E-mail is supposed to help us save time, right?  So why do we waste so much time reading and writing e-mail?  In her post “10 Tips: My Personal Journey Toward Maintaining Inbox Zero,” Dawn Foster shares sure-fire tips for handling, sorting and deleting e-mail (I’m going to start using Hiveminder from tip #4). Her complete [...]

Just when you thought you’d heard the last of stupid e-mail mistakes, here are a few more:

You try to bcc someone on an e-mail but mistakenly put their address in the cc column. It’s hard to secretly copy someone on an e-mail when their e-mail address is clearly on the e-mail.

Not proofreading an e-mail before [...]

Last night I pulled a major bonehead move. I forwarded an e-mail without scrolling completely down and reading the last sentence. As I pushed send, I looked at the last line and let out a loud, “Nooooooooo!” The friend who had sent me the original e-mail, knowing I was going to forward [...]

When I was in the corporate world and traveled for business, my assistant booked my travel, handled my calls and dealt with client requests. After years of working naked, when I leave town it’s up to me to stay in touch with my clients, handle any issues with my business and book my own travel. [...]

Some people think I’m extra organized because I always enter notes in my iPhone. The truth is I have the world’s worst memory. I can remember faces not names, directions not addresses, cereal not the milk. I’ve finally taken a few steps to try to improve my memory or at least fake [...]