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Two iPhone “Features” Continue to Annoy me
in RandomAll alerts – incoming text messages, app push notifications, low-battery – are modal dialogs. If I receive an alert while I’m on a call, I have to dismiss it before I can access the phone controls, including ending the call. I’m sure this has led to a couple situations where the caller has heard snippets […] Continue Reading
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How To Fix: The Newspaper Industry
I found this post sitting in my drafts folder from earlier this year. Seeing as I haven’t updated the blog in awhile, I thought I’d finish off some of the sentences and hit the ‘publish’ button. The newspaper industry is facing the perfect storm of declining readership, declining print ad sales, lackluster online ad revenues, […] Continue Reading
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People Suck at Email VII, Reply-All
If your reply does not pertain to everyone in the to and cc fields, don’t reply-all. Continue Reading
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People Suck At Email VI, Topic Threads
This post is someone related to the part v in the series, subject lines. The subject of the email should reflect the topic of the body. When replying to an email thread, you should only reply with content relevant to the main topic. Do not ask an unrelated question, or start writing about what you […] Continue Reading
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People Suck At Email V, Subject Lines
Subject lines are hard. Your subject line can fail if it is: Not descriptive enough. Tell me what the email is about, I need to know whether to read it, file it or delete it without reading the body. Too long. I need to be able to read the subject on my mobile device and […] Continue Reading