Lately, I've been experimenting with using Twitter as email to see whether it would streamline my digital communication efforts. As often as possible, I've used direct messages or @ replies to contact colleagues and other work buddies instead of email. So far, I like it. Here are...
On the weekdays, I typically focus on work productivity, but since it's the weekend, I couldn't resist sharing three time-saving tricks that gave me over six hours back this week. Six hours, 1 minute and 30 seconds, to be exact -- and the number will likely...
Unroll.me is a startup with a mission to declutter your inbox by consolidating mailing lists or newsletters you like into one daily digest, called a Rollup, and making it simple for you to unsubscribe from mailing lists you'd rather not be on. I used Unroll.me to...
Baydin, the team behind the Boomerang email plugin, released an infographic that sheds light on the best words to use if you want to maximize email responses. Surprisingly, both positive ("demo," "opportunity," "connect") and negative ("cancellation," "payments") words proved to...
Work email answered after employees' shifts can qualify for overtime pay, according to a law passed in Brazil last month. The legislation asserts that company emails are akin to direct orders; accordingly, employees should be compensated for following these orders. Brazil's new attitude towards after-hours email is...
I just received my ToutApp 2011 Year in Review report, and since I wrote about the email-analyzing service earlier this year, I thought I'd follow up with my results. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the email patterns ToutApp surfaced meshed so well with the productivity and...
