Archive for the ‘Email’ Category

Stephanie Buck at Mashable offers 11 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Gmail’s New Interface. Google has made a lot of changes to its Gmail app and these are all great suggestions for what to customize and how to best optimize your experience with the interface. Here are her first five recommendations:

1. Display Density
2. Button Labels
3. No Markers
4. Stars
5. Move Icons

Whitson Gordon at Lifehacker offers a list of Top 10 Clever Tricks Built Right Into Gmail. If you’re a Gmail user, you’ll want to know about these lesser-known features. Here are his top five:

1. Add a Snooze Button to Gmail
2. Set Gmail As Your Default Mail Client
3. Access Gmail When It’s Down
4. Set Up Gmail on iOS Like It was Meant to Be
5. Sort Gmail Messages by Size and Get Rid of Data Hogs

DJ Waldow at the Social Media Examiner suggests 9 Ways to Integrate Email and Social Media Marketing. This useful post provides a number of ways to amp up your marketing strategy by combining your social media efforts with email blasts. Here are the first 5 recommendations discussed:

• #1: Include Social Icons in Emails
• #2: Ask Email Subscribers to Share and Connect
• #3: Send a Dedicated Email Campaign
• #4: Provide Incentive
• #5: Promote Email Sign-up Via Social Networks

After taking a few days off last week, I returned to find my email inbox full of hundreds of new messages, so I am looking forward to reading Whitson Gordon’s Top 10 Tricks for Dealing With Email Overload at Lifehacker. Here are the first 5 tricks to spark your interest:

1. Triage Your Email to an Empty Inbox
2. Get Rid of Unwanted Spam
3. Learn to Use the Search Function
4. Use Text Expansion to Save Yourself Hours of Typing
5. Keep It Under Control When You’re On Vacation

Nicole Engard writes about Logging in to Multiple Google Accounts on her What I Learned Today blog. As an increasing number of libraries and universities make the move to Google to host their email and other apps, many of us are ending up with more than one Google account. If you’re wondering how you can sign into both simultaneously, you’ll want to check out Nicole’s quick tutorial.

Dawn Foster at GigaOm writes about how to Take Control of Your Inbox: 9 Ways to Sort Email. If you’re struggling with email overload you’ll want to check out these helpful suggestions for filters and folders to sort and process your email communications:

• Status reports
• High volume subjects
• Twitter messages
• People
• Unimportant