Tag Archives: email ettiquette

Tag Archives: email ettiquette

Declaring Email Bankruptcy

By Howard Yermish | June 27th, 2008
How deep is your email inbox? Seriously, how deep. I’ve been there from time to time, but I’ve been proactively working to keep my inbox as close to empty as possible. If your inbox is over 2000 messages deep, you might need to do something radical. Perhaps you should declare email bankruptcy. Here is how: [...]
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Choose the right messaging medium

By Howard Yermish | June 18th, 2008
Sometimes you just have to take a step back and point out the obvious. Today was one of those times. I was in the middle of typing out a detailed email message that was going to be longer than five sentences when a blinding flash of the obvious hit me: pick up the phone. So [...]
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Tip for forwarding jokes

By Howard Yermish | June 3rd, 2008
If you are someone who likes to forward jokes around, you need to be respectful of everyone’s email addresses. Don’t throw all of those addresses in the TO: or CC: field. Use the BCC: field so that others don’t see the full list of emails. So the next time that you are about to email [...]
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Sending Large Files

By Howard Yermish | March 27th, 2008
Email is a great tool for messages to people but it is horrible for sending attachments. Sure, the PDF, DOC, PPT or XLS file here and there is probably fine, but what do you do when you want to email someone a huge file? And since email is not secure, you shouldn’t use it for [...]
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Writing Email

By Howard Yermish | March 24th, 2008
While talking to a friend yesterday, we were discussing the whole concept of Email ettiquette. So many people use email but so few are taught how to really use it. Of course, this morning, I found this article from Wired Magazine which has some great pointers. And the New York Times has this article which [...]
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