If you could analyse all your email, or all your organisation’s email, in any way, what would you do with it? Leave a comment with your answers.

Email Analytics For You

• Build a stats dashboard with total number of emails sent, sent per day, top recipients, etc, and start a competition to see who sends the most (or least!)
• Calculate what time you’re most likely to get a response from a particular person
• Extract all the links you’ve sent and make a Twitter feed
• Extract all the links you’ve sent or received to a particular person and show them in a sidebar when composing (a bit like Rapportive)
• Build a cool visualisation of your email social network, like InMaps

Email Analytics For Your Organisation

• Trending topics
• Integrate with a CRM, e.g. automatically populate contacts, history
• Pull attachments and share them on Dropbox/GDocs/file server/etc (similar to attachments.me)
• Extract stealth documentation (questions and answers) and add it to a wiki
• Archive conversations applying custom rules (filter out mailing lists, large attachments)
• Detect specific content, e.g. porn, law-breaking, bullying

Email Analytics For The World

By analysing the all the email in the world (or a sufficiently large volume thereof), you could apply the kind of social analytics that Twitter, Facebook, Bitly, PeerIndex, etc, provide.

• Trending topics
• Influence (“Ben knows about startups”)
• Contact segmentation

The list goes on. What would you do?