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Bulk Scanning Discount: Simplify Spring Cleaning With OfficeDrop

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Spring is just around the corner - a time of rebirth, renewal, rabbits, eggs (?), and of course, spring cleaning. We’re not sure why everyone decided spring was the time for cleaning - maybe to curb the excitement that stems from the culmination of winter - who knows?

If you find your office “celebrates” spring with an annual ritual of sifting through stacks of paper and ordering files in cabinets, we have a better, more permanent, way to handle your spring cleaning.

Bulk Scan your Paper with OfficeDrop (Discounted for Spring Cleaning)

Bulk scanning with OfficeDrop’s document scanning service is an easy way to get all your office documents organized online, and keep them that way. To help you celebrate spring cleaning, we are offering $20 off any bulk scanning order of $200 or more until the end of this month. If you’re going to be organizing your paper anyway, why not prep them for scanning and online storage where they can be filed, labeled and managed from any internet connection? All you have to do to prep your documents for online management is to attach documents of each category or label with a paper clip and label that stack. Then just pack them up in the pre-paid boxes we provide and mail them to our secure facility.

If you want, you can even send everything in no particular order in the box at all and organize it later from our convenient online portal. Once they’re all in the system, you can mail us your paper each month as if flows into your office. That way, come next spring, you’ll be able to enjoy the season knowing your documents are secure and organized with OfficeDrop.

How to get the Spring Cleaning Discount

Give us a ring when you place your order at 888-674-6493 and mention this spring cleaning discount. It’s that easy!

Remember, you must place and ship your order in March 2010 to receive this $20 discount, and your bulk scanning order needs to be over $200.

Pixily Will Announce a New Name Soon

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Thank you to all the customers and friends who helped us come up with a new and improved identity! Next week we intend to change our name - but not our service! OfficeDrop customers can expect the same great service - plus some nifty new logos and cool new features. You will still be able to reach us by phone at 888-674-6493 or by our online chat feature, or by our support email or help features. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. And thanks again to all of you who helped us brainstorm, evaluate, and create our new name. We hope you love it!

Also, if you are curious, we will be posting more on the reasons we are making the name change and our process for coming up with a new name, which involved employee brainstorming, recall tests, customer consultation, a large customer survey (and a healthy dose of feedback from our spouses.)

Pixily Moves to Cambridge

Monday, February 8th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that the OfficeDrop office has moved from our Waltham headquarters to an office in Cambridge. The new space will provide us with a lot more room to grow, as well as more space to store and process your documents. We are also excited to be closer to Boston, and closer to talented folks who can aid us with our growth and development.

The security and privacy of your documents is always foremost in our thoughts, and we assure you that our location change will in no way compromise the security of your documents during transfer or processing. In fact, the new office will allow for added security as well as space.

We will soon have new envelopes for our subscription customers with the new address. Until then, we have made arrangements with our postal facility distribution center to have all of your envelopes forwarded to the new location. (In fact, this is already happening.) As you can imagine, there is a pretty meaningful volume of our green scanvelopes through our local postal facility. We know the people there well and they are helping us make this a smooth transition. For our box customers, we have sent new PDF labels to those of you who will be impacted by our transition. We are also maintaining both the new location and the old location for a period of time, ensuring that we will get packages and scanvelopes regardless of where they are sent.

As for our service, customers will receive the same OfficeDrop service they currently enjoy, without having to change anything about how they submit or view their documents. Submission and processing will work the same way, it will just happen in a roomy new office!

We thank you for using OfficeDrop and look forward to serving you from our new Cambridge office.

For your records, our new address is:

OfficeDrop
Suite One
180 Fawcett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-1112

As always, you can call our customer service number toll free at 888-674-6493 if you have any questions.

Pixily’s Twitter Buzz From Xconomy Cloud3 Forum

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

OfficeDrop’s co-founder and chief product officer Anand Rajaram recently spoke at the Xconomy Cloud 3 Forum, providing some valuable insight on cloud economics and costs. Anand knows his stuff, and his presentation got people talking. Here is a list of what they are saying.

OfficeDrop Twitter Buzz at #xcloud

@DavidaDinerman: Hot topics at Xconomy Cloud3; security, accessibility, apps. OfficeDrop: “cloud will do to hardware what open source did for software.” #xcloud

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, OfficeDrop: Moving from device centric to data centric world. OfficeDrop talks to Intuit and Evernote. #xcloud

@joebiron: Anand Rajaram from OfficeDrop: to be in the cooud, your app needs to be stateless #xcloud

@cnolanMTLC: OfficeDrop Think beyond operations for the cloud. #xcloud

@bbuderi: #xcloud words of wisdom from anand rajaram of pixily: dont let cloud dictate your architecture; think beyond operations; backup!

