TAROBY: Official News & Blog

We are working relentlessly to add new features to make Taroby an even better experience for you. We are Closing Taroby Public Beta sign ups temporarily from July 22, 2010. Here are a few changes you’ll find in the Newly Released version of Taroby:

• Significantly faster in both speed and responsiveness.
• Simplified and better organized menu elements and tool bar.
• Moved the position of the folder tree permanently to the left side.
• Detailed information section per message on the right side in order to know more about the contact, to view recent conversations, and to get the files sent in the previous mails.
• Moved the buttons on bottom to top for easy access of functionalities like download new mails, assign, comment, reply, forward, print, and history. A ‘More’ button calls the entire context menu directly.
• Search functionality is now available from all tabs.
• Filter layer is now near to the search box. Some common filters like ‘All’, ‘New’ and ‘Mine’ are there on the left side.
• Ability to close the Messages tab. To open it go to ‘View’ menu on top and click on the menu item ‘Messages’ in the ‘Module tabs’ menu.
• The count of messages is now available at the bottom.

We thank you for all the overwhelming support and the feedback you’ve given us over the past 2 years. We hope to receive such support in the future as well, in making Taroby a better application for all.

Keen friends of the Taroby Collaborative E-Mail Suite have been approaching us with the idea to make an iPhone App based on our upcoming API. The work is already full under way as you can see from the following screenshots.

This would possible make Taroby the first email client with real mobile collaboration features (assigning, commenting and so on).

Will be posting more on this soon! Keep your ideas coming and thanks to all Taroby fans who keep pushing hard for the iPhone App.

Taroby was exhibited at the Business Technology Summit, held @ IISc Bangalore. Our Director Mr Tobias Rueckert also gave a session to the audience about “The strategies to Counter the Information Overload Conundrum”.

Abstract of the speech:

As the world moves into a new internet era with collaborative web 2.0 tools, social networks and the semantic web, an excess amount of information is being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks very difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the information. Through the amount of information being produced from various people on the Internet, the problem of Information Overload arises. The implication arises from the psychological field, society and individual.
E-mail remains a major source of information overload, as people struggle to keep up with the rate of incoming messages as well as filtering out unsolicited commercial messages (spam), users also have to contend with the growing use of e-mail attachments in the form of lengthy reports, presentations and media files. Come to this session to learn about possible solutions and strategies to counter the information overload conundrum.

AMT Director and Founder Mr Aby Varghese spoke to DNA,  Bangalore – a prominent English Newspaper. In the interview, Aby elaborates on the advantage Taroby can bring into team productivity.

You can read the entire interview by clicking here.

Sep 10 2009: DNA Newspaper Interview Aby Varghese Taroby

Don’t miss the following video about Information Overload Syndrome (IOS):

Use Taroby’s Information Overload Strategies instead to manage your complete Communication and Messaging needs.

Visit Taroby for more details.

1. At the beginning of each week, try to have an inbox without a „scroll bar“. It helps a lot to plan your week and have a real overview over all matters related to email.
2. Do email in the afternoon, not in the morning. Except for the dispatching of works and urgent things that need attention because team members are waiting for, that do in the morning. Otherwise think of mornings as your most productive hours, so don’t use them for email alone!
3. If you use folders, it pays to check which folders you really need and which not. A folder with three messages in it is probably not worth the administration! A yearly analysis is fine and saves time for searching and filing throughout the year.
4. Put out of sight what you don’t need to see within the next 4 weeks – or even months. It just hinders you to work effectively. But make sure you create a followup if you want to be remembered or find it eventually.
5. Use email as email, don’t treat it like a phone! If you want an immediate reply or need a real conversation, call – or use an instant messaging facility. Otherwise you end up with a number of „micro-emails“ that all just need your attention eventually in terms of moving or putting them out of sight.
6. Don’t let email “get to you”. If you have followed idea number 1, you most likely can let your inbox grow over the week and do only those things which are really important. Use labels, tags or flags to mark them appropriately and be disciplined in answering those only. Leave the rest for the end of the week cleanup!
7. Change company related mail from individual mail into a team environment. Stop using personal email addresses such as alex@stressinternational.com (with exceptions) and replace them with generic email accounts (info@, sales@, support@ and so on) and share those with the members of the team.
8. Newsletters, RSS Feeds, Twitter Followers and so on which you don’t read anyway, unsubscribe!
9. Don’t permit yourself emails in your inbox which have „passed“ the expiry date of 12 months. Chances are that if a mail is older than one year, you have just avoided making the necessary decisions what to do about the matter. So simply „decide“.
10. Finally guide your staff on how to use email effectively, if they can’t cope with it, you also suffer. But be practical: would you listen to anybody who has not mastered the subject himself?

Copyright by Toby Ruckert, certified Taroby Consultant.

The following numbers are based on the results from various reknown research institutes and analysts and quite interesting to read.

• 80: The percentage of emails sent which are actually ’spam’ – unsolicited adverts, many of which are fraudulent or otherwise illegal.
• 62: The percentage of workers who check business emails while at home or on holiday.
• 10: The points fall in IQ experienced by workers distracted by email (more than twice that found in cannabis studies).
• 3.5: The years a manager spends of his entire life attending to completely unecessary email.
• 33: The annual energy consumption produced by spam (in billion kilowatt hours).
• 0.3: The average CO2 emission for a spam email (in grams).
• 868: The Internet’s globally estimated carbon footprint (in billion kilowatt hours).

As of April 2009.

Taroby cordially invites you to the Bizzone Auckland Business Expo

Every year, the expo brings together an extensive range of products, services and seminars customized for small to medium business owners and managers. This is the perfect opportunity to discover how to improve business efficiency, lower costs, seek information on growing your business and do some essential networking. Last year’s expo was amazing and this year will without a doubt be just as good, if not better. If you get a chance come visit the Taroby team at our stall 148 C for a chat. The expo will be at the ASB showground’s in Auckland Greenlane on:

Wednesday   27 May 9am-4pm
Thursday       28 May 9am-8pm
Friday           29 May 9am-4pm

You can get your free Expo ticket courtesy of TAROBY by registering at the link below:

www.bizzone.com/guestof/taroby

You will then have access to all of the seminars and the exhibit hall absolutely FREE !

Don’t miss this leading B2B event of the year: everybody who attends the Bizzone Business Expos goes in the draw to win the Smart Marketing Prize worth $100,000

Hope to see you there!

You can now use taroby as a desktop application provided you have installed Firefox Prism.

After installing Prism plugin in your Firefox browser click here to add Taroby as a desktop application.

You can now configure short cuts for Taroby in desktop or start menu or in the quicklaunch menu.

Taroby has been nominated as one of the 15 companies that have made it through the shortlisting process and will be presenting at the prestigious Proto.in Jan ‘09 on the dates of January 23, 24 in the Nimhans Convention Centre in Bangalore.

About Proto.in

Proto.in celebrates entrepreneurship, by encouraging and showcasing it where it matters the most – at the startup level. It provides a platform for startups from within and around the Indian subcontinent to participate, share, discuss and draw strength from the growing entrepreneurial community, in an effort to create world-class products and product leaders from the region.