Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers an Outlook add-on designed to improve your email productivity (see article below), a new duplex color document scanner, a legal research tool, and an add-on for Microsoft OneNote. Don't miss the next issue.
RECAPTURE PRODUCTIVITY LOST TO EMAIL
Countless "email killers" have come and gone. Persuading billions of people to replace an easy-to-use communications medium is challenging to say the least. Instead, entrepreneurs should focus on making email more productive. That's the approach taken by a new product designed for lawyers who use Microsoft Outlook.
RepriseMail … in One Sentence
Launched last month, Reprise Apps' RepriseMail is an Outlook add-on and accompanying service that analyzes how you use email to identify productivity problems, and suggests how you can solve these problems.
The Killer Feature
RepriseMail analyzes your email usage to formulate a Weekly Report highlighting five Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). For example, the Productivity Killers KPI lists the number of messages opened within two minutes of their arrival, the number of messages replied to within five minutes of arrival, and the number of messages left in your inbox each day.
The other KPIs consist of Email Traffic (the number of messages sent and received), Time Spent (the time spent reading and writing messages), Same-Day Responses (how often you reply the same day), and Inbox Checks (how often you interrupt your work to check email).
Other Notable Features
This "diagnosis" of your email problems enables you to "treat" them. For each KPI, you'll find a link to the RepriseMail Dashboard with advice on how to address a particular problem. The Dashboard also provides deeper analytics. The RepriseMail Dashboard makes email productivity more enjoyable with game elements such as the ability to see how your metrics compare to those of your colleagues in the aggregate or against your prior week's results.
If you're a managing partner or in another leadership role, you can see the KPIs for everyone in your firm to identify major problems and those most afflicted. Trend reports enable firm leaders to identify star performers, as well as those who have improved and those who haven't. Leaders can tap their stars to teach colleagues email productivity best practices.
"Lost time in email is the number one productivity killer in the legal industry today," lawyer and co-founder of Reprise Apps Paul H. Burton told us. "We developed RepriseMail specifically to help legal professionals recover that lost time. Solving the email overload problem increases law firm profitability as well as lawyer and staff well being."
What Else Should You Know?
RepriseMail works with Outlook 2007 and later (Windows). RepriseMail costs $5 per user per month. If you have more than 100 users, the price drops to $4 per user per month. You can try RepriseMail for free for 30 days. Learn more about RepriseMail.
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