Overcoming Email Overload at the ABA
Tomorrow (Thursday) at 10:00-11:30 AM Pacific / 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education (ABA-CLE) is holding a teleconference and live webcast about...
View ArticleKeyboard Evolution
I recently bought a new wireless keyboard and mouse combination. As I surveyed the available models, I realized that the main differentiator for me was size — I wanted the footprint to be as small as...
View ArticleUse Your Email Signature To Set Expectations
Bob Walsh includes the following line at the bottom of his email signature: (I usually check email every few hours during the day.) What a great idea! People who correspond with Bob now know that: he...
View ArticleWould you bet your life on email?
Email is critical part of company infrastructure and business processes, yet it is so structureless. This lack of structure is what makes it so ubiquitous — it’s easy to use it for everything. However,...
View ArticleLoaded Emails
There’s one group of people who won’t be suffering from email overload for a while — the 400 Radio Shack employees that were fired via email last week. Now that’s an example of a loaded email!...
View ArticleHow many emails to set up a meeting?
You want to meet. The other party wants to meet. You have a common interest in meeting. You’ve agreed to meet, but now you have to work out the logistics. How many emails and/or phone calls will it...
View ArticleRecovering from Email Bankruptcy
Robert Scoble says he is close to declaring “email bankruptcy.” I don’t believe he’ll take the drastic step of deleting all his mail and notifying all of his contacts that he’s starting again, because...
View ArticleThe Speak-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace Approach
A recent white paper commissioned by Cisco about effective communication within virtual teams concludes: ‘Silence’ – or non-response to communication (email, voice mail, etc.) can be very damaging to...
View ArticleHow to expand Outlook’s preview area with a single keystroke
Is your preview area squashed so narrow that you can’t comfortably read messages in Outlook’s main window? I’ll show you how you can use a single keystroke to expand it to read your messages, and then...
View ArticleSolving the Productivity vs. Security Dilemma
Many of us find ourselves processing email while on the road. In fact, sitting on a plane, or while waiting for one, is probably the best time to catch up on a stuffed inbox. However, when we’re away...
View ArticleSpeedFiler 1.1 Released!
SpeedFiler is a major factor in how I keep my inbox under control, and without it, my outgoing items would all be dumped in Sent Items, instead of in the folders they really belong in. Basically, it...
View ArticleIdle minds solve problems
Cognitive psychologist Malia Mason, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, has published research that backs up my earlier post on how to solve problems using your subconscious mind. I know...
View ArticleEmail Newsletters: Time Wasters or Valuable Information Sources?
Newsletters seem to take up an incredible amount of space in my inbox. There are some I just can’t bring myself to unsubscribe from, even though I can’t remember the last time I got anything useful out...
View ArticleEmail Newsletter Study: Surprising Initial Results
I’ve been tracking my newsletter intake over the past week, and I must admit to being rather surprised at the results. I received only 55 messages from 37 sources that can be described as newsletters,...
View ArticleChange of Address
I’ve just registered a “proper” domain name for this blog. It now resides at http://email-overloaded.com. The folks at WordPress.com have rigged things smoothly, so that if you use the old address,...
View ArticleNagless Reminders — Get the Recipient to Respond On Time and Cut Through...
Have you ever had to repeatedly nag someone to deliver on a commitment? What if it’s a commitment that is voluntary, i.e. you’re not the other person’s boss, and you cannot force them to do it? The...
View ArticleEmail Bankruptcy Continues to Spread
Today’s Washington Post carries an article about an increasing number of people who find themselves having to declare email bankruptcy. The article is full of sad cases of people who think that...
View ArticleSpeedFiler Featured on the Cranky Middle Manager Show
I recently had the good fortune to be invited to talk about SpeedFiler and the problems it can solve, in a special Productivity Tools broadcast on Wayne Turmel’s Cranky Middle Manager Show (part of The...
View ArticleEmail message ends up on road sign
You really have to be careful what you write in an email – you never know where it may end up… This out-of-office automatic response message made it onto a bilingual road sign in Wales! If you don’t...
View ArticleTurn the radio off (auditory overload)
Do you always have the radio on in the background? From the moment I wake up in the morning until I get out of the car at the office, the radio spews its news out at me (I find news more stimulating...
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