Email News & Articles

A shot was heard 'round the world this week, as Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo!, and Facebook teamed to lead the fight against email spam scandals. It's news even the least savvy of Internet consumers can understand. Finally, justice for all! Or at least a step in the right direction.

Email isn't dead right? Enterprise collaboration vendor Huddle acknowledges this and has provided a way for organizations to manage their email by integrating it with its collaboration platform.

The end of 2011 is near. Time to contemplate what 2012 will bring us and what won't make it to 2012. For some years now, email (born 1971) has been quite popular on the "dead list."

I know that for most the idea of getting rid of their inbox for good is simply a pipe dream (it's certainly my pipe dream). But until that dream comes to fruition we need to learn how to make that inbox more useful. For those who also use SharePoint in their organization, harmon.ie offers a tool to do just that. And they have the stats to back it up.

The much-anticipated refresh of Google's Gmail service is live for all, with one click taking users to a more spacious, refined email experience.

Most Gmail users added their account to the iPhone's default mail app, and forgot about it. But, finally, there's to be a proper app for that.

Think for a minute about how your company manages its email. How confident are you that it’s as secure as it needs to be? You’re not alone. According to Oasys Limited’s September 2011 Business Behavior & Email Management Project in which they surveyed 1,237 employees across a variety of disciplines, 96% of employees believe their companies face some level of legal risk associated with poor email management. Twenty percent said that their company faces “High Risk.”

Back to Anaheim and Colligo, with the announcement that Colligo has released an eight-product integrated suite of email and document management applications that covers just about every enterprise SharePoint need conceivable across PCs, tablets, laptops and smartphones, on-premise and in the cloud.

This week, Microsoft warns against shifting from BPOS to Office 365 off you own bat, Recommind introduces collaborative and mobile email management, PSIGEN links data and documents in SharePoint, ICG upgrades its redaction software and NextDocs gets a big slice of Series A financing.

New devices, new problems. If you haven’t guessed, we’re talking mobile devices and problems with the management of enterprise content that having a scattered workforce involves. Add to that all the unstructured data that comes in through email, and you’ve got double trouble. Recommind (news, site) is offering a solution to this with the v3.6 release of its Decisiv Email software.

Targeting is not an alien concept to marketing professionals. But as businesses get more intimate with social media and CRM applications, does this mean that social media marketing is also increasingly becoming personalized? A recent survey among marketing professionals gives us a few insights into how firms target and personalize their marketing messages.

With all the problems associated with keeping track of information, particularly now with the multiplication of SharePoint deployments, archiving tools are always welcome -- particularly if they work. Metalogix (news, site) has done a good line on this over the years, and today has announced the release of Archive Manager 5.0 that focuses on Exchange, SharePoint and files.

The next time you bemoan email, think about how you’re sharing information.  The New York Times Customer Insight and Advertising Groups, in an attempt to help marketers better understand how its readers share information found that, despite a plethora of social sharing tools, email is still the most popular sharing tool.

There's a new survey out today from Jive Software that examines the state of the social business market. The biggest takeaway from the results? Executives understand the importance of social in business today, but the average knowledge worker still hasn't completely bought in.

Here’s a simple yet powerful trick for driving social computing technology adoption: kill your internal email for everybody in your organization.