Last week’s question of the week from Chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has fetched over 3000 Answers in just over 3 days alone. This is probably a question with one of the most LinkedIn Answers we’ve ever received. So feel free to join the conversation and add your thoughts as well.

The LinkedIn Answers’ question of this week is on productivity (Check out LinkedIn Answers’ Career Development category). Pete Johnson, HP.com’s Chief Architect at Hewlett Packard asks:

Folders, Filters, Rules and Getting Things Done (GTD) were some of the Answers that found repeated mention. In particular, GTD popularized by productivity experts ranging from Lifehacker to 43 Folders finds its avatars on most of today’s email applications. The easiest way for you to get started on GTD  would be to label or tag all your incoming mails with GTD labels of “Next Actions”, Waiting For, Someday, etc… and process it, but let’s hear it from those who posted LinkedIn Answers.

Besides the usual suspects – folders, rules and filters; here are a couple of answers that offer productivity tips from an Outlook perspective:

Ron Bell, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Yahoo! Inc., recommends an email organizer for Outlook and follows that up with productivity tips as well.

Steve Patrizi, Director of Advertising Sales at LinkedIn (you may recall his earlier blog post on the LinkedIn blog) suggests the often under utilized drag-and-drop capabilities in Outlook as well as desktop search.

If you’ve a favorite productivity tip (email or otherwise) not covered by the thread, feel free to leave a comment.