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How to be More Polite and Productive with your Email
Full article can be found HERE…
7 Strategies to Help Manage Email Overload
Email is my nemesis. I use tools like Clear Context and Xobni to help me manage the email that I have but it still seems to be absolutely overwhelming at times. In my blog perusals today I found a great article on Dr Dewett’s Weekly Column entitled Feeling Bogged Down by Your Email. The strategies [...]
Xobni – In All Fairness… an Update
It was pointed out to me by a reader via email that I haven’t really kept you all in the loop with my Xobni saga… So this brief post will hopefully get you all up to speed and give you some insight of what I am working through and still hope to get resolved. Unfortunately, [...]
5 Quick Email Productivity Tips
You know I am always looking for productivity tips and tricks, particularly in the area of email since I am literally inundated with hundreds of them a day. In the area of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) – 43 Folders shares their 5 tips. Elegantly simple yet absolutely right on track… I can honestly say [...]
Email Productivity Blog Carnival – 1st Edition
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 [...]
Blog Carnival – Email Productivity
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 [...]
Email Overload and Reminders – The Nagless, Productive Way!
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
