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With all the buzz surrounding social media, RSS, video and every other online outlet… one standby that gets taken for granted is good ol’ email. We all use it (and some of us love it), but it also can be a source of enormous frustration that can eat up a lot of the workday. Much of inbox-related angst is easily avoided with a few simple changes in what you use for email and how you process it. In no particular order, here’s my “Top-Ten” tips for helping email help you…

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Anyone who uses email on a regular basis (or like me, depends on it as I do oxygen & water), has had the experience of being misunderstood in a message. I try to take the time whenever possible to carefully craft my wording so I am not only understood clearly, but also understood in the [...]

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Buzzword Watch: Bacn

by Mary on June 19, 2008

Buzzword alert: bacn – yep, that’s “bacon” minus the O. It differs from its less-desirable cousin spam, in that bacn, while also a variety of delicious pork product, is defined as email that you solicited, but still may consider a distraction. Examples include automated messages from sites such as Facebook or CNN breaking news alerts. [...]

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Most know that email accounts have some limit on the size of files you can attach to messages – typically it’s less than 10MB…which is not a lot in the world of YouTube and Podcasts. Many (like me) are fans of file transfer services like YouSendIt – which provides “drop box” service for any large [...]

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Get The Most Out of E-Mail with IMAP

by Mary on June 8, 2008

One of the best kept secrets to efficient email management lies in the protocol (how’s that for a $10 word!) that the email system uses. Aside from free email accounts, if you have domain email (you@yourdomain.com) – you’re more than likely using the emailboxes included with your web hosting service.
What most don’t realize is [...]

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