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Another Great OfficeDrop Review by a Customer

Friday, August 5th, 2011

It feels great when customers write nice things about us! As the marketing person here at OfficeDrop, I work hard with my team to get reporters to notice us. But when actual paying customers take the time out to write positive reviews of OfficeDrop it really shows off the hard work the development team puts into the product!

OfficeDrop Review by William Higgins

William Higgins
William Higgins

William Higgins is an ECM technologist for a major financial institution in Atlanta, GA. So, he knows what he’s talking about when he discusses managing content and cloud based technologies. His post is called “Scanning Documents to the Cloud with OfficeDrop.

William writes about OfficeDrop on his blog, augusthiggins.net. He says, “I work with Enterprise Content Management (or ECM) systems for a living and have an extensive background in Imaging or Document Capture.  But yet, at home I struggle to find a good way to capture important documents and keep them intelligently organized.”

Of course, this is where OfficeDrop enters the picture!

He starts off by showing how he uses ScanDrop to scan to the cloud, “The user interface is styliezed like the newer Microsoft Office applications with the menu ribbon at the top.  OfficeDrop makes good use of Folders and Labels…”

The he goes on to explain how to use OfficeDrop’s cloud filing system to organize and quickly find documents, “If foldering and labels weren’t enough, OfficeDrop also creates full-text searchable PDF files of the scanned documents you store in the cloud.  This means that even if you don’t spend the time organizing your documents in folders or adding lables, you can still do a “Google”-like fuzzy search of your document contents.”

Thanks for the great write up, William!

Looking for other customer reviews of ScanDrop or customer reviews of OfficeDrop? Check out the OfficeDrop testimonial page.

ReadWriteWeb Writes Up OfficeDrop’s iOS Apps

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

We are happy that ReadWriteWeb has included the new OfficeDrop iPhone PDF and iPad apps in their New Apps write up. It’s great that they liked our app enough to highlight it! The article shows a lot of cool apps, and say about ours, “OfficeDrop: You can scan, search, organize and archive your paper files, PDFs and other documents using this new iPhone/iPad app and view them either on your device or the Web. (Free, iTunes – additional storage available for a fee)”

You can read the blurb on OfficeDrop’s mobile apps in ReadWriteWeb here.

Press on OfficeDrop’s iPhone App

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

We are very happy that some great technology reporters and blogs are writing positive reviews of our new iPhone app! You can get the OfficeDrop iPhone app here.

Here are a couple of the places that have written about the app so far:

July 20, 2011

Free App Turns Your Phone into a Scanner

There are times when you desperately need to scan, search, and edit a document. And wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply use your iPhone to take care of those tasks instead of having to rush into your office? Now you can. All you need to do is grab a free app called OfficeDrop from the Apple App Store and suddenly your dear iPhone will have the capabilities of a basic scanner and its corresponding software — and then some. Read How MSNBC Uses OfficeDrop’s iPhone App for Scanning and Store Documents


July 20, 2011

OfficeDrop Now Available on iOS

OfficeDrop by Pixily has been updated as a universal application for iPhone and iPad. OfficeDrop is an app to scan, search, organize and store your paper files, PDFs and other documents… The OfficeDrop digital filing system is a simple, cost-effective way to scan your paper and manage it online in our searchable web-based document portal. Check out the Cult of iPhone Review of OfficeDrop’s iPhone App


July 20, 2011

It’s in Italian – but it sounds pretty cool

OfficeDrop, l’applicazione per la scansione e la gestione dei propri documenti

OfficeDrop è una delle migliori applicazioni per scannerizzare, organizzare e archiviare PDF, documenti cartacei e non, ricavati dalla cattura di un’immagine dalla fotocamera o da file presenti sul device o su computer. Read the Italian Review of the OfficeDrop iPhone App


And you can learn more about our iPhone PDF scanner, reader, searcher, etc app here.

iCloud and OfficeDrop

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

This is going to be big!

The team here at OfficeDrop was glued to the live updates on Apple’s new iOS and iCloud… and we got pretty excited.

While some pundits have been claiming that iCloud will kill existing document sync, access, collaboration and sharing startups, we think otherwise. OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, was quoted in Macworld and conveyed our excitement about the new announcement. From the Macworld article:

Prasad Thammineni, OfficeDrop’s CEO, said he saw opportunity. Apple’s new service, he said, isn’t necessarily oriented toward business-sized customers—but it could educate those customers about the advantages of cloud storage and expand his company’s market.

“It’s going to educate consumers to say ‘I want my data to go where I go.’ That will prompt customers and small businesses to say they want to do their data the same way,” Thammineni said. He added: “So for us, we see this as a big positive thing.”

We have reason to be so optimistic about Apple’s iCloud. When Microsoft began their “To the Cloud” campaign in November of 2010, we saw our keyword “cloud” related search traffic double from the previous month. And today, this traffic is up 5x what it was before Microsoft began educating the world about the cloud. (Note that while all search traffic for OfficeDrop has grown in that timeframe, it hasn’t grown anything like cloud related traffic. And there was a very distinct, positive change in the cloud related search traffic growth pre and post Microsoft campaign.)

Apple’s iCloud efforts will help propel cloud usage to the masses (or at least beyond the early adopters.) And since Apple is so laser focused on the consumer, OfficeDrop’s target customer base of small business owners will be left searching for a solution that meets their special needs. According to research that we’ve seen, last year only 11% of small businesses were using cloud based SaaS solutions – up from 8% the year before, but still a tiny percentage. And once you go cloud you are 4x more likely to try another cloud solution. If Apple can pull this off they will be the first baby-step into cloud services that our potential customers need!

