Tag Archives: email

The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform

I don’t put much stock in sto­ries that say e-mail is dead for pre­cisely this reason.

January 5, 2012 – 1:55 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Campaign Monitor – Successfully building brand awareness with email marketing

Email mar­ket­ing defi­antly works to get me inter­ested in pur­chas­ing a product.

May 1, 2011 – 11:31 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

The Economist – Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada

I despise legal dis­claimers in email with a pas­sion for the shear use­less of them and waste of time and energy required in even see­ing them.

April 15, 2011 – 1:07 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

The Invisible – How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail

Do you even need to know that this was done by Apple to know only Apple cares that much to work on this?

January 24, 2011 – 9:50 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

52 Weeks of UX – Email, the Glue of UX

For all the hype other com­mu­ni­ca­tion medi­ums get today, email is still the bul­wark of online communication.

July 7, 2010 – 10:49 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Ruling Backs Palin’s Use of Private E-Mail for State Work – NYTimes.com

Alaskan judge declares that state law does not require state busi­ness be con­ducted through offi­cial state email accounts.

January 24, 2010 – 9:44 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual

Specif­i­cally, this is another time in which I call out Repub­li­cans for their lack of atten­tion to basic logic and under­stand­ing of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regard­ing Obama, Con­gress and the orga­ni­za­tion ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion has plans to …

April 9, 2009 – 2:19 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)