So lets talk about email... Answer the following questions:

1. How many emails do you get a day? (If you don't know, guess)
2. How often do you check email?
3. What is your strategy on responding to email?
4. What do you do with your email once you've responded to it?

My answers follow after the break.

I know I disappeared for a week and that's bad. I was trying to stay sane and stay on top of a deluge of work. However, I'm back on the Tuesday - Thursday posting cycle and I'm trying a different tack. I read an article over the weekend about taming the email beast and I wondered what comments you might have regarding the struggle between work and email. Is email an efficient way for organizing work for you, or is it a distraction from getting real work done?

This is a kind of boring entry, but I'm on vacation and since I often write about things related to my own reality, here goes. I had reason (unrelated to work) to think about the different methods of electronic communication and outline them in my mind. Because the method I receive communication is often instrumental as to how I organize my work, I thought it would be useful...

So, I'm scrounging today - first time in a while I haven't had a post lined up and ready to go ahead of time. And I'm thinking of things I did today, since it was the first work day (for me) of the month, and I thought of something very useful. Stationery in Eudora! Stationery is a great way to save yourself from having to retype the same, or similar emails over and over again over time. Read on...