10 Gmail Tips and Time-Savers
Posted by Celia Walter | 18 Apr, 200810 Gmail Tips and Time-Savers
ILibrarian blog April 17th, 2008
Web Worker Daily creates a list of 10 time-savers for Gmail users, here are their abbreviated suggestions:
- Customize Your Settings
- Create Filters
- Use Keyboard Shortcuts
- Connect Securely
- Search By Subject Only
- Show Search Options
- Use Query Words
- Use the Hyphen to Eliminate Unwanted Search Results
- Ferret Out Attachments
- Use Parentheses to Narrow Down Query Results
Email Flaming Behaviors
Posted by Celia Walter | 13 Nov, 2007Email Flaming Behaviors and Organizational Conflict
Source: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications
This study explores whether the attributes listed in the literature on flaming in email are considered characteristic of flaming by actual email users. Through the creation of a semantic differential scale—called the Message Invectives Scale—the study took eight concepts found in more than 20 research articles on flaming and examined email users’ responses to a set of 20 messages in relation to those eight characteristics. Findings indicate that in each of the 20 cases, six of the original eight concepts relate to each other to form a common set, which also correlates positively with perceptions of flaming. Some of the messages that scored high for flaming contained profanity, all capital letters, excessive exclamation points or question marks, indicating that these attributes also relate to flaming. Based on these findings, recommendations are advanced as to how email should be used to avoid negative attributes that can lead to organizational conflict.
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Unwanted Email
Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Jun, 2007Say "No, Thanks" to Unwanted Email (PDF; 662 KB)
Source: McAfee, Inc
Whether you're a consumer or business user, when you need to decide whether to unsubscribe or block unwanted mail, follow these simple steps:
- Is the message from a known sender? If so, you can safely unsubscribe.
- Is the message from a reputable company that you have done business with in the past? If so, you can safely unsubscribe.
- Is the sender of the email always the same? If so, block the sender.
- Does the sender change each time but key phrases in the subject or message body remain the same and are safe to block? If so, add a content rule to block the messages.
- Check if the domain is legitimate or spam, and unsubscribe if it is not a spam domain and the privacy policy is clear.
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