At Xobni, we’ve dedicated ourselves to helping you work smarter, not harder, by developing powerful email products to reduce the time you spend digging around your inbox so you can focus on…well, whatever it is you were actually hired to do (we assume it wasn’t to search unsuccessfully in Outlook ).

In the years we’ve spent in this space, we’ve accumulated quite a bit of knowledge about email and workplace productivity in general, and rather than sit on what we know, we want to share it with you, our valuable users.  To that end, we’re excited to announce our first-ever Live Twitter Q&A, during which we’ll spend a concentrated hour fielding as many of your questions as we can.  We hope you’ll join us for our inaugural Work Smart Wednesday:

Xobni Live Twitter Q&A
Work Smart Wednesday, March 3rd
11:30AM-12:30PM PST

It’s easy to join the conversation: Direct your questions to @xobni and end them with the hashtag #WorkSmarter between 11:30AM and 12:30PM PST this Wednesday.  Questions tweeted using Xobni’s Twitter extension will receive priority, so if you can, post your questions from Xobni.

If you’re not available then, write your question on Twitter or as a comment on this blog post (please tag with #WorkSmarter and keep it <140 characters) ahead of time, and we’ll answer as many of those as time permits during the Q&A as well.

Example:

• BillGates: @xobni I want to impress my coworkers with my taste in Outlook tools–what’s the easiest way to invite them to use Xobni? #WorkSmarter

• Xobni: To @BillGates Open up the Xobni Options menu and click “Invite Users”. Select your invitees there & get a chance to win Xobni Plus for free!

Of course, we’re always listening to you on Twitter (you should take a moment to follow us if you haven’t already), but we’re especially excited to dedicate this entire hour just to answering your top questions.  Get your questions ready, and we’ll see you there!

As frequent readers of this blog know, two weeks ago we began a program where current Xobni users could invite their friends. We have since added a lot of users. Every time we add new users we love reading the deluge of happy comments from our new Xobni friends. Here are a few of our favorites:

Ok, so a few days ago, I finally got an e-mail from you guys to join the public beta of xobni. Well I installed it this morning, I’ve been using it for a few hours and all I have to say is WOW, where have you been all my life! I friggin love this thing (Google eat your heart out).

Geoff Hackett, Systems Analyst

Guys,
I must say that this is the first time in my life I send an immediate applaud. What an amazing application!!! Well done !!! It is the best application I have seen on outlook ever …maybe on my PC.

Rani Cohen, Israel

I just finished installing the beta, and have only been using Xobni for a few minutes now. I’m already sold, and completely blown away. This product is amazing! I find myself already wondering how I’ve survived without it all this time.
Bravo!
Jack

Every day our support guy, Skyler, sends out an email to our team with his favorite feedback or support quote of the day. He takes these quotes right out support and feedback emails. They are always motivating and often very funny. Here are some more examples:

Gentlemen,

I have to say that so far, I’m really, really impressed with Xobni. It’s clear you’ve put some real thought into it and the interactions are really well-designed. It’s about time someone made Outlook work properly; I’ve always thought that it’s a total dog of a program, which I use only under duress and in consistent ill-humour, so thanks for bringing some kind of functionality to it. Just being able to search email improves the usefulness by about 1000%. I have been evangelizing about Xobni all day – just wish I had more than 5 invites.

Thanks again,

Ian

Good Evening,

I finally received my Beta invite yesterday, after impatiently waiting for over a month.

I installed it today, and was blown away. My productivity went up at least 40-50% within the first hour of using it. I really think that you guys are underselling the way that Xobni groups similar message threads together. Another ‘killer’ feature that I didn’t see mentioned on the website – the prompt to follow up certain people based on follow up flags & dates I have set. Previously I used to set these flags, but native Outlook does not re-prompt you very well further on down the track.

With Xobni, within the first few minutes of using, I was aware of how many client emails I had to follow up on which will lead to real billable work tomorrow. The software has paid for itself already…oh wait, it didn’t cost me anything! ?
Well done guys (and gals). This is class software.

Cheers,
Devan Sabaratnam
Managing Director, Blaze Business Software Pty. Ltd.