Posts tagged as "email" - Chris Hardie

The new calendar year is a great time to think about how you manage your personal and work/organizational email accounts.  I know that I benefit from the opportunity to purge or rotate out some old folders, delete large attachments just sitting around taking up space, and think about how well my setup is working for me in my daily workflow. There are a lot of different strategies out there and each person has to find what works best for them.  Here are a few queries that might help you think...

The Times has a nice little article today about why Barack Obama will probably have to give up the use of his Blackberry - and e-mail altogether - when he becomes President: As his team prepares a final judgment on whether he can keep using e-mail, perhaps even in a read-only fashion, several authorities in presidential communication said they believed it was highly unlikely that he would be able to do so. Diana Owen, who leads the American Studies program at Georgetown University, said presidents...

Writing good subject lines in your email messages is important. As email continues to serve as a primary communication tool for many people, and as our inboxes are filled up with ridiculous amounts of stuff that we may or may not need to actually act on, we will all benefit from writing good subject lines that save time and improve productivity. My suggested tips for success: Don't leave the subject line blank. When you send someone an email with a blank subject line, they are lost. They...

Life's too short. E-mail messages I tend to delete without reading (other than obvious spam): Messages with a blank subject line Messages with a blank body, with only a mysterious attachment that's supposed to explain everything when I open it Pretty much anything from Network Solutions / Verisign Anything that asks me to forward it to 11 of my friends for good luck Messages that start out by declaring that "this is not spam" Messages with more than three (3) consecutively-placed exclamation...