Natan Edelsburg, Senior VP at Sawhorse Media, Shorty Awards Producer, and writer at Lost Remote (*gulp* all by age 25) talks AOL screen names, youthful mistakes, and how Boomerang saves him from missed email. “My first tech memory is signing up for an AOL account in 1995, so I was eight. My mother was always very tech savvy and I vividly remember her pulling me over and saying, “We’re getting AOL so we need to come up with your...
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Happy August! We are promoting Read Receipts from a beta feature to a fully-supported feature in Boomerang for Gmail today. Thank you for trying the feature out, for sending feedback, and for helping us make them work better! We are very happy that that you have found them useful over the past few months. Our data shows that including a read receipt significantly boosts your chances of getting a response. So using read receipts over...
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Baydin intern and Cal Poly CS senior Kelly Daniels talks open source technology, online shopping addictions, and how Boomerang saves her from her own laziness. “It started when I was a kid. My dad’s profession isn’t technology but it was a really huge hobby for him, so he took programming classes back in college back when he programmed on punch cards. My first memory of having a computer was when I was about seven. It was before...
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Back in the day, my inbox consistently contained over a thousand messages. Not because I’m popular or important, but because my method of checking email didn’t extend past the basic definition of “checking”: to look over; examine. I’d open my inbox, scan to make sure there weren’t any crucial messages, and continue looking at Instagrammed entrées. Then I watched Merlin Mann’s classic “Inbox Zero” Google Tech Talk where he states,...
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When I think of a “customer-service-worst-case-scenario,” I think of Marie Antoinette. Legend has it that she was so out of tune with her constituents that when she heard the peasants had no bread and were starving to death, replied, “let them eat cake” (yes, this was misattributed, but go with it)… and eventually lost her head. Granted, she didn’t have the benefits of social media and email like we do, but at Baydin,...
Read MoreEtiquette rules aren’t just about holding the door, using the correct fork, and all the other exciting things we learned at middle school cotillion; they also extend to email. Proper email etiquette increases productivity because it eliminates the hurt feelings or “drama” that can result when something is misread or taken in the wrong context. Everybody has their pet peeves, so here’s an excuse to voice them:...
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Hi there! You probably landed on this blog post from a search query. Well, it’s a little outdated. We now have all new Scheduling Features included inside of Boomerang! Before working at Baydin, I was a secondary English Language Arts and English as a Second Language teacher in Houston for two years (translation: I taught older kids how to write better and speak English better too). From that experience, I learned that teachers...
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Hi there! You probably landed on this blog post from a search query. Well, it’s a little outdated. We now have all new Scheduling Features included inside of Boomerang! You have two appointments to schedule: a meeting with John, a VIP at your company, and coffee with Rachel. You email John first, proposing Friday at noon plus two additional times. You eat lunch, do a little work, have a cup of coffee, and email Rachel, “Hey,...
Read MoreTwo days before the release of our first mobile app, Boomerang for Android, the Baydin team remembered that we needed to make a demo video. Luckily, two of our interns have a penchant for filmmaking: Brandon was accepted to Tufts (he attends Brown) thanks to an iMovie application video involving 84 digits of pi, and Davis had recently seen Man of Steel. Because we’re a startup, our budget for the film was “low-to-no” so we carefully...
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The story of how a young wizard named Charlotte tamed her Inbox It started a couple of years ago, when my smarty pants CS major little brother originally tipped liberal-arts-major-me off to the existence of Boomerang. It was great to be able to send emails to certain people “early in the morning” so it looked like I was a responsible early riser when in fact I might be sinfully sleeping in… (or of course, for purely...
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