Weird feelings
I was sending out the weekly Atheist Society mail-out today and arrived at the bottom of the message to sign my name. Traditionally this would be signed Chris, Society president. But I didn’t. Because...
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I’ve finally got round to adding email notifications to further comments being posted on my blog entries. So if you comment on one of the entries you can now opt to be notified by email if someone...
View ArticleBanning internal emails
Last year, ATOS boss Thierry Breton announced he was planning to bring internal emails to an end at the company. It’s a brilliant idea. As his research shows, most of the internal emails we get at work...
View ArticleU never know what’s around the corner
Upon checking my emails recently I found an email with the following content in. It was not addressed to me, nor did the email it was sent from match that of the email in the body. But nobody would lie...
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Mailgun
Mailgun is an email sending service made by Rackspace. Specifically, it is designed to be used as an API for sending automated emails. This is different from a mailing list manager such as MailChimp...
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Work email rules
Want to free up a couple of minutes of productive time in the office? My friend John taught me this email rule, and it is worth implementing… Anyone who puts two exclamation marks in the subject line...
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BriteVerify
Email is a word of trouble these days. Most of it spam. So everyone, ISPs and users alike, put up huge defences against the spam. These are typically so aggressive that a huge amount of legitimate...
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GetResponse review
I use MailChimp for a lot of my projects. However, while it is awesome for most things, it does lack in automation. There are workflows, but they are pretty straight forward and linear affairs with no...
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How reliable is MailChimp tracking?
When you send an email newsletter with a provider such as MailChimp, Aweber, etc, they give you a report on who opens your emails. But how accurate are these numbers? I had the opportunity to test...
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