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Using Email Effectively

For better or worse, email has revolutionized the nature of business and personal communication around the world.

No longer is it necessary to place a long distance phone call, meet face to face, or write a letter to initiate a conversation. With email you simply press a button and your message can be sent to any number of people anywhere in the world.

If it seems like everyone has email, that’s probably because almost everyone does! According to the UCLA Internet report, 72 percent of Americans use the Internet and 88 percent of internet users use email. In business, these percentages are for all practical purposes 100 percent.

I knew for sure that email had penetrated the last level of resistance when my eighty-five year old mother-in-law bought a laptop and started using email and IM to communicate with her extended family.

In its most recent report, IDCi estimates that there will be 97 billion emails sent in 2008. This is up significantly from the 30 billion emails sent just a few years ago in 2004. While it seems like email has replaced standard postal mail, the US Post Office still delivered 212 billion pieces of mail in 2007, although I suspect that few of these pieces of mail were letters.

Of course, like most things in life, email has the potential to be very beneficial and useful and, at the same time, it has the potential for danger and harm. This material is dedicated to helping you maximize the opportunities of email and minimize the dangers.

What If Martin Luther King Jr. Had Sent An Email?

What if one of the mot famous speeches of all time was sent as an email instead of being delivered as a speech? See for yourself in this video! You can read the entire speeh here.

 

 

Why Email Goes Wrong

This short video demonstrates exactly why email goes wrong.

 

How To Use Email Effectively Book

In this thirty page ebook, Paul explains:

  • Exctly when to use email
  • When not to use email
  • Using email to reduce prejudices and misconceptions
  • Using email to your advantage
  • Finding the hidden information in an email
  • Email best practices
  • How to get a quick response to any email you send
  • Dealing with your inbox

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Murphys Laws of Email

Just for fun... here are Murphys laws of email.

  1. If your message can be misunderstood, it probably will be.
  2. Even if your message cannot be misunderstood, it will still probably be misunderstood.
  3. If a message can be interpreted in several ways, it will be interpreted in a manner that maximizes damages.
  4. There is always someone who knows better than you what you meant by your message.
  5. The more we communicate, the worse communication succeeds.
  6. The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate.
  7. The importance of a message is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the sender.
  8. The more important the situation is, the more probably you forget to include something essential.