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The Impersonal Nature of Email
I recently posted The Etiquette of Email. As a follow-up, Peter at the Solo In Chicago blog provides great insight into the appropriate use of email: I'm amazed at the vitriol I see written via e-mail particularly from clients and...

Email to remain dominant
Media Post reports on the future of email: One of the issues raised repeatedly during Wednesday's opening sessions at the Email Insider Summit was: Whither email when a younger generation raised on Facebook, MySpace and social networking platforms enters the workforce? Will they use email to communicate with their colleagues,...

Doctor and Patient, Now at Odds
The New York Times reports on an alarming study from Johns Hopkins finding that one out of four patients are skeptical of their physicians. This distrust seems to stem from a system based on impersonal care and declining reimbursements...

Email is Dead, Long Live Email (or your mid-week useful tools)
Lots of email goodness via Tips and Advice Internet: MailTester- find out if an email address is still active/current. Fresh Address, Find mE-Mail and Contact Clean are all services that let you registers your new email address, others can then search by name or previous email to find out your new contact details...

How to Stop the Gossip
A client sent me a worried email about an administrative assistant. The assistant had sent out an email to some executives in the company, and that email had lots of errors. When I read the email thread, I saw the...

Do We Have to Use Email Salutations
I’m always looking for ways to be more productive, especially with email. Heck, I just wrote a series on good email habits. But today I need your help. Do we have to start every email with a salutation or even the recipient’s name? And do we have to close with our own name? My [...

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Recalled Nationwide by Nature & Health

Computer Spyware Act
Spammer to pay $100,000 settlement in email fraud lawsuit.

Microsoft Spam
Richter pays $7 million settlement in deceptive email lawsuit.