Comments on: The Project Management Tip You Can’t Ignore

By: Mike Song

Mike Song — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:38:26 +0000

Tom – I’m presenting at Techknowledge in Vegas – Hope to see you there.

Mike

By: Mike Song

Mike Song — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:37:56 +0000

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By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:48:55 +0000

Sorry I’m late in commenting… behind on email

Interesting how the wisdom of the elders eventually catches on! I have been using these techniques for years. One that I find to be especially effective is to include “TIME-SENSITIVE” in the subject line of my emails, and I always bullet content for easier reading. It is called ‘reader focused’.

Glad to see this post!
Christine

By: tom

tom — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:50:49 +0000

@Rhonda: good point

By: Rhonda Goetz

Rhonda Goetz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:52:18 +0000

The “After” and chunking method is wonderful if you are using HTML, but most security conscience corporation convert it to text only…

So always make it short and sweet and use paragraphs!

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:37:57 +0000

@SheriM: thanks for the comment and welcome to the blog.

By: SheriM

SheriM — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:11:30 +0000

This is a wonderful post. I have worked in the corporate world where the email box has hundreds of emails a day. Sometimes it can be very overwhelming. When the emails are in paragraph form I find myself just glancing through it and then sometimes I miss the call to action. The format proposed here would help me to get all the facts quickly and not miss things again. It will help me move the task from my short term memory into the long term memory and help me to remember what needs to be completed. This format helps me relate the information into an already known structure in my brain. I tend to be logical when I organize thoughts, trying to put them into schema. A schema is a structure that organizes large amounts of information into a meaningful system ((Laureate, 2009, p72). This helps me stay on task and complete them in an orderly manner.

I will keep this format in mind while sending work related posts in the future. I hope to start a new trend in how others look at email. Thanks again,
SheriM
References:
Laureate, Inc. (2009). Learning theories and instruction. New York: Pearson.

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By: elearning developers

elearning developers — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:33:47 +0000

We put the job code at the start of every project email subject line. It makes it much easier to search later during the project and the client always knows it is specific to the project. Works really well especially when combined with a call to action.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:26:57 +0000

@PM Hut, I like the tip on waiting until 4.