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Effective Email I write a lot...

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Effective Email I write a lot...

Submitted by Technology Agnostic (not verified) on September 19, 2005 - 4:49pm.

Effective Email

I write a lot of email. Sometimes I dont know my audience very well and I want to make sure Im concise as possible about what I need and what I believe the next action to be (yeah, sounds corp-o-rate). Check out this articl…

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Writing sensible email messages By: Merlin Mann (40 replies) September 19, 2005 - 1:59am
  • All good stuff. I... By: Tommy Weir (2005-09-19 04:20)
  • These are great tips! Thanks!... By: david (2005-09-19 05:57)
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  • Acronyms that may be useful... By: Liam Delahunty (2005-09-19 23:17)
  • A structured writting class I... By: JonathanPeterson (2005-09-20 01:42)
  • Great tips. One additional thing I've... By: joe (2005-09-20 01:55)
  • joe - I use that... By: PaulD (2005-09-20 03:07)
  • I'm forwarding the text of... By: Chris (2005-09-20 03:19)
  • I totally agree with you... By: Merlin (2005-09-20 03:19)
  • Great post; very useful. ... By: TPB, Esq. (2005-09-20 03:21)
  • RTFM should probably be the... By: Adam Rice (2005-09-20 03:39)
  • Another tip - use double-spacing... By: Steve (2005-09-20 03:58)
  • People use email in different... By: Matt J (2005-09-20 06:03)
  • When I compose the entire... By: James Schend (2005-09-20 08:42)
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