I can sum up my feelings of the Rapportive extension:It is freakin awesome! I installed it on my Mozilla Browser a couple of months back and it has been a huge value add to my emailing program. Basically what it does is allows you to have more social overview of who you are emailing. As you can see in the picture I provided, if I was emailing myself, it brings up all my social profiles and at the bottom when you have had email correspondence already for someone it highlights the most recent interactions.
It is currently limited to a couple of browsers of which Internet Explorer is not included. You also need to have a gmail account as well. So it has its limitations for some but not for me. I am Chrome-Gmail advocate. I love it.
This is how it has changed my emails. It has allowed me to make it more personal. 90% of all the people I correspond with have at the very least a LinkedIn account. So when I start working on an email, the person whom I am emailing pops up on the right hand side. So now I actually have a face to email to. This is a huge game changer to me on how I emails. Emails can come across dry and canned because there is no face to face. This changes that. My friend Xela Wafs allowed me to use him as an example. So when I am emailing Xela I have his picture. When I hover over his Twitter or Facebook account it shows me what he posted last. I can click on recent mail and it opens a new window and I can review all of the emails that we have sent each other.
The other nice thing about it is that you can track those who have several accounts in social media, for example if Xela had two facebook accounts, it reflects and I can be able to track it even if he was hiding one from me.
To me this is a must have Gmail add on for sure.
It is currently limited to a couple of browsers of which Internet Explorer is not included. You also need to have a gmail account as well. So it has its limitations for some but not for me. I am Chrome-Gmail advocate. I love it.
This is how it has changed my emails. It has allowed me to make it more personal. 90% of all the people I correspond with have at the very least a LinkedIn account. So when I start working on an email, the person whom I am emailing pops up on the right hand side. So now I actually have a face to email to. This is a huge game changer to me on how I emails. Emails can come across dry and canned because there is no face to face. This changes that. My friend Xela Wafs allowed me to use him as an example. So when I am emailing Xela I have his picture. When I hover over his Twitter or Facebook account it shows me what he posted last. I can click on recent mail and it opens a new window and I can review all of the emails that we have sent each other.
The other nice thing about it is that you can track those who have several accounts in social media, for example if Xela had two facebook accounts, it reflects and I can be able to track it even if he was hiding one from me.
To me this is a must have Gmail add on for sure.
