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From time to time, we would also like to turn your attention to interesting technologies that might help you expand your horizons through technology, or make it easier to network with other conservatives.

On that note, there is a nifty program that helps you organize your inbox and contact lists, called Xobni (inbox spelled backwards, www.xobni.com) You can read the NY Times article by Brad Stone here. In a nutshell:

“Xobni … has produced free downloadable software that, once installed, indexes all the e-mail in Outlook and makes those messages quickly and easily searchable.” … “Other programs, like Google Desktop, perform that same basic index-and-search function. But Xobni, which its creators call an “intelligent filter,” adds a few more features. When it scours the inbox, it extracts phone numbers it thinks are associated with the sender. So when a user searches for a person, Xobni presents the number in a side panel to Outlook.”

While just for Outlook now, Xobni promises to support other popular email clients in the future. Conservative bloggers, campaign workers, local activists, and just about anybody that actively uses Outlook can benefit from a tool such as this. Getting things done is always easier when you have multiple levels of contacts, as our lives are ever more influenced by social networking.

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