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5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Hate Their Jobs

5 Ways Email Makes Your Employees Hate Their Jobs

By Jacob Morgan on January 31, 2014

It can sound like a gentle wave, an eager ding, or perhaps a vibration on our phone felt from a pocket. It’s email, and regardless of how much we talk about the future of work and collaboration, we cannot ignore this blaring reality of all employee lives. Email keeps us handcuffed to our phones and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged communication, culture, email, email hell, email sucks, getting rid of email

The Origin of Email

The Origin of Email

By Guest Authors on May 7, 2013

I have a surprise for you. The inventor of email did not invent email. Email was actually invented by the Bell System and was in commercial operation long before the Arpanet even existed. This is an interesting story… False The invention of email is widely credited to be Ray Tomlinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson) in 1971. In one especially […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged Arpanet, ATT, Bell Lab, Bell System, email, Western Union | 1 Response

How to Lose Your Work in Gmail in One Simple Step

How to Lose Your Work in Gmail in One Simple Step

By Zoli Erdos on April 30, 2012

I’ve been planning to come back from my “blogging hiatus” (code for writers’ block) with a more substantial piece.  After all, my drafts folder is full of half-baked, abandoned posts. But hey, no better incentive to write then frustration! Have you ever seen this error? Yes, I’ve just finished composing email, hit SEND, and thought […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged email, fail, GFail, gmail, google, google apps

Ctrl – Alt – Social

Ctrl – Alt – Social

By John Taschek on February 21, 2012

In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged @irregulars, @jtaschek, @stevegillmor, @toppundit, activity stream, chatter, collaboration, email, enterprise irregulars, facebook, Groupware, salesforce.com, social, Web/Tech, Weblogs

The Fastest Way to Lose Your $3 Million a Year Job? Have a Zero email Policy

The Fastest Way to Lose Your $3 Million a Year Job? Have a Zero email Policy

By Mark Fidelman on December 16, 2011

Every time I see an anti-email blog post or even more amusingly a company that issues a zero email policy, I’m always reminded of one of my favorite Einstein lines,  “”Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” You have to admire CEO Thierry Breton of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged atos, email, enterprise 2.0, thierry breton

Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

By Mark Suster on September 28, 2011

Email. Ah, email. That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” I was lamenting it tonight when I saw the most brilliant response Tweet by Andrew Hyde  “inbox = tetris getting zero […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged email, productivity, twitter | 1 Response

How To Fix The Inbox

How To Fix The Inbox

By Chris Yeh on August 19, 2011

I’m notorious for the amount of email I receive and the difficulties I have keeping up with it. My best estimate is that I receive about 200-300 emails each day. On those few blessed occasions when I do get my inbox into single or double digits, I feel both enormously productive and focused. (Alas, the […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged email, gmail, inbox, startupideas, task management | 2 Responses

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Learn From the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)

By Zoli Erdos on February 28, 2011

A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday.  Their account was accidentally “reset”.  Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute.  Is […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged backup, data backup, email, email backup, Email client, gmail, google, google apps, hotmail, IMAP, outlook, pop, thunderbird, yahoo mail, zoho mail | 6 Responses

Google's Disruption Of Enterprise Email Market And Their "Social Challenges"

Google’s Disruption Of Enterprise Email Market And Their “Social Challenges”

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 24, 2011

Ever since Gmail captured the imagination of consumers, Google has been trying to push Google Apps to enterprise customers. In spite of some news about problems in their implementation for big customers, it has been gaining traction steadily. The biggest attraction towards Google Apps Email over other systems is the cost. Even though other players […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged chatter, cisco, email, google, google apps, IBM, insights, saas, salesforce, salesforce chatter, salesforce.com, social, Social Business, tibbr, webex email | 8 Responses

Can We Take Availability Off Cloud Concerns List?

Can We Take Availability Off Cloud Concerns List?

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 15, 2011

One of the concerns cited by people who believe in traditional ways of computing is the issue of service availability in the public clouds. For reasons known only to psychiatrists, they associate availability to the presence of the software inside their organizational boundaries. If we talk to enterprise users who use email system hosted on-premise, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged availability, cloud computing, cloud email, email, gmail, google apps, High Availability, insights, messaging, On-premise email, saas, sla | 8 Responses

Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor

Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 9, 2010

One of the interesting acquisitions by Google, in my point of view, was their 2007 acquisition of Postini. In fact, it was the main driving force behind somewhat successful push of Google Apps into the enterprises. Today, Google is wearing the Postini mask again as it attempts a long term strategy to get more exchange […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged business continuity, email, enterprise email, enterprises, exchange, google apps, google message continuity, postini | 2 Responses

Phone Cameras + Social Are Expanding the Historical Record

Phone Cameras + Social Are Expanding the Historical Record

By Hutch Carpenter on November 8, 2010

“There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” In a critique of the rise of Instagram (current photo sharing app du jour), Laurie Voss argues that the rise of cheap, low fidelity cameras on phones is undermining the data contained in them. And it’s not just […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged camera, email, facebook, geek, History, iphone, lincoln, phones, social media, twitter, us airways | 1 Response

Email’s New Freight – Posting to Social Sites

Email’s New Freight – Posting to Social Sites

By Hutch Carpenter on September 30, 2010

This post is a test of something I have not yet tried with wordpress.com: posting by email. It’s meant to be mostly an experiment. But it’s also a realization that in a mobile world, email has a new found importance. Delivering social content payloads. In a separate effort, I’m trying to get things done (GTD!) […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged blogging, email, safari, wordpress

GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth... in Search of Revenue.

GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.

By Zoli Erdos on September 29, 2010

I’ve been long-time Gmail fan, having used it from the very early days, for almost 5 years now. The key reasons why I switched and have stuck with the service ever since were the productivity boosters, first of all: Threaded conversations Labels Search Google did to email what all new product teams should: throw away […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Conversation threading, email, folders, gmail, google, labels, Microsoft Outlook, productivity, search, zoho | 3 Responses

Should I sell out my friends privacy to win an Ipad?

Should I sell out my friends privacy to win an Ipad?

By Dan Morrill on September 20, 2010

What is not part of the argument online is that I have almost daily offers to sell out my friends contact information for some cool stuff like the chance to win an Ipad, or other such shiny new toy.

Posted in Security | Tagged candy bar, email, facebook, free, giveaway, ipad, Misc Technology, privacy

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