You may have noticed a theme recently on this blog – I’m extremely interested the business and social implications of the increase in email we’re all dealing with. As I read some extremely smart people’s takes on how to deal with email, it’s becoming clear to me that there are two philosophies that do not [...]
Archive for the ‘Inbox Era’ Category
Learn to Email Triage for Success in Life and Business
Email triage is a concept that is going to become more and more prevalent as time goes on. As the world becomes more and more connected, and more and more people discover this wonderfully convenient communication medium, the barrage of email coming at us is not going to abate; it is going to get heavier. [...]
Gmail for Your Domain
I recently mentioned to a colleague that I wished that I could manage email from my work Exchange Server account through Gmail. Although this isn’t exactly what I meant, imagine my surprise when he forwarded me the link to Google’s new beta Gmail hosted service. The idea here is that Google will set up Gmail [...]
Outlook Performance Issues
As I’ve documented previously, I’ve been struggling with performance issues in Outlook for a long time. Well, a friend gave me a suggestion a few days ago that I finally got around to trying today. That suggestion had been made to me in the past, but I wasn’t ready to believe it was the reason [...]
Email Availabilty on Blogs
Scoble has yet again kicked up a bit hornet’s nest with his assertion that bloggers should include their email address. I, for one, agree with him. However, he then goes further and states that the best method to do this is to include the address in a post so that it can be indexed by [...]
Unresponsive Script Error in Firefox Using Gmail
Gmail has been driving me crazy ever since upgrading to Firefox 1.5, particularly when trying to send a relatively large attachment. One of Gmail’s best features is the ability to send attachments that are up to 10 MB in size, but uploading a file of that size simply takes some time. Apparently in Firefox 1.5, [...]
Bad Advice: Editing Email Subject Lines
I’ve seen the same tip on a number of productivity sites and newsletters recently, and each time I see it, it grates on me. The most recent instance is in David Allen’s Productivity Principles email newsletter, although the same tip is described in Gina Trapani’s otherwise wonderful “Geek to Live: Train Others How to Use [...]
It’s not the email that sucks…
Email in and of itself isn’t bad. Even large volumes of email isn’t bad. I love reading relevant information that does not require anything of me, so any lists that I belong to or bulk mail that I subscribe to – all of that is no big deal. Hell, anyone that subscribes to RSS feeds [...]
E-Mail Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Forbes.com today has a report called The Beginning of the End of E-Mail. They postulate that because teens tend to prefer instant messaging (IM) over e-mail, e-mail’s days are numbered: According to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life project, barely 5% of American teens aged 12 to 17 prefer e-mail over instant [...]
Outlook Woes – What To Do?
Well, I’ve decided to give ClearContext another go, after being reminded about it when Scoble mentioned he might give it a try. Robert, I recommend you do; ClearContext is a quality product, as I previously wrote about here. For the past three weeks I’ve been using NEOPro, and I really like it. It has some [...]