Hooking Up your Social Media Profiles with Ms Outlook 2013

Since the time social networks like FaceBook and Twitter made

their way into our lives, the way we communicate with our peers, friends and family have experienced a drastic change. Today you are always connected with your friends and business contacts and seem to know whatever is going on with their lives. Social networks in fact can help you reach out to long lost friends and colleagues, start new business relationships and even communicate with your stakeholders. Imagine a scenario if you could integrate your social networks into your email client and thus remain accessible to all your contacts over different channels. Well it is now possible with the Outlook 2013 application which in fact changed its convention of Contacts to People. With Outlook you can seamlessly add you social networks into the People module and see all your friends and activities right out of your email client. Further an email can be delivered to your contacts on social networks and their responses received.   

Adding Social Media Profiles to Outlook

To start adding you Social Media Profiles to Outlook you need to first go to the File tab and then click on Info. Next under the Account Settings, you need to select the Social Media Accounts option. Once the screen opens up you will get option to connect to LinkedIn or FaceBook as per your need. Select the network of your choice and you would be asked to enter your login credentials. Once done, just follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process. You can add nearly any social network to your choice to the Outlook client; however at this moment Outlook has default connectors for FaceBook and LinkedIn only. When a network is added on to Outlook, you can use the People feature to link up the existing contacts with their social media profiles. Once you link up contacts you can observe their emails and social media updates from a single view. Moreover after the accounts have been linked up you can discover images getting added to your Outlook contacts from the social media profiles and even details of their recent activity. 

The Peoples Module can sometimes cause the Outlook to Crash

While the new features in Outlook 2013 certainly open up a whole world of accessibility to you, it seems to have made the application slightly buggy. While working with contacts you may experience an Outlook crash and this where your important data present in the application, can come at risk. To avoid any data loss you should always keep an outlook repair tool installed in your system. Of the several applications that you can consider, the DataNumen Outlook Repair should really be your preferred choice, given it capacity to tackle large PST files and best in the class recovery record. It incidentally is well suited for recovering files that are present on virtual machine drive or have been encompassed in Norton ghost backup image file. Moreover the tool can recover the PST files from any media type including flash drives that are typically used to store exported Outlook files. 

Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/