Don’t Send E-mail to Important People on Monday Mornings
Why? Because it will get lost in the shuffle of massive minutia most heavy hitters face every Monday morning. Instead, send your significant communication Sunday afternoon. (Unless it’s a complaint.) This gets their relatively undivided attention because most VIPs check their business messages before the work week begins. That’s one of the reasons he or […]
New look Gmail
Gmail is the most powerful email application on the planet. It revolutionised how people use web-based email. For many years email users relied on either Microsoft Outlook or some software application to download emails daily, send and receive, etc. Hotmail became a hot property when Microsoft purchased it in the 1990s. However, spammers soon began […]
A civilized list when not to use email
Hot on the heals of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well.
The lack of Email Netiquette as the Internet grows in South Africa
My mentor Arthur Goldstuck has just released his latest stats on Internet growth in South Africa. According to his annual study growth has slowed down to 3% per annum and by the end of 2007 we will have ONLY 3.85 million South Africans online. This is including the explosion of access since broadband became available […]