We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. (Note: This email can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: email, email management
We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. (Note: This email can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: email, email management
Book Recommendations – Email
Hurst, Mark. Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload.
I have been buying this book in large quantities and have now used it in several workshops and have given it to many of my consulting clients. Not only do I love the way this guy writes (he’s very smart, articulate, [...]
Tags: Bit Literacy, book review, email, email management, Mark Hurst
Jensen, Bill. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Accomplish Less and More.
Are you kidding me? How could I not buy this book? And, I loved it even though I disagreed with portions of it. I gained a number of very useable ideas and appreciate the author’s irreverent style. He is pushing hard to try [...]
Tags: Bill Jensen, email, email management, email simplicity, simplicity
Sherwood, Kaitlin. Overcome Email Overload: Get Through Your Electronic Mail Faster.
I wish she would update her books, but essentially, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002 hasn’t changed much with the newer versions. She has a plethora of ideas that I have put into practice. If you use Eudora, she also has a version for that software. VERY HELPFUL!
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Song, Mike; Halsey, Vicki; & Burress, Tim. The Hamster Revolution: Stop Info-Glut–Reclaim Your Life.
Although the use of a hamster as the main character throughout this book is a tiny bit irritating, the book itself is excellent. You just have to ignore Mr. Hamster. These authors have done extensive research on how to increase productivity by [...]
Tags: email management, hamster revolution, Mike Song, Tim Burress, Vicki Halsey
Shipley, David & Schwalbe, Will. SEND: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.
Much of what’s in this book is common sense…at least one would think so. However, a good portion of what the authors share clearly isn’t being demonstrated as common sense or common practice up to this point. Read this book and [...]
Tags: David Shipley, email guide, email management, Will Schwalbe
Morgenstern, Julie. Never Check E-Mail in the Morning (And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work).
Morgenstern originally published this book under the title: Making Work Work, and then realized that the provocative phrase “Never Check Email in the Morning” would make her book fly off the shelves. It should fly off the shelf [...]
Tags: email, email management, Julie Morgenstern
McGhee, Sally. Take Back Your Life! Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized.
For anyone who uses Microsoft Outlook, this books is worth reading…and even if you don’t, most of the concepts apply across the various types of productivity software. As I skimmed this book at the bookstore prior to buying it, I thought, [...]
Tags: email management, email organizing, Microsoft Outlook, Sally McGhee
Trapani, Gina. Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day.
A hacker is “Someone who solves a problem in a clever or non-obvious way. A lifehacker uses workarounds and shortcuts to overcome everyday difficulties of the modern worker: an interrupt-driven existence of too much to do and too many distractions to keep you from doing it” [...]
Tags: email management, email tricks, Gina Trapani, lifehacker, tech tricks
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