Taking Control of Email: TICAL Arkansas

Taking Control Of Email

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Top Ten Mistakes Managers Make with Email

Top Ten Mistakes Managers Make With Email
1. Using vague subject lines.
4. Failing to clean up the mess of earlier replies/forwards.
5. Ignoring grammar and mechanics.
7. Mashing everything together into bulky, imposing, inaccessible paragraphs.
8. Neglecting the human beings at the other end.
9. Thinking email works best.
10. Forgetting that email lasts forever.

Summarized from the Wall Street Journal

Business Email Overload

Great list of problems with email and potential solutions. While written for a "business" audience it certainly applies in schools as well. Enjoy!

Business Email Overload

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Email Solution from Principal Jack Jarvis

Check out this brief video posted on the TICAL site for an interesting strategy for dealing with email overload.

Xobni

Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments. After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender's full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool to help you deal with email overload.

Check here for more info.

Fast Company: Tools to tackle email

Here is the link to an article in Fast Company entitled "Reengineer Your Inbox: Six tools to help tackle overflowing email with assembly-line efficiency."

I haven't personally used these plug-ins but some of them sound very promising. Anybody out there tried these?

Devin Vodicka