When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? What is the crucial—and most often overlooked—line in an email? What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell? Enter Send. Whether you email just a little or never stop, use a desktop or a handheld, here, at last, is an authoritative and delightful book that shows how to write the perfect email—at work, at school, or anywhere. Send also points out the numerous (but not always obvious) times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water (or even jail!). The secret is, of course, to think before you click. Send is nothing short of a survival guide for the digital age—wise, brimming with good humor, and filled with helpful lessons from the authors’ own email experiences (and mistakes). In short: absolutely e-ssential.

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home

Computers & Technology

SCHWALBE, WILL

Shipley, David

Software

KNOPF

Send—the classic guide to email for office and home and an instant success upon its original publication—has become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, and often overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth of entertaining examples, Send reveals the hidden minefields and pitfalls of email. It provides clear rules for handling all of today’s thorniest email issues, from salutations and subject lines to bcc’s and emoticons. It explains when you absolutely shouldn’t send an email and what to do when you’ve sent (in anger or in error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell. And it offers invaluable strategies to help you both better manage the ever-increasing number of emails you receive and improve the ones you send. In this revised edition, David Shipley and Will Schwalbe have added fresh tales from the digital realm and a new afterword—“How to Keep Email from Taking Over Your Life,” which includes sage advice on handheld etiquette. Send is now more essential than ever, a wise and witty book that every businessperson and professional should read and read again.

Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better, Revised Edition

Send—the classic guide to email for office and home—has become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, and at times overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth of useful and entertaining examples, Send dissects all the major minefields and pitfalls of email. It provides clear rules for constructing effective emails, for handheld etiquette, for handling the “emotional email,” and for navigating all of today’s hot-button issues. It offers essential strategies to help you both better manage the ever-increasing number of emails you receive and improve the ones you send. Send is now more than ever the essential book about email for businesspeople and professionals everywhere.

SEND: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Vintage

• When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? • What is the crucial–and most often overlooked–line in an email? • What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell? Enter Send. Whether you email just a little or never stop, here, at last, is an authoritative and delightful audiobook that shows how to write the perfect email anywhere. Send also points out the numerous (but not always obvious) times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water (or even jail!). The secret is, of course, to think before you click. Send is nothing short of a survival guide for the digital age–wise, brimming with good humor, and filled with helpful lessons from the authors’ own email experiences (and mistakes). In short: absolutely e-ssential.

Skills

Random House Audio |

Ever wondered why we don't talk anymore? Or why you never seem to be able to get anyhting done at work? And why your boss is driving you mad? Answer: Email
In a short period of time, email has taken over our lives. But it is such a new form of communication. Is it any wonder that we haven't figured out how to use it yet?
Send is a book so utterly necessary, it is almost impossible to imagine having survived without it. It explains the cultural implications of email and offers top tips on how to make it work FOR you, rather than AGAINST you. It might even prevent you from sending the email that could land you in jail.

Send: The How, Why, When - and When Not - of Email

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Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home

Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better, Revised Edition

SEND: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home

Send: The How, Why, When - and When Not - of Email