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NutshellMail Brings Twitter and Facebook Right to Your Email Box

Although some are saying that the email age is coming to an end, the data shows the opposite is true - it increases our reliance on mail. With Gmail adding new features all the time and services like Posterous, Twitgether, Evernote, Remail and others working seamlessly with my Gmail account, I am always on the hunt for services that make email even more useful. Enter NutshellMail, which I read about on Web Worker Daily

NutshellMail is a really slick service that brings Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace updates right to your email box. Once you authorize the service to connect it will scan your accounts and deliver updates as often as hourly. I have set up my account to poll every few hours and scoop up news. I have set up a filter in Gmail so that these get shuttled to a special label, which I can review on any device and even respond back all via email as well.

Give it a go. It's a great service for tracking your social networks.


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11 comments
Nov 26, 2009
ffcode said...
great trying it now another google reader with lesser load times and instant content :) unlike RSS that take its time to reach our inboxes
Nov 26, 2009
Denis said...
Finally! I was looking for something like this... it makes more sense for my blackberry
Nov 26, 2009
krames said...
Any concerns with an invalid certificate for facebook connect?
Nov 26, 2009
Steve Rubel said...
Hmm. Should there be? Works for me. 

Nov 26, 2009
krames said...
Firefox wrung its hands about an invalid certificate for the Facebook Connect linkage. It's done it before, for Brizzly, so because both you and Louis Gray are reasonably trustable, I went ahead and allowed the exception.

Well worth it - this is a fantastic service. Despite the fact that I've only played with it for less than three hours, I can foresee greater effectiveness from the different networks with the regular, one-stop-shop updates. The best part is the topic filtering out of Facebook - exactly what I care about, nothing more.

So, short story long, thanks for the tip and recommendation.

Nov 27, 2009
Laurence said...
Hi Steve, as you are "always on the hunt for services that make email even more useful", you should try out Silentale. Silentale consolidates all your contacts and messages from email, social networks, twitter, in one single and searchable archive located in the Cloud. Whilst NutshellMail is perfect to get a "instant" digest of your social activity, Silentale makes your past conversations easily searchable, wherever and whenever they happened. If you're interested in checking out our private beta, just DM us @silentale and we'll send you one or more invites
Nov 27, 2009
Glenn Hilton said...
I've been using it for 6 months or so now and love it. I have five Twitter accounts that I track on it and the main thing I find helpful is it shows you who's followed & unfollowed you. I've got it set to hourly delivery but stop the delivery at 11 PM and start it again at 6:00 AM, but you can set it to whatever you'd like.
Nov 27, 2009
Denis said...
If only the emails show better on blackberry...
Nov 27, 2009
Larry Etchison said...
the best services and program for me,I like it.
Dec 04, 2009
Susan Gosselin said...
Steve: Thanks for this post. I'll be looking into these services. Matter of fact, I've been on a campaign to understand as many of the new tools as possible. I'm generally finding what I need. But I am stumped about this one thing...

I'm going to be communications chair for my IABC chapter next year. The chapter's communications really need some work. We have a linked in group that no one really uses and only half the members have signed up for, and aside from member emails and postcards (which usually arrive late), that's pretty much it.

I'd like to amp things up a notch but I'm struggling with finding the right tool to do it. Ideally, I'd love to create a group reading room, like a Google Reader, that would synthesize all the best RSS feeds coming in on communications and social media issues and make them available for our readers, both members and non. Our Linked In group I suppose would do for microblogging and general member communications. A group IABC Twitter or Yammer of course can be good too. I would love to be able to funnel all those things into one site with portals to each of these multiple applications sharing one page. Is this even possible? I may be able to get some programming help to get all these things strung together at my agency. But am I biting off more than I can chew?

Jan 28, 2010
ste said...
how the step to activate the nutshellmail

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Steve Rubel (bio) is SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman - the world's largest independent PR firm.

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