Tina Lewis Rowe

Tag: email

  • Your Email Subject Line Should Fit the Message

    Another Email Etiquette Tip: Make your email subject line fit your message.  It is convenient to select “reply” to an email from someone, as a way to save the time of entering an address–and sometimes that is appropriate for a quick turn-around email. However, it is frustrating to be searching for a phone number, schedule…

  • One More Time: Avoid Embarrassing People In CCed Emails

    Think Before You CC This may seem to be my One Tune Topic for the last few months, but it seems that it cannot be emphasized enough. Consider these snippets from emails, all which were copied to several people (some not even part of the organizations involved.) • “If you don’t have the skill to do…

  • Email, Phone Or In-Person Communication?

          There are plenty of reasons to communicate about inter-office business in person, rather than sending an email or calling on the phone–especially if the recipient is down the hall or only a floor away. There are also plenty of reasons to stay at your own desk and send a message or make…

  • Think Before You CC

    Must You Copy Someone On That Message?    Being able to send a typed message to several people at once is one of the great benefits of email.  However, many people misuse the benefit and make it one of the worst aspects of a great concept.  Remember: Email doesn’t waste time. People misusing email waste time.  Unless you have been…

  • Do You Need New Ways To Be Annoying?

    I’ve sometimes wondered if the person who is driving me crazy is only that way in a specific setting (the one I’m in at the time) or if he or she is always that way. Fortunately for my peace of mind, I don’t consider the idea that I might be annoying as well. Highly improbable! My friend…

  • The History of @

    An At By Any Other Name Still Gets Email Delivered Checking the library and the Internet will provide you with several histories of the @ symbol. Each of the sources state their version with complete confidence and authority.  (That’s how false history and urban legends get started. ) I am putting my trust in this well documented…