Review of Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
Submitted by kingrat on Tue, 2007-08-14 16:18.I spent 12 years in the corporate world, and saw a lot of bad email practices. Here's my review of Shipley and Schwalbe's guide to sending effective email, mostly for the corporate world.
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Ahh, if you don’t know about readnotify.com (it’s been around forever, it’s far more advanced than that silly tag thing) yet, this is quite a handy tool for business email.
Know how many times it is opened, who it is forwarded to and forwarded to again and again.
It also includes the ability to send self destructive email. Now I’m sure there probably is a way to save a self destructor and bring it back up, its digital there are always tracks. :)
I like that this covers my pet hate- people who don’t use the CC and BCC, far worse with private email. I hate receiving someone else’s entire address book, almost as much as I hate friendship forwards with <<<<<, sent to me because I’m someone’s best friend, along with the other 100 names in the TO list, including their internet service provider help team.
Yeap, when I ran my little business, clients would send me these!
Yup. Familiar with readnotify.com. Have it blocked from my email accounts and I believe my previous office employer had it permanently blocked at the corporate level. You can send me something through them and it won't track me.
I keep my personal email private. To the point that every website I sign up with gets a unique email address. Everything forwards to my one true email address. I've had to yell at a few of my friends who passed around my real email address to others by putting it on the To line. Hate hate hate!
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