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Guest blog by Roy Rasmussen
Co-author of Cloud Computing Simplified for Small Businesses for DMS & Associates

CX group chat has expanded recently, providing yet another feature that sets CX apart as a business collaboration tool. While many of us are used to using chat for personal purposes, group chat also has a number of valuable functions in a business context. These applications range from collaboration, training, and tech support, to promotion and sales. Here are some ways you can use group chat to conduct your business more efficiently. (more…)

The author, Dan Smoker, with his family

By Dan Smoker
Director of Development

How many of you out there have large families? I would have to raise my hand for this. While my immediate family isn’t huge, my parents had 20 siblings combined, meaning I had a plethora of cousins to play with when I was younger. Large families are great. Connected large families are even better, but that is difficult when the family is spread over 10 states and two countries.

How we overcome that is with a triennial reunion. This year was my mom’s side of the family’s reunion. The family (12 siblings!) splits the duties every 3 years among four geographical regions. We were “in charge” this year. As you can imagine, with more than 100 people attending, it is quite the undertaking! We are fortunate that e-mail is now on our side, but even e-mailing all of these details makes for a full inbox! This is where CX.com came in. I made a group for the reunion about 6 months ago, and it became where people would go for any and all reunion details. One “invite” email was sent, and it was that easy — all of the siblings, their children and grandchildren could easily register and choose to be notified via e-mail whenever anything was added. (more…)

We’re always intrigued by the diverse ways our CX online storage users use CX both personally and professionally. Just like we have many different types of users from all around the world, the CX cloud storage application has been adopted in a variety of circumstances, from storing contacts to collaborating with co-workers miles away. Check out just a few CX case studies from some of our savvy users below.

From CX user Richard McAroy: I use Groups to archive veterinary documents to include drug dosage tables, medical treatment protocols and client handouts. The veterinary Group members all contribute to our database on CX, and the chat function comes in handy for doctors to send questions to other Group members. (more…)

A few days ago, we told you all about CX.com for Business, the latest offering from CX that gives small businesses personalized dashboards with all the great functions of CX, including groups, chat and safe and secure access-from-anywhere cloud storage. And with real-time notifications on file changes and unlimited revisions with CX Rewind, co-workers have no problem keeping on top of business developments when they use CX.com for Business. Want to learn more about our very exciting product? Check out our YouTube tutorial after the jump. (more…)

Jan Vandenbos

Jan Vandenbos
Chief Technology Officer

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Hometown: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Current location: Pacific Northwest

How long have you been with CX? 16 months.

What is your typical day like? I spend a lot of the day with a phone glued to my ear (need an implant) talking to customers, partners, other industry members and the CX team about the cloud, cloud-related technologies, our products and the direction we’re taking at CX. My role also dictates that I spend a lot of time in aircraft flying around to meet with these interested parties and between our development offices (we’re a very virtual/distributed team). Although I do a fair bit of technical advising internally, I don’t get to code much these days, but am very happy that we’ve been able to hire an awesome team to build our product. (more…)