Using Email Effectively
For better or worse, email has revolutionized the nature of
business and personal communication around the world.
No longer is it necessary to place a long distance phone
call, meet face to face, or write a letter to initiate a
conversation. With email you simply press a button and your
message can be sent to any number of people anywhere in the
world.
If it seems like everyone has email, that’s probably because
almost everyone does! According to the UCLA Internet report, 72
percent of Americans use the Internet and 88 percent of
internet users use email. In business, these percentages are
for all practical purposes 100 percent.
I knew for sure that email had penetrated the last level of
resistance when my eighty-five year old mother-in-law bought a
laptop and started using email and IM to communicate with her
extended family.
In its most recent report, IDCi estimates that there will be
97 billion emails sent in 2008. This is up significantly from
the 30 billion emails sent just a few years ago in 2004. While
it seems like email has replaced standard postal mail, the US
Post Office still delivered 212 billion pieces of mail in 2007,
although I suspect that few of these pieces of mail were
letters.
Of course, like most things in life, email has the potential
to be very beneficial and useful and, at the same time, it has
the potential for danger and harm. This material is
dedicated to helping you maximize the opportunities of email
and minimize the dangers.
What If Martin Luther King Jr. Had Sent An Email?
What if one of the mot famous speeches of all time was sent
as an email instead of being delivered as a speech? See for
yourself in this video! You can read the entire speeh here.
Why Email Goes Wrong
This short video demonstrates exactly why email goes
wrong.
How To Use Email Effectively Book
In this thirty page ebook, Paul explains:
- Exctly when to use email
- When not to use email
- Using email to reduce prejudices and
misconceptions
- Using email to your advantage
- Finding the hidden information in an email
- Email best practices
- How to get a quick response to any email you send
- Dealing with your inbox
Murphys Laws of
Email
Just for fun... here are
Murphys laws of email.
- If your message can be
misunderstood, it probably
will be.
- Even if your message
cannot be misunderstood, it
will still probably be
misunderstood.
- If a message can be
interpreted in several
ways, it will be
interpreted in a manner
that maximizes
damages.
- There is always someone
who knows better than you
what you meant by your
message.
- The more we
communicate, the worse
communication
succeeds.
- The more we
communicate, the faster
misunderstandings
propagate.
- The importance of a
message is inversely
proportional to the square
of the distance of the
sender.
- The more important the
situation is, the more
probably you forget to
include something
essential.
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