Productivity Apps you just can’t miss

While looking for ways to boost our productivity, we usually focus on the most popular methods – calendars and scheduling, to-do lists, and E-mail management. But you’d be doing yourself a disservice if you stopped at …

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Making MS Office more collaborative

Despite the availability of online document creation tools (like those found in Google Apps) or even free alternatives like OpenOffice, the Microsoft Office suite remains the gold standard as far as basic business applications are …

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Busting Email Spam on Google Apps

There was a time when spam was regarded as a major threat to the smooth functioning of E-mail. Apart from the network overhead caused by spam, other issues such as malware were constantly on network admins’ minds. Then there was …

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Enhancing Email as a Sales Tool

For a tool as heavily used and as ubiquitous, E-mail’s true power is rarely exploited by users. While many of us spend a lot of time each day going through our inboxes, searching, sending messages, and replying back, …

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Email scheduling for Gmail, Outlook and Thunderbird

The reason why E-mail is the undisputed king of business communications lies in its convenience and power. E-mail is ‘free’, can be made secure (read our post on E-mail signing), and lets you send files and documents with ease. But …

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Enterprise 2.0 and the Newsfeeds madness

We recently came across a succinct post on the obsession with newsfeeds as a central enterprise social collaboration idea by Sameer Patel. Sameer says: — .. as the pendulum swings carelessly from people to people, to machine to people and …

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The case for Email as a Collaboration Tool

Email is the de facto standard tool when it comes to collaborating with colleagues, customers, partners etc. It is simple, available to everyone on all platforms/devices, and yields itself very easily to any kind of use. Writing an email and …

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Integrate your Email with Dropbox using IFTTT

Automation is the name of the game when it comes to using technology to improve your workflow efficiency. Thanks to an ever-increasing level of connectivity between services, it’s now possible to integrate several different ones, …

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Your most productive time of the day

There are few things as annoying as early mornings. Some days, the very act of getting out of bed can be a real struggle. For many of us, early mornings are an unavoidably sad fact of the modern world. “Why,” …

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Stay secure with Digitally Signed Email

Back in the heady days when computers were just making an appearance at the workplace, there was a feeling these new devices would soon usher in that rather utopian concept of a paperless office. However, those initial dreams seem to …

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