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Welcome to the March 8, 2008 edition of the email productivity blog carnival. Email is a strange thing.  The more you send the more you get which causes you to send more and you end up in this vicious cycle where you can’t seem to get caught up.   If email is part of your work this [...]

In my travels there is one thing about airport security that is consistent…  that one thing is that it is inconsistent.  Sure, there are a few things that have BECOME consistent… you now have to take your shoes off at virtually every airport and you get two chances to pass through the metal detector before [...]

In the past month I have had two full weekends that the blog has been inaccessible due to problems at my webhost – Flexihostings.   I was left no alternative, after another full day today where they could not resolve the problem, but to change webhosts. This evening I moved the entire blog, all images, databases, [...]

Projects Possible has decided to host a Blog Carnival on Email Productivity.  To set the stage I think it is important to understand what a “blog carnival” is.    If you look at the Wikipedia link you will see that a “blog carnival” is a blog event.  It is described a really nothing more than a [...]

In this day and age of email overload I find that I am having to contribute to the overload because individuals that I have exchange email or telephone calls with have committed to do something that invariably it gets buried in their hundreds if not thousands of email. Ultimately they forget the deadline unless I [...]

eBay has recently announced a change in their fee structure.   While some fees are going down, others (the Final Value Fee) is increasing a whopping 66%.  There has always been a “buzz” around eBay fees and whether the approximate 10% of a sale price is really worth what you are getting from eBay.   Sellers on [...]

I work in the software industry and recently in my conversations with a few of our customers I was told that the perception they have of our company is that we nickel and dime them to death.  I of course wanted a little more information and so I probed a bit to find that the [...]

For those that have been tracking my progress with Xobni I have to say that today is a sad day.  After multiple attempts at trying to figure out if there was a way around my problem – nothing could be found – I really didn’t have much choice but to perform the uninstall.  In a nutshell, [...]

I get my fair share of email every day… currently in the 150 – 200 range and that is after they’ve gone through our corporate mail filters so that number does not include spam.   I use Xobni and ClearContext IMS as plugins on my Outlook in order to increase productivity and still I find that I [...]

I posted about my initial Xobni impressions a number of weeks ago.  Recall that Xobni (zob-nee), inboX spelled backward, is a Microsoft Outlook plug-in that provides you with nearly instantaneous access to “the most important information in your email”. This message is a follow-up to that message and provides more insight on my continued use. I think [...]