Email Efficiency Tips from ReplyTool

A recent white paper commissioned by Cisco about effective communication within virtual teams concludes:
‘Silence’ – or non-response to communication (email, voice mail, etc.) can be very damaging to virtual team effectiveness as it leads individuals to misattribute explanations for this silence.
Unfortunately, in many organizations the correct interpretation of silence is almost always along these lines:
“I’m […]

Robert Scoble says he is close to declaring “email bankruptcy.”
I don’t believe he’ll take the drastic step of deleting all his mail and notifying all of his contacts that he’s starting again, because in some ways, email bankruptcy is similar to financial bankruptcy:

it can have a catastrophic effect on your reputation;
you need a recovery plan, […]

You want to meet. The other party wants to meet. You have a common interest in meeting. You’ve agreed to meet, but now you have to work out the logistics. How many emails and/or phone calls will it take to set it up?
A recent 90-minute meeting with someone from another company took a total of […]

There’s one group of people who won’t be suffering from email overload for a while — the 400 Radio Shack employees that were fired via email last week. Now that’s an example of a loaded email! Obviously the folks at Radio Shack have forgotten that some things are communicated much better in a face-to-face meeting, […]

Email is critical part of company infrastructure and business processes, yet it is so structureless. This lack of structure is what makes it so ubiquitous — it’s easy to use it for everything. However, it can be extremely unreliable where strict business workflows must be followed.
If your life depended on it, would you choose email […]

In our company we are using CPanel to manage email accounts.
I setup the Auto-responder to send a message to the email sender. The problem is that the Auto-responder emails are received in Junk/Bulk mails. Why? It should go to the Inbox instead.

The answer is provided by :
HMG M :
that is how the email firm have programmed them. it is more a problem with google than yahoo or hotmail. u cant do anything for this.

Bob Walsh includes the following line at the bottom of his email signature:
(I usually check email every few hours during the day.)

What a great idea! People who correspond with Bob now know that: 

he does not allow incoming email to disturb what he’s doing (he practices GTD), but
he’ll definitely read your message within a few hours.

I’m going […]