E-Mail Managment Best Practices

Posted by mrohde
December 5, 2009

Regular blog readers will notice that e-mail and task managment are a common theme this blog.  As I catch up on my blog feeds this weekend I found a great post on the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog entitled “Best Practices for Outlook 2007″ that reenforces many of the Getting Things Done concepts with tactical approches to managing basic tasks in Outlook 2007.

Among the concepts they cover are:

  1. Reduce the number of places you read e-mail
  2. Let some e-mail pass by
  3. Reduce the number of places you manually file messages
  4. Process your e-mail using the 4Ds
  5. Reduce you to-do list to once list
  6. Work in batches
  7. Use good judgment when sending e-mail

While these topice aren’t uncommon GTD sources the Melissa MacBeth does a great job refering each topic to a how-to.

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Thanks for the heads up, I will look into the article. I think that time management is an integral part of being a successful business person and the GTD concepts takes this approach and puts it on steroids. I have grown by leaps and bounds since using the methodology.

Keep up the good work because as we all know, we need to be consistently reminded in order to stay on top of our game.

Thanks

Comment by Jose H. Caraballo on January 19, 2010 @ 9:37 am
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