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Tag Archives: e-mail

The Difference between Workload and Expectations Management

January 18, 2010 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

Recognizing the difference between problems in workload and problems with defining expectations can help settle anxieties about e-mail, social media, and the like.

E-mail Is Not a Tool for Revision

November 19, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

For 2010, let's break the habit of using e-mail to collaboratively edit documents.

Worst Practices: E-mail (Part I)

October 27, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

What's wrong with e-mail isn't always that everybody else does it wrong. Some obstacles to e-mail zen, in which work e-mail is compared to grooming the fur for parasites.

Institutional Memory II: What about that e-mail . . . ?

October 2, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

Another look at institutional memory, this time focused on e-mail. I ask in general how people archive e-mail materials, but also pass along a request about managing e-mail in Entourage.

The ProfHacker Podcast: Merlin Mann and the First Person Transitive

September 11, 2009 in Podcasts, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

Launch week at ProfHacker continues today with our very first podcast, featuring a very special guest: Merlin Mann, of 43folders, Inbox Zero, and the comedy podcast troupe You Look Nice Today! A Journal of Emotional Hygiene. Mann first became internet-famous for 43folders.com, a site concerned with how to sustain the attention necessary for creative work.