Seth’s Email Checklist
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Seth’s Email Checklist. “Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure.” Amen!
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Seth’s Email Checklist. “Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure.” Amen!
Actually, if someone calls me, they are interrupting something that I consider important. Calling me on the phone without sent e-mail first is probably going to get a hostile reception.
That goes double for one of those “I saw your resume on Monster” callers that never seem to have read what they claim to have seen.
I heartily agree with most of the list.
Thanks for the link.
I will now spam a bunch of people who haven’t followed these rules when sending emails to me in the past … or is that breaking the checklist rules?
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If you need to go down a list of thirty-six bullet points before sending your next email, maybe you should instead learn some basic social and communication skills first.
Excellent guidance! But I would add: If your message is written in all small letters with no punctuation, don’t send it. This irritates anyone who has successfully completed high school.
Great find. Normally I would say that a lot of the points are intuitive but reality has shown otherwise far too often.
Coincidentally, NPR’s been talking this week about email from a number of perspectives. Here’s today’s entry about “email bankruptcy”: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91366853
Heartily agree with @johnbillion above. These are all just common sense things. If you can’t do that automatically, you shouldn’t be sending email at all.
Its a funny list and these things remind some of us what they should be doing, much like letter writing there is a art to email and not everyone can follow the conventions… my personal gripe is with people who’s signature does not include the dash and carriage return so i can not remove it from being quoted in my reply to them…
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk