Introducing Bookable Schedule. With the advent of working from home and hybrid remote/office working, the need to be efficient with our time has gotten more pronounced, not less. Whether it’s in-person, a Zoom call, or a virtual meeting across time zones, the number of meetings we need to attend has increased dramatically. While not every meeting could be a single email, it shouldn’t take more than a single email to schedule...
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I’m excited to announce that we have chosen a proposal for Boomerang’s 2021 climate donation. But before I do that, I’d like to back up and talk about how a productivity company ended up doing something like this on an ongoing basis. When we started Boomerang, we committed to donating 5% of our profits (if we ever generated any, which was far from guaranteed in 2010!) to support education in Burma, where I grew...
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At Boomerang, we’re fortunate enough to be able to donate a portion of our profits to different causes every year. For example, we’ve helped build several schools in Burma and funded a mobile school classroom and a couple academic labs working on carbon capture technologies. We are continuing the tradition of giving back this year and we’d like your help in finding our next recipient. One of the critical components of helping to...
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Today’s mobile world is now integrating on-the-go communication into everyday life. 75% of consumers say they use their smartphone most often to check emails. And yes, we’ve seen technology trends come and go, but smartphones and email are not a fad. Mobile email opens have grown by 180% over the last three years and roughly 269 billion emails were sent and received each day last year. With even more emails to triage every day and no...
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We are excited to announce that Boomerang for Outlook has graduated from Beta! For existing users, the add-in should update automatically, and you’ll notice some new features (see details below). For new users on Office 365 or Outlook.com, you can install Boomerang for Outlook here. Get Boomerang for Outlook Now that our beta period has ended, Boomerang is incorporating new pricing plans. To continue using the full feature-set...
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If you look around the Boomerang office, you might see any of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Edge on our screens. Like fine wines or cheeses, people have strong, personal preferences for certain web browsers. Google-philes love the ease of Chrome syncing with their accounts, open-source and privacy enthusiasts back Firefox, and Opera users are quick to point out that they had tabbed browsing first. Windows users take pride in...
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