Our most-requested feature will be released shortly: real-time email updates.

Soon, Shareflow users will get real-time notifications via email when new posts appear.  Replying to an email notification shows up as a comment on Shareflow, and sends an email notification to other flow members.

Now your whole team stays connected on Shareflow whether you choose to use it through email, on the web site, via the desktop widget, or on your mobile device.

Real-time email notifications are delivered in addition to your daily digests. Both types of emails can be turned on or off independently.

If you have not used Shareflow, you might ask “If I am just going to get emails and reply to emails all day long, why use Shareflow at all?”

When you use Shareflow, your communication stays organized and accessible:

1) In your email inbox, new stuff comes in on top and old stuff gets pushed off the bottom, regardless of importance. Shareflow keeps everything organized in separate conversations, called “flows”.  You can use email or the web site to communicate through Shareflow and nobody has to do any extra work to keep things organized. No more setting up complicated rules to file important emails from the team – you see the info you need where you expect it.

Keeping important, long running conversations organized is the best way to keep everyone working well together. Cluttering up your the inbox of your team members is probably the worst.

2) Shareflow works in real-time, giving you the immediacy of instant messaging, but the persistence of email or a web page. You can hold a real-time chat with some team members when they are online with you, and the others will be caught up the next time they check in.

3) Shareflow makes it much easier to share files, even very large files.

4) Shareflow is a better way to get work done on your mobile browser. When I open my mobile email on the road, its filled with lots of stuff on a small screen. Finding what’s important is hard. But when I need updates from my most important contacts – like my development team, investors, etc. – I launch the Shareflow mobile web site and can see what’s going on with one click.

With real-time email notifications, everyone will get my Shareflow response right away, and their replies will be added to the flow.

The Details:

• Since many Shareflow users expected real-time email notifications in the first place, flows default to having this feature enabled.
• All flows will have real-time email notifications turned on.
• To disable these notifications for an individual flow, login to Shareflow, select the cog wheel in the upper right, and unselect “Email me notifications of new Activity” on the settings panel.
• Clicking “unsubscribe now” from the footer of any Shareflow email will disable ALL types of types of Shareflow emails: daily digests and real-time notifications.

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