One Button to Merge All Duplicate Contacts (Gmail)

Gmail Blog: Man­ag­ing a big address book can be a chal­lenge, so it's no sur­prise that the top request for Google con­tacts is a fast, easy way to merge dupli­cate con­tacts. You've been able to merge con­tacts one-by-one for a while, but now we've added a sin­gle but­ton that merges all your dupli­cate con­tacts at once. This was really needed. via Offi­cial Gmail Blog.  Read More

Use OutLook? Liaise Intelligent Assistant Available Now

Mar­shall Kirkpatrick: Out­look users can now use email plug-in Liaise to auto­mat­i­cally extract action items, del­e­ga­tion and pri­or­ity lev­els from the free text of email conversations. I don’t use Win­dows so I have yet to try this, but it looks use­ful. How­ever I don’t agree with the sen­ti­ment that this tool makes Mac users jeal­ous of Win­dows users. via Use Out­Look? Liaise Intel­li­gent Assis­tant Avail­able Now.  Read More

Cure Your E-Mail Addiction

Unclut­terer: via Cure your e-mail addiction  Read More

Tips to Higher E-Mail Productivity

Qui­etSpac­ing: This is a short seg­ment of a pre­sen­ta­tion I recently deliv­ered on how to improve your e-mail pro­duc­tiv­ity. The top­ics cov­ered include: Turn­ing off your new e-mail alerts. Batch pro­cess­ing your e-mail. Sub­ject line nam­ing conventions. One sub­ject per e-mail. Reduc­ing the use of Reply All. Drag & Drop functionality. via Qui­etSpac­ing.  Read More

Hating E-Mail

Jonathan Littman: I would add that email has also become the lazy per­sons sav­ior. Instead of seek­ing an answer our­selves we often just email some­one we think will know, shift­ing the bur­den and work to them. That is why I hate email. via I Hate People…But It’s Noth­ing Per­sonal.  Read More