Tag: email

  • UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/1… ‘The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”. The bot didn’t do so well on anything more complicated.’

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  • THE RIGHT PEOPLE – Driving subscribers: “Write a post that will resonate with the person you’re emailing. Yes, even if it’s just that one person. Email the person the link. Maybe they subscribe, or at least reply and you two catch up, and who knows where that leads?”

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  • What the Government Email Account Hack Says About the Future of Cybersecurity – Always be securing all the things.

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  • Re-commit to our relationship

    Well, not that dramatic… If you enjoy this newsletter, you know I struggle to keep up with it. It’s annoying for me, and perhaps for you. So, I’ll try something new, being less perfect. You can subscribe to get notifications of posts I make to my blog, the more fragmentary version of this newsletter. I…

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  • 🗂 Link: A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

    Published in the Computers in Human Behaviour academic journal, the study enumerates no fewer than 72 actions that people apparently take while managing their work emails. We can count five – delete, mark as spam, forward, reply and read but ignore – and can only imagine that reaching the figure of 72 must include crying…

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  • Link: Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email

    With AMP for Email, those messages become interactive. That means you’ll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store’s inventory or respond to a comment — all without leaving your web-based email client. Some of the companies that already support this new format are…

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  • 🗂 ‘Inbox infinity’: is ignoring all your emails the secret to a happy 2019?

    > Rather than trying to deal with every single email, let them pile up, and allow the digital tide to wash over you. Accept that the number of messages in your inbox will always be infinite because the time you have to deal with them will always be finite. To use the term of Make…

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  • 🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud

    > Quite a few departments have entirely moved their email to the cloud: Transportation, [HUD], Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the [GSA], Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and U.S. Agency for International Development. www.fedscoop.com/two-third…

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  • Link: Working remotely, 4 years in

    Yup, this is the thing: “I think this is actually a really important point to understand about remote work – on the remote teams I’ve been on, the the whole team has adopted a working style where all important team communication happens over Slack / video calls / email. IMO if your team is mostly…

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    Coté Memo #079: No Comment, Slack Behavior

    Tech & Work World No Comment Big news for the company I work in this week. Sadly for my desires to write about and link to interesting stories on it, I have to take a pass. It’s bad form for employees to comment on any of this stuff; and since I worked at Dell on…

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  • Rebecca Greenfield, writing for Fast Company, traces the return of the internet newsletter to the death of Google Reader. A representative from TinyLetter told her that there was an uptick in users just as Google pulled the plug last year. Some of us switched to other RSS readers, nevertheless a number of bloggers saw their…

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  • Lessons from Inbox Zero

    Also, I’ve had to accept that some emails/actions require a laptop. I’d love to keep my inbox clean from my mobile devices, but they are sometimes only sufficient for triage. Lessons from Inbox Zero

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  • Email Moving to Cloud Estimates

    Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts

    A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The up-shot was that right now, it’s just about 8% for all types of companies, globally (except India and China for some reason). Someone from SpiceWorks left a comment that arecent survey of theirs indicated something much different, at least…

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  • People stuck in the email backwoods

    Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. …adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just…

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