Long Emails Don’t Get Read

According to Craig Jarrow, the author of Time Management Ninja web site, effective email communication is as much a skill as anything else. The shorter and tighter your email messages, the better chance that they will be read, understood and acted upon.

Here are 10 Reasons That Your Emails Are Too Long:

1. You don’t know what you are trying to say
2. You don’t know what you are talking about
3. Your signature is unnecessary
4. You are writing a book
5. You are spamming
6. You are rambling
7. You are forwarding a mess
8. It shouldn’t be an email
9. It should be multiple emails
10. You don’t edit your emails

In today’s high-speed communication, no one wants to read overly long email messages.

So, get to the point!

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How Shakespeare would run a business

What leadership lessons may we learn from the great English playwright and poet?

In her article, published in a monthly series focusing on business and leadership lessons from prominent figures in history, Laurie Kulikowski describes the inspirational process that changed the way people looked at literature.

Here are some of the key points:

1. be not afraid of greatness: “some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them” (Twelfth Night)
2. maximise exposure: take an active role in your local community and pitch your business story to local media;
3. learn from failure: no one wants to befriend failure, but if we do, we certainly don’t forget its visit anytime soon!
4. get to know your employees, as King Henry V, disguised as a commoner, wandering among his troops to understand their readiness and their morale.

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Email Etiquette: 8 Tips for a More Civilized Inbox

Email is an essential part of modern communication. Amy-Mae Elliott have collected eight essential tips for contemporary email etiquette.

For instance, set up a separate email signature for use on mobile devices, and use a more considerate out-of-office message.

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Diplomatic Reporting at the age of Wikileaks

Amb. Roberto Toscano, former Italian Ambassador in New Delhi and Teheran, and Lecturer at the Italian Diplomatic Institute, has been interviewed on some aspects of Diplomatic Reporting.

First Question is: “What can we learn in terms of diplomatic reporting from Wikileaks documents?”

Second Question is: New Technologies should be used to report more or to report in a different way?

Third Question is: “What diplomats should keep in mind when writing a report?”

Impact of technology on writing

“Has word processing changed the way we write?”

In his Blog on “The Observer”  John Naughton  tries to answer this question, thirty years after Microsoft Word was invented.