Finally, our ScanDrop scanning software app thrives on scanning paper into people’s cloud based accounts, and is really designed for customers who use multiple cloud services. So one more strong cloud offering is quite good for ScanDrop, and will help our Mac ScanDrop scanner software revenue grow.

Messiest Office Winners

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Alright! The results are in! Thanks to everyone who voted for the messiest office in our Messiest Office Contest!

The finalists had some real paper problems, but we hope that the following winners will use the prizes that they’ve “earned” to get on the path to a more organized office.

First Place Prize

First place, and winner of $400 Gift Card to Staples, 1/2 Day Virtual Coaching Session with Joshua Zerkel of Custom Living Solutions, 6-month subscription to OfficeDrop is:

“I Had It Just a Minute Ago” by Tim Kral

Messiest Office (c) OfficeDrop 2011

Messiest Office Winner

Some of the comments on this post were amazing: “When we have to go in to do something on his computer, we let others know so that if we don’t come out in 10 minutes they will come looking for us!”

Second Place Prize

Second Place, and winner of a Canon imageFORMULA P-150 Portable Document Scanner, 6-month subscription to OfficeDrop is:

“Messiest Office” by David Holst

Messy Office (c) OfficeDrop 2011

Third Place Prize

Third place, and winner of $50 Gift Card to Staples, 6-month subscription to OfficeDrop is:

“Tsunami in Home Office” by James Stinnett

Messiest Office (c) OfficeDrop 2011Thanks again to everyone who participated, either by voting or uploading a picture of their messy office!

At OfficeDrop, we hope that we can help you go paperless and get organized with our line of scanner software, our mail in scanning service and our desktop to cloud digital filing system and cloud content management service. Contact us if we can help you get organized!

Get Organized and Boost Productivity

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar on Getting Organized and Boosting Productivity through better office and paper management/organization! We had a large number of attendees and there were some great questions at the end of the web class.

Get Organized and Boost Productivity

This webinar was led by certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant Joshua Zerkel. Josh tackled the tricky problem of dealing with documents in a busy office environment, and made it clear that there are substantial benefits to greater organization. He went over everything from setting up the office for optimized productivity to organizing the flow of paper into and out of the office.

Here is a video of the Get Organized webinar:

Other Webinars on Productivity and Organized Offices

Check out the video on Mastering the Paperless Office, using slides from Josh Zerkel! Learn the best steps to begin on the path to reducing your office’s use of paper and hear about some great technologies you can use to make your quest to go paperless easier!

Mastering the Paperless Office

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Video From The Mastering The Paperless Office Webinar

OfficeDrop was lucky enough to have had Joshua Zerkel, Professional Organizer to the San Francisco Bay Area, share with us his slides on how to master the paperless office. Josh makes it clear that there will always be some paper in any small businesses’ office, but there are a number of smart steps and affordable technologies you can use to reduce your use of paper.

Mastering the Paperless Office Video

Here is the video from the last session!

OfficeDrop also recently had another great webinar with Josh – Get Organized and Boost Productivity

Vote On The Messiest Office!

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Over the weekend we narrowed down the messiest office photos to the THE MESSIEST! Now it’s your turn to vote on the pictures to help us pick the top mess!

Click on the image below to vote – there are some real doozies there!

Professional Organizer Webinar Today – Get Organized

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Josh Zerkel, certified Professional Organizer, will be hosting today’s webinar on Getting Organized in a paperless office! You don’t want to miss it – Today, May 20 at Noon ET. Register here.

Mastering the Paperless Office Video

Our last online class was about mastering the paperless office for the small business owner. Here is the video from the last session!

Other Upcoming Webinars

Josh will also be hosting another webinar in the near future. While this one is not affiliated with OfficeDrop, we thought you’d like to know about it since his presentations are so great! This topic will be:

6 Simple Ways to Reclaim Your Day

Sign up here: http://www.customlivingsolutions.com/secret/reclaim-your-day

OfficeDrop Android App Launched!

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go Android App Now Available for Download

We are very pleased to announce the launch of OfficeDrop’s newest mobile app, the OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go Android App! OfficeDrop’s Android App allows Android users to simply snap a photo of a paper document and scan it directly to the cloud. Within the app, users can organize, search, share and access documents from anywhere with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet. Also available for iPad, OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go can now be downloaded through the Android Market (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.officedrop.applicationactivity&feature=search_result) and will soon be offered through the Amazon App Store.

OfficeDrop Android App

OfficeDrop Android App

This newest app is something that our customers have been asking for, and over the past six months it has become obvious that mobile access to our digital filing cabinet is a must-have feature. We know that the busy professionals who are our customers love having access to their paper and digital files from the road via our web browser and our desktop digital cloud connector. Being able to search, organize and share from the road will make it even easier to carry your filing cabinet with you where ever your business takes you.

Scan From Android

The OfficeDrop Android App also lets you scan right from your phone, using the phone’s camera to snap multiple page documents and convert them into text searchable PDFs. Some of our customers are already using their phones to snap photos of things like receipts while on the road – this makes it even easier to grab PDFs on the go. You can use it to organize your business receipts while travelling, share just signed contracts, get invoices back to the home office and more! Because you can pick a destination folder and add labels at the time of scanning, organizing is simple and fast. And since everything becomes text searchable, finding the piece of paper has never been easier.

Other Great Paper to Go Features

Compatible with version 2.2 of Android, the app allows OfficeDrop users to send documents straight to the cloud – either by taking a picture or by uploading files already stored on the device. Other key features include:

  • Search: Documents become text-searchable once they’re uploaded using OCR technology.
  • Tagging: Files can be tagged with keywords for easy sorting and retrieval.
  • Compatibility: Works on your Windows PC, your browser or your iPad.
  • Security: As with other OfficeDrop apps and services, all files sent through the system are fully encrypted.

Let us know what you think about our newest app!

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