One of the great things about a quality hosted exchange environment is that it can be used to accomplish so many of the everyday tasks that face us at the office.
No doubt many of you are on Twitter and, if your company is smart, your business is on Twitter as well. If you're not on the Twitter then you may want to check out our spinoff company Magnetic SEO but that's a topic for another day.
But how do you incorporate your workflow into Twitter? The Website version is a little clunky and many of the Twitter clients run off Adobe Air and aren't quite ready for business use.
Enter TwInbox. The software runs right in your Outlook box and looks just like a normal Outlook message. The solution isn't obtrusive and it doesn't get in the way of your every day work. In fact, with this software you may actual find more use and business leads from the powerful social media site.
Oh by the way: It's free.
Some features:
Check out the features:
- Update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
- Receive your friend updates in Outlook.
- Archive, manage, group and search your tweets the
same way you manage your email. - Search, track keywords. TwInbox will automatically download ALL tweets matching the keywords you specify, even if you are not following the tweet sender. This feature is perfect for keeping up to date with the Twitter buzz on your name, brand, interests, etc.
- Group tweets by sender, topic, etc using the Search feature.
- Upload and post picture files and Outlook email attachments.
- See new tweets at a glance.
- Assign custom folder and categories to new messages.
- Use Outlook's "Reply" and "ReplyAll" commands to send twitter direct messages and @replies.
- Automatically sort new tweets into per-sender folders.
- Shorten URLs
- See graphs of your Twitter usage statistics.
- Tweets sent to you (@replies and direct) are marked with high importance, so you can see them at a glance.
