Filed under: Business, Features, E-mail, Office, Productivity
This day we’d like to introduce the first in a new weekly series of posts at Download Squad called Emailers Anonymous, a series for anyone that is addicted to email as part of their daily life. We’re going to explore email from all angles - everything from email clients to email etiquette, email productivity to email formatting. And anything else you have questions about.
Today’s post will focus on email etiquette, and how to be a good email neighbor.
It’s simple to feel frustrated with friends and co-workers when they make basic email mistakes like sending messages with no subject text, or referencing an attachment but not actually including one. But are we absolutely innocent of making email offenses ourselves? Have a look at the ones listed below; maybe you could be a better email neighbor.
Links without context
This is maybe one of the most common, and most egregious faux pas that can be committed on the internet. It happens on instant messaging programs and frighteningly often on Twitter, but it also happens very often in email. Consider the last time you encountered a website you really wanted a friend to see. When you emailed it to them, did you give any descriptive text so that they had a clue as to what they were about to see when clicking on your link, or did you simply give the a link and anticipate them to blindly follow it? This is tantamount to saying “close your eyes and open your mouth” - no thanks! If you really want people to follow your links, take a moment to explain what they’re about to see - a sentence or two is enough.
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