Email Security Protocols

David Strom explains three email protocols for keeping an enterprise email server secure: DMARC, SPF, and DKIM .

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Responding to E-mail

Richard Moy suggests how to set your email's auto-responder when taking a one day vacation.

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Marketers, Avoid Resending Emails

Scott Heimes suggests that sending copies of former emaisls as reminders can be bad for marketing because users are likely to unsubscribe to your list, and ISPs may see the duplicate emails as spam.

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Personal Email

Jonathan Rees suggests that academic faculty should maintain (and use) an email account separate from their University. A university can monitor or close a faculty member's email account at any time, so a private account for private email is a wise investment of time.

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Using Email

Melanie Pinola suggested ways to use email .

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E-mail Security

Tom Henderson notes the volume of malware received in his e-mail inbox , and offers some solutions the government to employ to make the Internet safer for users.

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Email That Gets Read

Anna Codrea-Rado suggests better email practices .

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Email Signature Design

Rex Weston shares tips on email signature design .

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Email Productivity Tools

Brian Casel shares about a competitor to Boomerang called RightInBox. This product also tracks when sent email was opened.

Brian talks about four other productivity tools in a YouTube Video:

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Baydin Software Offers Email Tools

Heather Whitney reports about using Boomerang to schedule email transmissions. She notes that Boomerang, a product of Baydin Software, allows reminders to be emailed even when the sender is far from any Internet connectivity.

I notice that Baydin Software also has an email clearing tool called The Email Game. Baydin introduces a timer which is designed to make the Gmail or Outlook user attempt to "beat the clock" in taking action on email.

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Students Without Borders

"Students Without Borders" explains how many modern college students do not have a sense of social boundaries or responsibility. Professor Emily Toth notes that she regularly receives emails from students who have not read assignments, or who want their responsibilities simplified. In my opinion, students need to realize that a certain degree of skill must be developed (such as learning to read a syllabus) in order to merit graduation from a university.

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Gmail Compose

Natalie Houston has penned an article on using Gmail's compose feature .

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Email Is Not Used By Current High School Students

Educator Carl Hooker reports that the majority of his communication is via email, but that most tech-savvy students do not normally check their email. Thus he penned an article titled, "Why Email Should Die."

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Face to Face

Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey note that there are occasions where face time is more important than Facebook presence.

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Communication Appropriate to the User

Hype over social media and new tablet technologies is rebuffed in "Tools, Not Trends," a blog post by academic librarian Wayne Bivens-Tatum. He cites the "National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2011," which indicates that 99% of students are using email for communication.

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