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Category: Office Technology

Making key inbox messages stand out

Laura answers at least 25 calls a day on behalf of her boss. He has asked her to e-mail the messages to him, rather than write them on paper. “But he gets hundreds of e-mails a day, and he complains that his phone messages get lost in the shuffle,” she says. “How can I resolve this and make it simple for him and me?”

Travel toolbox: 7 sites to bookmark

Here are seven sites that every globe-trotter (or her assistant) should bookmark, according to Travel + Leisure: HopStop.com, OANDA.com, TheBathroomDiaries.com, Travel.State.Gov, Travelersnet.com, Urbanrail.net and World-airport-codes.com.

Keep your inbox running on empty

Here’s an easy trick for keeping an inbox from filling up: Read e-mail in batches. Rather than scanning your inbox for urgent messages, plucking out a few and leaving the rest until later, follow these tips:

Cracking the password code

Can you guess what the most common online password is? Actually, you probably could guess. Internet-security firm Imperva recently reported that 123456 is the most common password. Second-most common is 12345, followed by 123456789. And the fourth most common password is “password.”

Transform an e-mail list into a gold mine

Are you more experienced than your boss with social-media sites? You can use those sites to help build your business’s e-mail marketing list, says Julie Waite, an e-mail marketing strategist at Bronto Software. A bigger marketing list equals more potential business, which is probably one of your boss’s top goals. Here’s what she recommends:

Where does all the time go?

According to a 2007 survey from Salary.com, Americans waste about 20% of their time at work. And a chunk of that wasted time comes from surfing the Internet. One journalist writer, in a quest to find out where her time was going, tried out four online services that track productivity. Here’s what she learned from that experience.