Well, we are on the home stretch of Clean Out Your Inbox Week. Hope you’re making progress in taking your inbox to zilch!
Here is a great infographic you can share. It depicts the mounting email overload issue and gives you 5 steps to take to help conquer it. You are welcome to share it with all fellow emailers, too.
Is your inbox empty yet?
Here is an eight page, printable magazine entitled “E-mail Savvy,” that has a lot of great tips and information that will help you be more productive with your e-mail. Please feel free to pass it on to anyone who you think will benefit… Click here!
And if you’re interested in our 98 page Clean Out Your Inbox Week eKit, to help you “clean out” your work group, here is more information.
It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week, and each day of this week we are providing our e-mailing and followers with free resources to spur them on to the holy grail of that empty inbox.
Today’s offering is an 8 1/2 by 11 poster that you can print and share with your workgroup. It outlines the 10 best practices of a positive e-mailing culture, so if everyone can follow these practices, you will all find greater productivity.
Here is the link for you to register to receive this complementary PDF. Print a lot of them, and place them all over your office!
Hey folks,
You’ve asked me many times for how to get rid of spam – this article is great, not only for email but all the other life-spams you might have. Just in time for Clean Out Your Inbox Week, too…
Here’s the link: http://lifehacker.com/5878092/how-to-de+spam-your-life
Have at it!
OK. It is the 5th annual Clean Out Your Inbox Week!
Time to start the year right, get organized, get rid of clutter, and that means your overflowing inbox too!
Here is your freebie for the day – a great 8 1/2 x 11 poster that you can print and hang everywhere. Click here to download it.
It says, “Want to Receive Less Email? SEND Less Email” It is a known fact that the more email you send, the more you’ll receive, so you are pretty much in charge of your own email destiny. Funny how some folks don’t realize that!???
Click here to download your first freebie of the week
Maybe you’ve become aware of the fact that you can’t seem to stop yourself from refreshing your Gmail inbox, your Facebook homepage, or your endless Twitter feed. Maybe you’re a student working toward your master’s degree, and you’re working full-time, too, to pay your way through school and you’ve come to realize your dependency on (or perhaps obsession with) the Internet. If you’re starting to think this sounds a lot like you, then maybe it’s time for an Internet detox.
At first it sounds scary. Even impossible. Maybe you’re genuinely perplexed when you begin to wonder how you ever survived before the Internet came along. Maybe you’ve taken after the “digital natives” and have forgotten what answering machines were for.
But we survived. Before the iPhone, we really did survive. And our minds were calmer then. The endless chatter of online communication — whether trivial or business-related — has removed many of us from the simpler life and led us to forget how to relax.
It is okay to take a break. You are allowed a break. You are allowed freedom. And it’s healthy to take a vacation from work, school, the “Twitterverse” every once in a while. Tell yourself you deserve it (because you do).
We live in a fast-paced world of technological communication where we are now able and expected to communicate with our coworkers, bosses, friends, family and community anytime, anywhere, 24/7; the Internet has morphed us into, if not workaholics, webaholics. So, as hard as it may be at first, it’s more important than ever to let yourself take a short-but-sweet vacation from your online responsibilities: to close your laptop, turn off your phone, and unplug your commitments for a while, to enjoy what you’ve probably missed out on for far too long: real life.
Emily Matthews is currently applying to master’s degree programs across the U.S., and loves to read about new research into health care, gender issues, and literature. She lives and writes in Seattle, Washington.
Hi. Marsha Egan here, inviting you to join others who’ve emptied their inboxes during the 5th annual Clean Out Your Inbox Week.#2: Share this button with anyone who needs to get on this band wagon too.
#3: Download these 5 pages of great tips, as a reward for your clean inbox, and to help you keep your inbox under control.
Then #4, finally, below, share your best tip(s) for emptying that inbox and keeping it empty.
Wishing you a Detoxed Inbox,
Marsha
P.S. Join us 1/23 and 1/25 at 1:00 EST for two Tweetchats on best ways to manage your incoming email and how to keep others’ nasty habits from infecting you. Hashtag #emptyinboxchat
CEO Tierry Breton may be the first brave soul to ban the use of internal email, but he won’t be the last. And sadly, he won’t solve anything. Within 18 months his 75,000 member staff will stop sending one another email and instead rely on instant messaging and chat-style services similar to Facebook (read more).
There is no doubt that technology has done wonders for the field of communications. It has brought us increased messaging speed and an insatiable appetite for content. But, what it hasn’t done is reinvent the wheel. At the core, humans still have only two ways to communicate: speaking and writing.
Leaders like Breton are prone to seek technology solutions for communication problems. They want to free employees from inbox bulge and find a way to streamline business decisions. But, the problem with email isn’t technology; it’s the writer.
Top netiquette mishaps include:
Intentions are good, but since email robs users of what experts agree are the most important elements of effective communication—tone and nonverbal expression—everyone is at a disadvantage. Unfortunately, these persuaders, which are so vital for influencing change and building relationships, are not only lost through instant messaging, they’re even less valued.
So, with more than 107 trillion emails going out this year, let’s wish Mr. Breton luck. But for those of you stuck battling the inbox dilemma, find a little hope with Hush Files.
Melissa DeLay is a communication strategist who has mastered the art of making positive impressions. She’s passionate about teaching others how to unleash their powers of persuasion-of going beyond words-to drive behavior change, inspire innovation and grow business. Melissa hosts a how-to blog on delivering bad news called Spill the Truth.
We all know the continuing trend of knowledge workers using smart phones, computers, and other electronic devices outside of working time. Most people will agree that this trend cannot be healthy for the individual worker, yet it appears to have a snowballing effect that is just not stopping. Companies are starting to step in to “legislate” the boundaries that we should all be using from a common sense standpoint.
In case you missed it, the French information technology services giant, Atos, took the radical step of banning internal e-mail altogether in 2014. And last month, the maker of Persil washing powder, Hinkel, declared e-mail amnesty between Christmas and New Year.
I have never been a proponent of e-mail bans, whether it is “e-mail free Fridays ,” or drastic measures such as those taken by Atos . With e-mail being one of the most efficient and effective ways to communicate when used properly, we can’t and shouldn’t just shut it down. Instead, we should work towards the effective use of it. Let’s look forward to the upcoming fifth annual Clean Out Your Inbox Week, January 23-27.
Most interesting to me, though, is that Volkswagen in Germany actually set up their servers to stop routing the e-mails to workers 30 minutes before their work start time in 30 minute after their work end time. I am going to be interested to see how this works, and if it can be sustained over time.
What do you think ?
RSS Feed of Inbox Detox
Your
inbox is making you sick, and
Inbox Detox - And the Habit of E-mail Excellence Order yours today. Detoxify your Inbox tomorrow
Invest an hour to save thousands!
#emptyinboxchat
