Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I’m Simon Calder from SimonSezIT.com and host of the Simon Sez IT Tech Show at www.SimonSezIT.com/tips

During this week’s edition of the TPN Weekly, we’re going to start the New Year by providing practical tips for overcoming email overload. We’ve reached a tipping point where the deluge of email is making us less productive instead of more productive. While still a great communication tool, we need to get things under control. I’ll provide 10 practical tips to help you start the New Year on solid footing.

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Overcoming Email Overload

• Focus on CPT – critical productivity time
• Turn new email notifications off
• Use rules to organize your email
• Resort to “traditional” methods of communication
• Use newer methods of communication
• Be less formal
• Read the email, then reply
• Use search tools
• Don’t be emotional
• Set aside time each day or 1 day each week to organize your email

I hope you enjoyed the show. Be sure to stop by SimonSezIT.com/tips for all of our previous shows, SimonSezIT.com for software video training tutorials, and my other tech blog, HotButteredIT.com.

Wishing you a successful and prosperous 2010!

Warmly,
Simon