The Scheduling Network: A Paradigm Shift in Productivity What if every meeting you schedule happens instantly, with zero back and forth, zero calendar-peeping, and zero intervention by you? That’s exactly what happens when you connect with your contacts on the x.ai scheduling network. Meetings between you and your connections land on everyone’s calendars instantly! Five…
Category: Productivity
An Interview with Dennis Mortensen by Jay Block
The following is an interview conducted with x.ai CEO Dennis Mortensen by Jay Block. As the CEO of the Small Business Journal, Jay creates wicked good content for small businesses and consults with them on PR strategy. He is also a long-time user of x.ai, and you may have even seen him as a guest…
New: Control Follow Up Frequency for Meeting Scheduling
Sometimes you absolutely must get a meeting on the calendar and it is imperative that your guests respond. Other times it would be swell to have a leisurely meeting, but you certainly don’t want to be impolite by asking too often. Well, now you can have it either way with follow up controls and updates…
New: Notify Zapier of Meeting Reschedules
The x.ai and Zapier integration has long been a powerful way to keep all of your apps in sync with your calendar. When a meeting is scheduled or cancelled, x.ai notifies Zapier’s system that the event occurred and users can then route that information to an ever-growing list of apps that are connected to Zapier……
What is a Scheduling Network?
The current mood is to disparage social networks. They’re addictive. They’re polarizing. And they often expose our data to nefarious actors. Fair enough. But it’s not the whole story. If we lump all social networks into this category, we miss some of the most exciting technological developments of the last decade. Better to think of…
Virtual Meeting Software: Who Meets Your Needs?
There is no shortage of choices when it comes to virtual meeting software. Skype used to be the industry standard for free video calling, overseas calls, and instant messaging between professionals. In recent years Zoom has usurped the title of industry standard virtual meeting software, offering crystal clear audio, seamless video, and advanced capabilities for…
How AI Is Making Sales Jobs Easier
AI is here to stay and we know that better than anyone. But the patterns of adoption have been unevenly distributed across industries. According to several studies, businesses featuring marketing and sales accounted for more than 50 percent of all AI investments. Several companies have already sunk serious amounts into Artificial Intelligence projects with promising…
How to keep your productivity new year’s resolution
Given that “getting organized” ranks as the second most-searched resolution (with over 33 million searches), productivity and personal efficiency is clearly on a lot of people’s minds around this time of year. However, since we’re in the second week of January, we’re statistically ⅓ of the way to the date when 80% of resolutions fail.…
Your holiday schedule, without the stress
Holidays, the ultimate time to relax. What a load of crap. You know how it really goes, don’t you? Scramble to finish all the work you need to complete to hit your annual goals. Frantically track down misdelivered packages. Struggle through bottlenecks at the airport. Bottlenecks on the highway. Bottlenecks in store checkout lines. And…
How the 2018 election affected your workweek
Blue wave? Red wall? We’ll leave the political analysis of the 2018 midterms results to the pundits. We’re interested in how the 2018 election affected your workweek. More specifically, what happened to meetings scheduled on Election Day and the day after? Following the 2016 election, we reported a substantial dip in meetings scheduled. With what…
Ridiculously Efficient Scheduling Software for Everyone
Today is the day. We believe we’ve finally cracked the scheduling-for-everyone challenge.
The A.M.Y. rules of (meeting) engagement
By following the A.M.Y. rules for (meeting) engagement, you can set up more productive meetings.