FireFox Monitor

Mozilla, the maker of FireFox, has developed a security site that can inform visitors if an email address was subject to a known data breach.

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E-mail and Distraction

Cal Newport muses on the harm e-mail does to creative work .

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Labor Organizing Using Corporate Email

Emily of Bloomberg News interviews Josh Eidelson, who reports that Google is lobbying to deny employees the right to organize a union using corporate email.

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E-mail Can Form a More Secure Social Network Than Facebook

Mike Elgin suggests that e-mail is the foundation for a secure social network.

As an active member of e-mail Listervs, I have to agree.

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Hotmail History

Sean Gallagher reviews the technology and history of Microsoft's Hotmail , which has now been replaced by Outlook.com.

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Receive an Answer

Zack Slayback offers a tip on receiving a response email from industry leaders.

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Email Ettiquette

Aja Frost suggests three words which may be perceived as rude .

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Vacation and E-mail

Patrick McCarthy explains how he went four weeks without e-mail while on a vacation.

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Apple iOS amd Missing E-mail

Evan Schuman reports that his iphone sometimes deletes a few extra e-mail messages when he deletes a large quantity of emails.

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E-Mail's Founder Dies

Bob Brown reports that Ray Tomlinson , the programmer who developed the e-mail protocol, died at 74.

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Communicating Written Communication Preference

George Williams offers a tip on communicating written communication preferences to college students. Williams actually prefers the immediacy of Skype chat to decyphering the message of an e-mail, and tells that to his students upfront.

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Meeting Agendas With Attached Documents

Lisa Nelson suggests that an email with a meeting agenda should include attachments with any presentation handouts.

Providing the deliverables upfront seems to be an excellent tip for corporate meetings. To do so at a trade show concurrent session may cause people to feel their information needs are met, potentially reducing attendance to your very expensive presentation.

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Double Opt-In

Mark Gibbs rants about inadvertant spam, and suggests that double opt-in practices by corporate marketers could be improved. He suggests practices which any business using e-mail marketing should embrace.

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E-mail Subject Lines That Get Attention

Janelle Estes, working for Neilsen-Norman Group, shares tips for e-mail subject lines which get attention. The big tip is to succinctly convey your message in the first forty characters.

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