email overload

You’ll find as many articles on managing email as you find on weight loss. Holly Reisem Hanna, the founder of The Work at Home Woman, suggests several tips for managing email. She focuses on managing the inbox, but I think she misses what each of us can do to help our colleagues, such as:

• Short, focused emails
• Reducing number of people on :cc or :bcc
• Reducing email chain by deleting extraneous emails not pertinent to the issue