Wednesday, April 28, 2010

8 things I wish everyone knew about email

# Change your settings so that email from you has a name, your name, not a blank or some unusual characters, in the from field. (ask a geek or IT person for help if you don't know how).
# Change your settings so that the bottom of every email includes a signature (often called a sig) that includes your name and your organization.
# Change your settings so that when you reply to a note, the note you're replying to is included below what you write (this is called quoting).
# Don't hit reply all. Just don't. Okay, you can, but read this first.
# You can't recall an email you didn't mean to send. Some software makes you think you can, but you can't. Not reliably.
# Email lives forever, is easy to spread and can easily show up in discovery for a lawsuit.

Read more: Seth Godin's Blog

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