Here is a guest post by Lauren Bailey – please share your comments about it below: There will occasionally come a time in your illustrious career in which you will … Continue reading Co-Worker Not Getting the Message? How to Send an Assertive Email: Guest post by Lauren Bailey
Let’s remember the two minute rule. Take the number of items you have in your inbox and multiply that number by 2. That’s the maximum number of minutes this project … Continue reading Ask Marsha: How do I start, moving ALL of those emails out of my inbox?
No matter how many smiley faces… Email Can’t Replace F2F Stop trying to put a square peg into a round hole! Smiley faces CAN’T replace your smiling face! Before you … Continue reading Email Management and Best Practices: Smiley Faces vs YOUR Smiling Face…
What might you do that can hurt your career prospects at work? This MSN distributed article by Meghan Casserly gives you some great “don’ts!” What about ccing the boss? Calling … Continue reading EMail Habits that Could Cost You at Work – MSN/Forbes article
Way to go Meghan Casserly – alot of great tips on how to NOT email on the job. Here’s the link. And for a quick excerpt, “People do or say … Continue reading Quoted in Forbes! “Ten Emails That Could Cost You Your Job”
NO. NO. NO. That’s extra work. That will create another email to handle. If you want or need to save an item that you sent, go into your sent mail, … Continue reading Ask Marsha: Should I send a blind copy of an email to myself, so that I have a record of it?
Are you an email flipper? Waaaaaa? Wadyamean, flipper? An email flipper is a person who can’t bear just let an email “rest.” In other words, you receive an email, … Continue reading Email Etiquette: Are You an “Email Flipper?”
A colleague suggested I try Gmail’s Canned Responses tool, and while I was slightly sceptical at first, I’m now finding it a great time saver. The premise is very simple. … Continue reading Saving time with the Google Labs Canned Response tool – Guest Post by Jess Spate
Hello!!! Just thought I’d share a great New York Times article on the use of exclamation points in email. Definitely overused, yet too many people still overuse them. I love … Continue reading Email Etiquette and the Use of Exclamation Points – NYT Article
This guest post by Robert Bellarmine shows how he used Gmail labels to be more organized with his project. He talks about guest blogging, but you can use this approach … Continue reading Email Efficiency:Use Gmail labels – Guest Post by Rob Bellarmine
This is another one that could be tough to give you rules to follow. Sometimes the received email is enough for you to save. Sometimes you may need to keep … Continue reading Ask Marsha: Should I file away the received email or my sent email?
