10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Send That Email

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Email has been on my hit list lately. I seem to have received more than my share. Isn’t that how it always works? Yesterday, I went on an email rampage and caught up on some messages. Today, I thought I would address why you shouldn’t send that email in the first place. Throwing It Over [...]

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TMN Video: Sparrow Email Review

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Today, I want to review a great new app called Sparrow. It is a new Mac mail client. What is so exciting about a new mail app? Well, it just gets mail done. Sparrow is simply the most efficient and effective mail client I have seen.

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8 Things Email Is Good For

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Email doesn’t get much respect these days. After all, it is the new snail mail. It takes up too much of most people’s time. It gets abused. It piles up. It wastes time. Yet, most businesses still live and die by email. So, it has to be good for something, right? The Power of Email [...]

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9 Ways Email Is Destroying Your Company

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The other day, I overheard the following conversation in an elevator: Guy almost yelling at his smartphone, “My inbox is full.  It just keeps coming in!” Co-worker in response while punching buttons on his phone, “I can’t even send email because my account is over its limit!  This is ridiculous!” Yes, it is. The email flood [...]

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Email Rampage! 8 Tips to Find the Bottom of Your Inbox

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This post is not for the faint of heart. Things are going to get ugly with your inbox. (Some might even say dangerous!) And some email is going to get hurt. Today, we are going to get to the bottom of your email inbox…

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Email Ping-Pong!

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There are many types of office games.  However, in today’s world, the favorite seems to be “Email Ping-Pong.” (Some offices have official leagues…) People love to send volleys of emails back and forth.  Some like to see how quickly they can do it.  Others like to see how far they can send their message. The [...]

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Don’t Knock Twice: TMN’s 8 Rules of Communication

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You are sitting in at your desk.  Perhaps, you are meeting with someone or working on an important project. Your desk phone rings and you do not answer because you are busy. What happens next? 10 seconds later, you cell phone rings.  You silence that, too. Finally, you get a text message, “Are you available?” [...]

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Should Email Be a Minimum Job Requirement?

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Once upon a time, email was suppose to make the workplace more efficient. However, at many companies today, email takes up more time than it saves.  It actually reduces company efficiency. Email misuse (and abuse) can quickly bring a workplace’s productivity to a stand still. The irony is that most email chaos is self-inflicted… by [...]

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6 Tips To Free Yourself From Your Technology Leash

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Do you answer your cell phone anytime, anywhere?  No matter what you are doing? Do you check email at night before going to bed?  How about on weekends? When some sends you a text message, do you drop whatever you are doing and respond? Is your technology a tool that gives you more flexibility in [...]

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7 Ways To Be Ruthless With Your Email

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Sometimes you just have to be ruthless with your email.  Otherwise, it will run you over like a freight train. This weekend, there was an interesting USA Today article about a Harris Interactive poll that showed that more than 50 emails a day is the tipping point for most people to be overwhelmed by their [...]

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