When it comes to building your personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our attention. However, for the majority of professionals, the hundreds of people you're emailing day in and day out make up the most important social network you have. Time to rev up your email signature.READ»
Europe's largest IT company recently issued a "zero email" policy; by 2014, Gartner predicts social networking services will replace email as the principal method of interpersonal communications for 20% of business users. So, is email dead--and if so, does it deserve to be snatched from the grave? READ»
Next-generation collaboration tools purport to ‘solve every problem you ever had,’ but what is real and what is noise? Like many new trends, there is enormous hype about anything social today--but to understand how your business will become truly social, start with this primer. READ»
I'm lucky enough not to be drowning in email, so keeping my inbox clean doesn't require zen-like discipline. But for everyone else out there for whom "Inbox Zero" is a fantasy at best, there's a handy web-app called "The Email Game," ...READ»
With snail mail in decline, the U.S. Postal Service is considering huge layoffs and service cutbacks. The designer of email as we know it, VA Shiva Ayyadurai, sees another way to save the business.READ»
Rupert Murdoch's digital properties were aggressively penetrated this week, with a website hacking and a treasure trove of corporate emails stolen. Here's how this sort of catastrophe could hit your company, and what you can do to stop it. READ»
The walking idea machine is hoping the citizens of the Internet will adopt his new 10 Commandments for solving this growing--and growing!--problem. Fast Company spoke with Anderson (not by email) to learn more.READ»
Productivity cult-leader Merlin Mann popularized a concept called Inbox Zero, which holds an empty email inbox up as an ideal state, not unlike Buddhist nirvana. But much like that permanently enlightened state, Inbox Zero is very, ...READ»
To join an email list before 1986, users had to wait for someone to painstakingly adjust the code to include them. For Eric Thomas, that was too uncomputerized for a computerized system.READ»
In this inaugural edition of Work Smart 3, our series on productivity and streamlining your work life, host Amber Mac talks Enchantment with noted influencer Guy Kawasaki. In his new book the serial entrepreneur shares his strategies ...READ»
Google introduced its Priority Inbox system late 2010 to help users tackle the increasing burden of email influx. It's now just published research into how well PI works, and the results are impressive: 6% less time reading email, 13% less time reading crap.READ»
