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Case Study - Using tgethr with your family

A few months ago we launched a survey about how people use tgethr and how we can improve. Here’s a good example of a person using tgethr to stay in touch with their family. Let us know how you are using tgethr.

How did you discover tgethr?

Friend or colleague

How would you feel if you could no longer use tgethr?

Very disappointed: I use it pretty much daily and it’s great for keeping in touch with friends and family and sending / getting updates that probably wouldn’t be communicated otherwise!

What would you likely use as an alternative if tgethr were no longer available?

I would use: Facebook

What is the primary benefit that you have received from tgethr?

More communication with family

Have you recommended tgethr to others?

Yes: Not sure I’ve recommended it to anyone who isn’t already using it (hmm… will think about that), but have definitely encouraged my friends and family to use tgethr instead of sending emails to groups through individual email addresses…

What type of person do you think would benefit most from tgethr?

Someone who doesn’t like to publicize life events on something like facebook but who still wants to keep in touch with friends and family

How can we improve tgethr to better meet your needs?

Love the new feature for grabbing contacts from other tgethr groups or hotmail, etc when creating a new group!

Tgethr is easier than nailing Jell-O to a tree

“We’ve said it before. Countless times. Online collaboration is great. But sometimes, it’s just harder than nailing Jell-O to a tree. With people spread all over hither and yon, it’s increasingly complex to keep track of things, to collaborate, to simply get things done.

Ever on the lookout for online collaboration tools, we’ve seen some that are pretty neat, but they all require every person on a project to log into a new site and register in order to take advantage. We’re always on the hunt for something simple.

We think we may have found it with tgethr.”

Thanks for the glowing review guys! You can read the entire review here.

You Care Too Much What Other People Think

Saw a clip on Better Off Ted that’s a good reminder that sometimes it really doesn’t matter what other people think of an idea you have.

The best feedback is the time when a customer pulls out their wallet and pays for whatever your idea is. That’s why the goal should be getting something in the hands of your potential customers with a price tag on it very quickly.

There’s a lot of great examples of listening to your intuition instead of just relying on what customers tell you is a good idea from people like Steve Jobs and Henry Ford.

Here’s one I saw recently in Barbarians to Bureaucrats by Lawrence M. Miller. He writes about how McDonalds started out their drive ins with car hops bringing food to their customers.

These drive ins were doing extremely well, but then they decided to throw that away and make it even better. Dick McDonald one of the original founders said, ”the carhops were slow. We’d say to ourselves that there had to be a faster way. The cars were jamming up the lot. Customers weren’t demanding it, but our intuition told us that they would like speed.”

They made a keen observation of how their world could be better and they went with it instead of relying on everyone else around them to reinforce their ego. This decision of theirs increased their sales by 40% and obviously was part of history in revolutionizing fast food.

We’re big believers obviosuly in asking your customers and your employees for their thoughts and predictions on all sorts of things. But often as an innovator, it’s your job to listen for the root cause behind feedback you get rather than react to it literally.

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Product Update: Tgethr now integrates with other services like Dropbox

We wanted to show you a very cool new feature to tgethr we launched today. It’s the ability to add on 3rd party services to any of your groups.

There’s a lot of great apps out there, that just don’t do email. For example Dropbox is a tremendous service for syncing files amongst computers and sharing with a team. But lots of people just want to forward emails that have attachments (from iPhones for example) into their dropbox.

Tgethr now gives you a very versatile email address you can do things like this with. So after you create a Tgethr account, here we are creating a group we’ll use with Dropbox.

You can pick as simple or complex of an email as you want. Remember, if the email is too simple you may receive some spam to this email address if the spammer can guess both your tgethr email address as well as your personal email address. That’s way we also offer accounts where you can use an email certificate and completely eliminate any spam to a very simply named tgethr group.

If you just need a simple way to email Dropbox and not collaborate with anyone feel free to invite no one else to your group.

After your group is created, click edit.

Then click the “add additional services to your tgethr group”

Here you can pick services that you want to add. We are busy adding some fun ones that we need, but let us know if there’s something you really need.

After clicking “Add Dropbox”, we tell tgethr a username/password combination we have at Dropbox. We also can tell tgethr a root folder we’d like to place any of these files. Here we’ll use “project_files”.

That’s all there is to it. Next time you email this tgethr group or use the tgethr web interface to share a file with the group, that file will also automatically get sent to your drop box folder.

If you want to add any other folders to “project_files” you can add a hashtag like this to your message:

And those additional folders will get created and used for you. Like so:

Hope you’ve been enjoying tgethr and the holidays!

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“Tired of your Social Network?”

You can count your true friends on one hand. In fact, I have all my true friends in tgethr groups :) where I can talk with them privately over email. Not have to feel like I’m trying to shout for their attention at the loud party that is Facebook.

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“Inevitably, as our list of friends grew to encompass acquaintances, friends of friends and the girl who sat behind us in seventh-grade homeroom, online friendships became devalued.”

This is one of the main reasons we created tgethr. We use tgethr for so many things right now, the most important of which is communicating amongst ourselves in a business. But also with family and friends.

We’ve seen personal pictures end up on strangers blogs because of Facebook. We’ve seen parents say embarrassing things on our walls publicly :) So as many of these sites devalue “friends”, we try to go the opposite direction. Keep your conversations private.

Tgethr will be down for 15-30 minutes this evening at 10pm Central.

We will be performing some upgrades that require us to bring tgethr down shortly. Sorry about having to do that, it’s very rare, but luckily tgethr is growing and needs some more room to keep growing!

UPDATE: We are up at 10:37PM Central but will be down again soon for a short bit. Will update this when everything is back to normal.

FINAL UPDATE: All is back to normal. Sorry for the ups and downs this evening.

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Chat with us at tgethr for support or whatever you need

Just added a “chat with support” button to tgethr. If there’s anything you ever want to talk about feel free to drop in and let us know what’s up. Here’s a direct link to the chat room. Hope you find it handy.

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