Are You Perceived as Terse?

What many e-mailers do not realize is how easy it is to come off as blunt, terse or demanding. Even with your every day e-mails it is so very important to make sure that you present yourself with … [Read more...]

Top 10 Scariest Email “Boo-Boos”!

On this weekend of being scary, screaming and acting like someone or something else, what a perfect time to write about the.... <insert scary organ music here> The Top 10 Scariest Email … [Read more...]

If You Don’t Know Them; Don’t E-mail Them!

Here is a hypothetical situation I get asked about quite often.  Let's say someone has something of interest (usually of interest only to those who e-mail me this type of question) to share with all … [Read more...]

No Conact Name to Send a Resume to? Now What?

How do you address an e-mail when you do not have a specific person's name? Onliners often run into this dilemma when job hunting and e-mail me asking what to do. Most sites do include an … [Read more...]

Texting, IM and Chat Availability Expectations

Many expect that if they "see" you are online, that you have time to chat. In my experience, when you don't do what other onliners expect, or you let them know those expectations are not entirely … [Read more...]

Are You Being Blown-Off?

How much time should go by before you assume you've been "blown off" and when (or if) should you send another message? Something I have to remind myself about is that a lot of onliners do not check … [Read more...]

Proper E-mail Forwarding and Privacy

A site visitor writes: How to tell the people on my lists: that exposing so many email addresses in their "From" field is dangerous to those addies and terribly annoying for recipients who have … [Read more...]

Getting E-mail Returns?

Undeliverable error messages are the protocol in place to let you know when messages sent do not (for many reasons) make it to the intended recipient. You want to become familiar with how these … [Read more...]

Remember, E-mails are Sempiternal

What?!  If you follow any of my Blogs, you'll know that every once and awhile I run into a new fun word that spawns a post.  Sempiternal is one of those words. sempiternal \sem-pih-TUR-nuhl\, … [Read more...]

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