The Corporate Guide to the e-fficient use of Microsoft Outlook
- How to turn off arrival indicator.
- Why? I like frequent distractions. I also enjoying distracting others with my Facebook notifications during meetings.
- How often to check email.
- Every waking second as we all are too smart for our own good (-6 IQ points)
- Email etiquette
- Be sure to reply all with ALL thank you notes. ALSO, BE SURE TO USE UPPER CASE TO ADD THE PROPER EMOTION TO YOUR EMAILS TO MATCH OUR IN-PERSON COMMUNICATION.
- How to search email (From x)
- For those used to instant gratification from using gmail, delayed in-gratification is a valuable life skill.
- How to discourage email
- Office hours –
- 9:00 AM
- Brilliant timing as everyone else is still answering their emails so no one actually shows up, but we still get credit.
- 3 strikes and you're out or ball 4, take a walk.
- But long email threads provide useful material for the book I’m writing in my “spare” time tentatively titled
“Miscommunication – How email is Destroying Humanity” - Remove self from mailing lists.
- But I like being notified by bots. It makes me feel more human.
- Create support web site
- But why do we need to provide good customer service? We are a monopoly. They have to use us.
- Periodically change email name
- I can't even remember my password.
Please be sure to reply all with suggestions on how we ALL can reduce email.
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