As soon as I finish typing this post, I am heading out to vote in Houston’s run-off primary for District Attorney of Harris County. Our recently resigned D.A., Chuck Rosenthal, was ousted, or outed, when his past years of emails were subpoenaed by defense attorneys in preparation for a trial.
Somehow the judge who granted [...]

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Can you imagine a day without email? Suppose the whole company banned managing email once a week on Fridays?
For most people, the first response is an immediate objection. In my time management seminars, even bringing up the idea of setting blocks of time each day for processing email vs. letting it interrupt you all day [...]

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A new program that has come to my attention is a solution for those struggling with email management. Speedfiler for Outlook provides an easy method to file both incoming and outgoing messages, if you are an Outlook user.
What I currently observe happening in my time management training seminars and when working with individual clients is [...]

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You see it everywhere, that constant checking of email. In the office, email is often allowed to intrude at any time throughout the day and is given priority over the current task. Outside the office space, those PDAs, like the Blackberry and Treo, pop up at meetings, lunches, soccer games, and even the dinner table. [...]

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Everyone struggles with the issue of spam. Fortunately spam filters have improved greatly, helping to limit the volume in individual email inboxes. In my own case, spam messages are blocked at two levels, one where the server keeps it from even accessing my email program and the other where Outlook sends it to [...]

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