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It’s a Sad Day – I Uninstalled Xobni
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, [...]
Email Etiquette – Think Before You Press the Send Button!
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 [...]
Xobni – My Continuing Adventure!
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 [...]
VOIP – My Pros and Cons
VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol is telephone service via your high speed Internet connection. You basically sign up with one of the many Voice Over Internet Providers, they send you a piece of hardware that you connect to your network, you plug a phone into this hardware and like magic you have dial-tone. Well at least that’s [...]
Xobni Review – Initial Impressions
I stumbled upon the Xobni (Zob-nee) website when I was looking for email productivity tools. After reading all of the pages, watching the video (see below) and signing up for the beta I was a bit disappointed that I could not immediately begin trying out what appeared to be a great tool. They did however offer [...]
What Tools Do You Use to Manage Projects?
As a project manager, I am always looking for great tools and utilities that will help me to become more productive and improve customer (internal and external) experience. I know about the standard stuff that we use like Microsoft Project, Mindmapper, Excel, Outlook and the like. What I would be interested in is hearing what [...]
How I Manage Projects with Outlook and Excel
There are a LOT of theories and ideas floating around to help with time management and productivity. Classes and seminars are offered, books are published, and websites and blogs are posted all to try to help us better manage our lives. For this author there has been no one method to help with time and productivity [...]
Getting Help with Microsoft Excel – My Recent Experience
By my own admission I am NOT a Microsoft Excel expert. I know enough about the application to make me dangerous. I use Excel pretty extensively in my day to day work activities, and in my continuing effort to streamline my day I decided that I needed to add some functionality to my project management [...]
ClearContext IMS Review – How to Manage Email
The ClearContext IMS (Information Management System) v4 Outlook Add-in has been released. This new release adds some great features and functionality. Included below are the ones that I have tested and use. I have also done a prior review on overall features and functions that I use that you can find here. With IMS I have found [...]
ClearContext for Outlook
There are a couple of Outlook addin applications that I use and use quite extensively. ClearContext is one of those applications… If you are like me and you deal with a literal ton of email every day you owe it to yourself to take a look at this addin. If you’ve ever wanted to: Unsubscribe from an [...]
