15 Tricks to Appear Smart in Emails by Sarah Cooper.
From the post:
If you don’t care about appearing smart in emails, you can stop reading now.
Oh good, we’re alone.
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills. Here are 15 email tricks that will make you appear smart, passionate, dedicated and most of all, smart.
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Great illustrations to go along with the 15 tricks so see Sarah’s post.
Update: Is this beat up on email day? See: University administrator demands new email emphasis tool
Edinburgh. A University administrator has demanded a new tool with which to emphasize parts of e-mails, having exhausted traditional methods such as bold, italics, red text and flashing text.
“The simple fact is that people ignore my emails” said Ima Jobsworth, a senior administrator at the University of Berwick. “In the early days I used bold and italics to emphasize parts of the text, and people paid attention” he contnued. “But then they figured out that the bold and italicised sections were just as irrelevant to them as the rest of the email, perhaps even more so”.
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