We encourage all NowDox members to use Gmail. We help each other leverage all the power of Gmail, Google Chat, Google Talk and Mobile Google communication tools...all in support of the Virtual Care Model!
Make sure you have a gmail account. If you already have one, login now thru the NowDox Service Connections page. If you don't yet have one, signup now for a free Gmail. Google Docs lets you manage shared documents and interconnects with GMail easily.
Gmail has text chat you can do from ANY computer, ANYWHERE, as well as from your mobile device. It lets you launch into other services easily from within chat windows. Unlike normal cell phone text messages, your availability is known to the viewer, so communication is more reliable and secure. Learn more and setup Google Chat in your GMail account
Google Talk is the little "chat" application that installs on your computer anywhere, very easily. It notifies you of new chat requests as well as any new Gmail messages. It has additional tools-when you are "chatting" with other who are also using Google Talk at the same time-to quickly send each other an image or other file and review it immediately. There is also a free applet of Google Talk that installs easily on smartphones and enables you to have your mobile phone serve as a "remote control" for your text conversations. Learn more and setup Google Talk
Google instant Video Chat is a personal instant one-on-one Video Tool right from within the process of finding each other with text chat. Learn how to setup the "one-to-one" personal Google Video Chat from your Gmail account. There are a few limitations of this--one person at a time, no screen sharing, and requires the browser to stay open.
For high quality professional video consults, however, we recommend to NowDox members the use of Virtual Consult Rooms, which are a much more powerful, simple, high quality way to collaborate online, and fully supported 7-24-365 by a managed service.