways to integrate with Google Apps that will allow our users to get work done even faster.
Manymooon is a social productivity app that simplifies your work life by letting you organize projects, tasks, documents, and conversations all in one place for your whole team.
Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content at Google’s largest developer event of the year. Focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies, Google I/O will take place on May 10 and 11 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Developers who aren’t able to attend the event in person can join viewing parties around the world through I/O Extended, or can watch from home through I/O Live.
Be sure to swing by and say hello if you are attending!
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Today we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. Here at Manymoon we see the amazing power that the Google Apps Marketplace has to bring cloud computing to everyone – from people operating small businesses to large enterprises enabling thousands of users.
We launched Manymoon on the Google Apps Marketplace when there were just 50 apps on it, and we are now the top-installed app in the entire Marketplace. From this vantage point we have seen the phenomenal growth as more and more businesses realize the potential of Marketplace apps that are always available, that don’t need updates, and that integrate tightly with Google Docs, Calendar, Gmail and Sites. The Google Apps Marketplace now has over 300 apps enabling businesses to find the perfect solution to match their unique needs, and we are proud to be a part of it.
We get great feedback from Google Apps Marketplace customers and are excited to continue developing the features and products that will let millions of Google Apps users not just become more productive and efficient at work, but also enable them to work in new, disruptive and game-changing ways.
We’re excited to see what year 2 brings…
- The Manymoon Team
Check out Manymoon on the Google Apps Marketplace
Today we are excited to announce that Manymoon has been acquired by salesforce.com!
Manymoon has experienced tremendous growth since our launch, with more than 50,000 businesses adopting our social productivity app. We’ve launched on three major web platforms: Google Apps Marketplace, LinkedIn, and the Google Chrome Web Store. We think we’re on to something special, building an easy-to-use application that integrates with the tools you already use to help you get work done. Over 1,000 new businesses choose Manymoon each week to track any type of work activity with anyone from anywhere.
We’re looking forward to even more growth in 2011, and are thrilled to now be part of salesforce.com, the leader in enterprise cloud computing, to continue to deliver an amazing social productivity application for everyone to use.
What Does This Mean for Manymoon Customers?
We’ll still be the Manymoon that helps you get work done. The Manymoon team will remain intact and will operate as a separate business within salesforce.com so we can continue our focus on building a great social app that makes our customers more productive and successful every day.
The Manymoon you know and love will remain the same:
Salesforce.com and Manymoon Together
Our approach to the market remains unchanged: work with the tools that people already use online (Google Apps, LinkedIn, Chrome), build an app that requires no training or setup, focus on serving the daily productivity needs of professionals and be on the cutting edge of the latest technologies like HTML5. As we’ve grown, we’ve learned that serving customers is more than just building an app with nifty features. It includes providing scalability, security, performance and support – all areas in which salesforce.com has a proven track record.
Like most startups, we admire salesforce.com as the original cloud computing company that made this industry possible. Over the last 12 years salesforce.com has been an evangelist and driver for bringing applications, platforms and collaboration to the cloud. We’re excited to be part of their vision for cloud, social and mobile, utilize their knowledge and experience to build a world-class social productivity app, and move even faster in delivering new capabilities to you!
What’s Next?
We are going to invest more in what you’ve told us you like about Manymoon: Google Apps Marketplace, LinkedIn and Chrome Web Store support. You can expect to see many of the key social productivity features you’ve requested released in the near future. We’re also going to be working on some exciting, new developments in the coming months…so stay tuned!
Thanks,
The Manymoon Team
Manymoon recently took first place in a contest run by Google to see which app vendor could drive the most installs in the Apps Marketplace in one week.
Our secret: Satisfied users who were using Manymoon stand-alone and were willing to take the next step and install Manymoon into their Google Apps account. See http://bit.ly/clejYs
For more on Manymoon with Google Apps, please see http://bit.ly/9KafPY
Exciting news! Manymoon and one of our customers, Le Moyne College, were featured in the Official Google Enterprise Blog!
The blog post focused on how schools and students use Google Apps with other tools from the Google Apps Marketplace. Google Apps and Manymoon are a powerful combination that enhance the learning experience.
