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Posted by Brian McCullough We’re all busy. We all have overflowing in boxes. But lazy e-mail habits could lead to misunderstanding, frustration, non-action, wasted effort, wasted time, damaged relationships and ruined reputations. Are you guilty of any of these lazy habits? If so, it’s time to take action now, before it’s too late. 1. Using […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough A great article this weekend about how to make sure your email gets read. We’re inundated with email these days. A lot of it spam. How can you make sure your email gets read? This is especially important for job seekers. Especially if you’re sending in a job application, what can […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Here’s an appropriate post for a Monday. BusinessWeek has a short article about how some companies, in the name of worker and server sanity, are encouraging workers to hold off sending emails over the weekend. I think we can all relate to coming fresh into the office, only to be deluged […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing all the Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-worker’s favourite, OMG! With the increasing use of e-mail as […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. Hopefully, you weren’t also affected by the FPL power outages. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Oh, I know, I know. You can set an “out of office” autoreply on your email. Everyone can do that! Sheesh. Everyone but you, right? C’mon, it’s just you and me talking here. Every time you encounter one of those “I’m away from my office…” emails, you’re a little jealous. It’s […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough If you’re like me, you spend most of your day wrestling with Microsoft Outlook. Let’s just say that Outlook is not the friendliest, nor the most self-explanatory software program Microsoft ever made. But part of the reason Outlook is such a bear is because Bill built in a virtual encyclopedia of […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Work in an SMS-heavy environment? Not sure what all those young temps in the creative department are saying when they pepper their emails with words like BRB and IMHO (be right back and in my humble opinion, in case you’re still wondering)? Sure you know LOL, but are you feeling like […]

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Posted by Brian McCullough Lots of us have begun using Gmail in conjunction with with our work email systems (if for no other reason than Gmail makes a swell spam mail filter). Still more of us have switched all our personal email needs over to Gmail… for the space, the ease of use, the threaded […]

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