A great list of 99 tips that help to make up the best in email practices has been produced. This list can be viewed at Email Security & Productivity Tips. It discusses many areas from how to ethically use the ‘BCC:’, to what attachments will make your mobile emailing compatible with everyone else’s.
This covers Etiquette; Communicating & Effectiveness; Mobile Email; Productivity, Folders, and Filtering; Email Attachments; Tricks, Hacks, Backup; System-Specific Mail; and Privacy and Security.
Additional References referenced by the Author are:
- A beginner’s guide to effective email: bibliography. This one is packed full of not tips but links, some of which may appear below as well. Here is the link to the main page: A beginner’s guide to effective email.
- Wayne State University email tips. Short, clear and to the point.
- About.com’s 6 simple savvy small business email tips. Tips 2 and 4 are arguable. A contact form is better for first contact from someone else to your company, especially if you don’t know them. And checking email only once a day is just not effective. Three times a day is probably much better. Once a day means that you may find critical email-triggered tasks take much longer to complete.
- Introduction to email. This is the intro page to chapter 4 of the online edition of the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Chapter 10 has tips for using email at work, and Chapter 15, email privacy - a grand illusion.
- Email: Ten tips for writing it effectively has some good tips for effective communication.
- Avoiding the dark side of email.
- Electronic mail etiquette.
- Email etiquette.
This Email Security & Productivity Tips and additional references lists were produced by IT Security.
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