Outlook 2007

Xobni is a new plugin for Outlook 2007 users and it kicks your email capabilities ass. That's right Brandon, even GMail.

Xobni's functionality includes:
Email search. Way faster than the current Outlook07 search. When I started typing in the first two or three letters in Xobni it immediately began pulling up emails with those letters used. It has been a time saver because Outlook takes forever to search through 2 years of emails. With Xobni, it's pulling them up in seconds.

Email Analytics. Fancy little graph showing you the frequency of email usage between you and your contact. Below the graph, it shows you the number of messages sent in and out and the contacts rank based on that number.

Click-to Functions. Click on their phone number, click to schedule time with person (creates a default email and pulls your availability from your calendar!), or click to email this person.

Linkedin. If your contact has a Linkedin profile, their information (Company & Title) is shown above the network. Click on the Linkedin logo and your browser will open and take you to that person's profile.

At LevelTen, Project Coordinators wear a multitude of hats. The role is never exclusively defined because it bleeds into several areas. Because it is a mixture of so many aspects of the web business, it is important to follow best practices to make things a little less hectic. Whether discussing deadlines with clients or typing meeting notes, there are several items Project Coordinators should keep in mind when doing their job.

Being in charge of the LevelTen In-site Newsletter, I have been frustrated with the lack of consistency of the rendering of our newsletter in different email clients. Outlook 2007 strips away any CSS padding, margin, and float styles, which results in mashed-up text and inconsistent spacing. Gmail has even received bad marks on its rendering. Each email client offers different support for what features it will allow in emails.

Here at LevelTen Design, we have a monthly newsletter that we send out, but we have had trouble with it going to spam folders. Even though the LevelTen In-Site Newsletter passed all the spam filter tests for three different spam checkers, it is still getting dropped in Gmail and Outlook 2007 spam folders.