7 Tips for Effective Email Communication
Posted in Communication Tuesday
There is something about e-mail that fosters poor communication habits. Users see it as a form of instant communication and therefore, doesn’t require the same care and attention that a letter might.
For many organizations, e-mail has become the preferred means of communication, both formal and informal. Here are some tips to make your [...]
Attachment feature in Gmail
I stumbled across an feature in Gmail. I replied to an e-mail stating that I was unable to open the attachment I had been sent. When I hit send, Gmail popped up a confirmation dialogue.
If the word “attachment” appears in the body of an e-mail message, and there is no file attached, a dialogue box pops [...]
A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email
I’ve seen this posted a couple of places today.
The Problem
E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous in box overflow for those who receive a lot of it.
The Solution
Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we [...]
Tips for leaving a good out-of-office message
I’ve had some fun with out-of-office messages for e-mail. However, a well-prepared message can go a long way to maintaining productivity while you’re away from the office.
A good out of office message has three parts:
Dates of your absence. Let the contact know when you are out of the office. It helps them decide what their [...]
Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog
For those of you who use Outlook as your productivity software/groupware, there’s now a team blog where you can find out what’s going on with Outlook.
We want to make it easier for everyone to find information, directly from the source, about the way Outlook works and how to get the most out of our [...]
4 Tips for Basic E-mail Management
Is your email killing your productivity? Then it’s time for some basic email management. With a few simple steps, you can maintain control over your inbox:
Use the software: Set up your email cl…
Bits and Pieces - April 13
Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This Week – Plan for and do the big items first and let the smaller items fall in around.
Clearing Your Inbox with Minimal Pain – An 8–step blueprint for an empty inbox. It works well. I cleared out my inbox in an hour or so on Tuesday.
David Byrne on [...]
How to Use Gmail as a Business Diary and More Tips
Last month I pointed to a couple of Steve Rubel posts about using Gmail as a personal nerve centre. Steve has posted a follow-up to those tips called, “How to Use Gmail as a Business Diary and More Tips.”
In this new post he looks at four tips:
How to turn Gmail into a business diary (Gmail + [...]
Using Gmail as Your On-line Brain
Steve Rubel posted a couple of pieces this week on using Gmail features —coupled with other services— as a personal nerve centre. As a couple of these tips provided solutions to things I have been toying with, I quickly set them up. (Quickly not only refers to my response time, but that most of these [...]
Bits and Pieces - February 23
10 Tips for Organizing Your E-mail – Web Worker Daily some ideas for moving your e-mail archive from a disaster zone to a useful resource.
Evolution of my e-mail setup – an overview of how this e-mail system went from chaos to lean and mean.
Begin, again – I pointed at this a couple of years ago, but [...]
