Email Bullies

A site visitor writes: Could you please evaluate this message. The person that sends this states it means nothing to have the ???, !!! and cap letters, but he continues to do it. John: Please send the updated spreadsheet for this project???????? Send this document – NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It means nothing?! The first sentence doesn’t even warrant one [...]

Is E-mail Too Easy?

A concerned site visitor comments: “Do we overuse e-mail as a communication medium? In many instances, e-mail is the “easy approach” but not necessarily the best approach.” Yes we are. Many have chosen to take the lazy, easy way out and not pick up the old fashioned telephone or have an in-person meeting when that [...]

No Name? Then You ARE a Nobody!

E-mail Etiquette includes reflecting your name in the From: field settings of your e-mail program.  Because you can e-mail in anonymity doesn’t mean you should.  Not only is it rude; it makes one wonder why you do not have the intestinal fortitude to back up your questions, comments or claims by identifying yourself?  Chicken? I’m visible [...]