Category: General

November 6, 2018

4 Reasons You Can’t Find That Important Email

Have you ever been frustrated because you can’t find an email that you know should be in your email client? And even when you use the search function, you end up with so many search results that you end up having to read through hundreds of emails just to find one you want?

We’ve all been there. And it’s no surprise to find that employees waste up to 12 hours a week trawling their email inboxes. This might sound like a lot but even this is a conservative estimate.

So why are emails so difficult to search?

September 20, 2018

5 Tools to Reduce Time Spent on CRM Data Entry

According to a recent report conducted by HubSpot, 27% of people who work in sales are spending over an hour a day on data entry work instead of selling. This means critical time is lost to administrative work. But there are now a number of tools available that can be used in conjunction with traditional CRM’s to make this job easier. In this post, we look at some of the best tools to reduce CRM data entry.

April 25, 2018

5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs an eDiscovery Tool

Most people believe that electronic discovery (or eDiscovery) tools are just for big law firms and large corporations. In this post we identify 5 reasons why your start up or small business needs one.

December 7, 2016

Dark matter, dark energy and dark communications

John Yardley explains why the majority of business communication is hidden and bizarrely, how sharing it results in a massive reduction in information overload and increase in communication efficiency.

November 22, 2016

Please check your spam folder!

By using Threads, you may discover that a spam filtering service is something you no longer need. Not only do these services cost money, they may also cost your privacy and access to emails you might thought you had lost. Threads will let you cut through spam without throwing away vital information and possible privacy.

November 11, 2016

Threads Email Ingestion – a primer

This document explains a little about the message ingestion mechanisms of Threads – or, more simply, how Threads gets hold of messages.

October 14, 2016

Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and the King’s new clothes?

Artificial Intelligence is an important part of Threads. But what exactly is artificial intelligence? Some things that were considered intelligent 20 years ago and now just number crunching. In his article John Yardley discusses this and how a return to some ideas that had gone out of fashion may see some exciting new developments.