The original function of email was for a few scientists to send text notes to each other. Now we use it to send multi-megabyte documents and evil robots spew out billions of email advertisements. I’ve seen first-hand, at a number of client sites, how badly overwhelmed the basic structure of email is. It’s so easy…
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Like I Said
This is what I was talking about: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada
Sign Off
I regularly get emails from people whose signature block is more than 20 lines. This is, to say the least, somewhat over the top. (I just cut my longest signature block down to four lines, because I decided that five was too many.) Do you really need that many lines to sign off? (And that’s…
Subject Matter
Email tends to feel like a conversation, which can lead us into bad habits, starting at the very beginning, with the Subject line. If you are emailing a friend, just to talk, a subject like like, “hey” or “hi” is okay. Not great, but acceptable. In a professional environment, though, and when emailing someone who…
Inbox Overload
It is not unusual for people to have five, ten, twelve thousand emails in their Inbox, and even more in their often-forgotten Sent Items folders in MS Outlook. Outlook has many ways of organizing emails when they arrive, sorting them into folders based on who they’re from, or what words are in the Subject, etc.,…