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, OfficeDrop: Don’t let the cloud dictate your product architecture. Think beyond operations to testing, QA. #xcloud

@Iancelevy: #xcloud - OfficeDrop SAAS - Paper and digital docs converted to searchable, organized content mgmt.

@wroush: Our Oct 2008 profile of OfficeDrop: http://bit.ly/8ulNnK #xcloud

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, OfficeDrop: “What do we use the cloud for? Everything” - except the doc scanner and the kitchen sink #xcloud

@Carlosselonke: #xcloud. I will try OfficeDrop to put all my paper documents from the Sloan MBA in eletronic format. Hope it is cheap :)

@ConnorFee: #xcloud - OfficeDrop removes the file system for paper and non-paper documents. Send, upload, and Search. Cool concept - Google srch for my docs

@wroush: Interesting - Iron Mountain and OfficeDrop in the same morning - OfficeDrop’s digitization obsoletes IM’s original archival storage biz #xcloud

@Bbuderi: #xcloud OfficeDrop presenting. I’m thinking this is a great xmas present to a cluttered loved one

@Masschallenge: OfficeDrop CPO Anand Rajaram tells a compelling story for creating a google search for our own paper documents. #xcloud

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, chief product officer at OfficeDrop, quotes Larry Ellison saying cloud is “complete gibberish”; but OfficeDrop has canny SaaS #xcloud

@joanmgeoghegan:OfficeDrop says Cloud 2 hardware as OS 2 software #xcloud

@wroush: @anandrajaram Thanks, we were grateful to have such a big crowd for Cloud^3 — many great comments about your OfficeDrop preso. #xcloud

@ConnorFee: @anandrajaram Well said. Portability will be tough as cloud providers are clearly incentivized to lock customers into their platform #xcloud

@cnolanMTLC: @anandrajaram the cloud provides the ability to tap into a global workforce #xcloud

Great comments everyone. Thanks for the tweets!

Pixily @ Xconomy Cloud3 Forum and Unpanel

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I am very excited to be a part of the Xconomy Cloud 3 Forum this Thursday (Dec 10). I will be speaking about our experiences with the Cloud and subsequently be a part of the Unpanel. I am especially excited about the “Un”panel, inspired by un-conferences.  The unpanel will start with a general theme: the practical realities of cloud computing, with an emphasis on the various types of cloud services available today, who’s offering them, how to use them in your business, and maybe how to grow your own cloud services company. But the specific questions will be up to the audience.

I have just put the finishing touches to my talk. I will be sharing our experiences with the Cloud, and specifically the Amazon Web Services, and provide details on how the cloud helps us keep our fixed costs low, scale easily and most importantly, pass on those cost savings to our customers. I have also taken out the crystal ball and ventured into some predictions for the future and identified a few key learnings that anyone new to cloud computing can take advantage of.

There are only a few seats remaining, so Register now to attend what promises to be a great day of learning, sharing and networking. See you there.

June is Innovation Month in New England

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

June is Innovation Month in New England. As Scott Kirsner writes in his recent Globe article, Innovation month is about two things: Connection and Conversation.

As a proud member of the Innovative community in the area we are happy to join the conversation and grow the connections in this area. You can see the torch-bearers of Innovation @ OfficeDrop in these events and more.

  1. June 3 - The Future of Software & the Internet unConference Vikram Kumar, our CTO will be there to share his views.
  2. June 11 - Startups and the Cloud, Prasad Thammineni, our CEO will be part of the Cloud CEO panel.
  3. June 16 - MITX Technology Awards, Yours truly will be there
  4. Updated: June 25 - What’s Next in Tech: Prasad will be attending

The list of all events associated with this month can be found at NE Innovation and Marks Guide. So, stop by, say hello and lets chat.

Pixily to exhibit during Mass Innovation Nights on May 13th

Monday, May 11th, 2009

OfficeDrop will be exhibiting at the Mass Innovation Nights (MIN), event to be held at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation on May 13th at 6:30 PM. Created by Bobbie Carlton and Dan Englander, MIN provides innovators with ways to connect with the social networking world, the main stream media, the marketplace and each other. The event is held once a month, free and open to the public.

OfficeDrop will be giving out FREE OfficeDrop envelopes to all attendees at the event. Hope to see you there.

Here are the details:

6:00 PM: Registration and networking
6:30 PM: Product showcase
8:30 PM: After party

Address:

154 Moody Street
Waltham, 02453

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