Comments on: Never handle a document twice!

By: Clarence

Clarence — Wed, 18 May 2011 02:48:43 +0000

A challenging choice for me is determining which emails to delete before opening. I’ve decided it is better to miss what might be an important email than than trigger future unwanted emails that might occur just by opening one. To bad, so sad; if I miss out on some life-changing bit of info. I don’t worry about it, Dave, because I have your periodic blog to keep me informed…smile.

Clarence

By: Darius Vasefi

Darius Vasefi — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:08:35 +0000

This is a great system Dave, I’ve been trying to do something similar in my emails and just when I thought I was doing OK, I started with twitter which is even tougher since you now have to choose between many potentially beneficial tweets – I think I’m going to have to hire someone just to handle the twitter/Linkedin groups and FB accounts for business. It’s definitely THE challenge of our future.

Best,
Darius

By: Dave Berkus

Dave Berkus — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:46:03 +0000

Lee,
This issue has been a controversial one for years. Those of us with too many to read and are sprayed with cc: requiring no action would like to get the gist of the email and just delete most – again since no action is required.
-Dave

By: Lee Weinberg

Lee Weinberg — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:39:36 +0000

Great advice, but on .cc matters this is not realistic unless —

A. You have an organization doing your work for you (on the .cc’s)

B. You are not responsible for data and responses in the future (like a lawyer is)…