Professor Jim Dessauer at Le Moyne College described how he uses Manymoon and Google Apps to organize a major initiative on juvenile justice. Manymoon allows him to coordinate classes and assignments between faculty, college students and local high school students involved in the project. Prof. Dessauer says Manymoon “saves lots of time for me and my students.”
We know this is someone you’ll love.
Meet David Goldbrenner who joined Manymoon and will be responsible for interacting with customers in all ways possible. He’s going to be the voice of customers inside of Manymoon and keep us focused on meeting their needs.
He’ll be responsible for customer support, communicating with our customers online and gathering feature requests.
David is and engineer in spirit: he has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Harvard, a Master’s in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and has been involved with numerous web-based collaboration products (this is his 3rd startup). David is a productivity aficionado and can tell you how many clicks it takes to create a calendar event in iOS vs Web OS.
Outside of work David enjoys camping, hiking, enjoying San Francisco and having dinner with friends.
We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the Manymoon team—Adrian Chang. Adrian is a front-end engineer who 
also works on Manymoon’s product design and architecture, testing and engineering maintenance. His primary focus is working on Manymoon’s user facing portions of the product, but he contributes all over the place!
He’s comes to us from Cisco Quad where he did coding on the user-facing portions of the product and created an Opensocial container within Quad. Before that he was at school at the University of Washington-Bothell.
When he’s not thinking about ways to improve Manymoon, he’s pursuing his other interests…technology and investing.
“It is exciting to see people tackle existing problems in different ways or solving problems no one has tried to solve before. Keeping up to date with the technology also provides me with new and different ideas that can be incorporated into Manymoon,” Adrian reveals.
When Adrian’s totally kicking back, he loves watching television because it offers an interesting view into different parts of the world, or views of the world that will never exist.
At Manymoon we know there are obvious economical and environmental benefits in reducing the amount of paper we use, but we also think going paperless can boost productivity and efficiency. Here are some of our favorite ways to reduce paper (while increasing productivity!). Please comment below and share more of your ideas and tips!
1. Use the Cloud, Not The Filing Cabinet
Does your team print and store important documents in filing cabinets? Instead of printing them out and filing them away, save them online! Using online documents like Google Docs makes it easy to share and access your documents from anywhere, and offers version control–the latest version of the doc is always online. Storage sites like Manymoon and Box.net offer data redundancy and frequent back-ups, keeping your documents safer online than in any offline storage unit. Your documents will be easier to retrieve, neatly organized and you’ll rest assured that important documents are available when you need them.
2. Make Electronic To-do Lists
We find to-do lists extremely helpful in managing our lives…but often found ourselves with multiple written to-do lists..easily lost and not extremely reliable. Now instead of written lists, we create tasks in Manymoon–allowing us to set reminders and deadlines for ourselves. Manymoon also sends you daily e-mail reminders of your tasks due each day to eliminate the need for keeping a written “task list” at your desk. Plus, with Manymoon you can assign tasks to others, without having to write it down. You’ll still get that great buzz from crossing tasks off your list–and be able to keep yourself even more accountable!
3. E-signatures Are Quicker and Easier
Need to get signatures on invoices, forms or contracts? Don’t bother with printing and faxing–use e-signatures instead. E-signatures allow you to send documents to recipients, and lets them sign and respond completely electronically. No paper needed, plus quicker turn-around. We’ve found Echo Sign, another app in the Google Apps Marketplace, to be a great tool.
4. Ditch Hand-Outs in Meetings
Instead of creating printed hand-outs for your next meeting, use a screen and projector or encourage your team to bring laptops for viewing documents. We’ve found that our team is more attentive when looking at a shared screen, and we love that we no longer have stray packets of printed hand-outs left in meeting rooms only to be tossed in the recycling minutes after a meeting ends. Digital meeting hand-outs also mean you don’t have to worry about outdated versions of your content getting into the wrong hands–everyone will be working off the same (most-recent) document!
5. Business Cards Are So 1990
Instead of exchanging business cards, send quick emails and immediately connect via LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter. Connecting via social networks allows for an exchange of more information, keeps your contacts’ information current, and you’re less apt to lose contacts (like you currently do with those pesky business cards).
We want more of your tips–please add them as comments below! 1st and 3rd responses get 1 GB additional Manymoon storage free!
