Working at Microsoft is great but it isn't all sunshine lollypops and rainbows.
Getting ~ 400 emails per day direct to my inbox, with the majority requiring action takes its toll.
For the first few months I was at Microsoft I would kill myself every night trying to get through the day's emails when that wasn't required.
I'm not an email slacker, every email I get I action (and no - that doesn't mean delete).
When I triage my email I choose if I do it today, tomorrow, next week.
I then do today's activities and that all I need to do.
If I couldn't manage email I wouldn't be able to do my job - sad but true.
Ian Palangio , Johann Kruse (other email-warriors from Microsoft Australia) and I developed Pay it Forward Email Management.
Pay it forward because once you implement it, you must pay it forward by helping others implement this.
Ian Palangio documented the process and the online package is available in his SkyDrive (if you don't have OneNote you can download a free trial)
OneNote was used as this is a multi-dimensional document and was developed collaboratively within Microsoft.
PingBack from http://clanad.musicnewsandviews.com/2008/01/04/drowning-in-email-ive-got-the-solution-for-you-pay-it-forward/
Does this require OneNote 2007? Is there a version that works with 2003?
Losing to Information Overload? Thinking about declaring email bankruptcy? Ian Palangio, Business Productivity
the file wont open in one note 2007 either
comes up with a message
OneNote cannot open the requested package file. The file may be corrupted or may contain no OneNote sections.
I enjoy Angus Logan's blog , in particular, a recent post on what to do when you're drowning in email
From frank ben
Abidjan
Ivory coast
My Dear Please Permit me to inform you of my mind, Because I have make up my mind to contact you through this media after going through your profile I decided to contact you for assisting me as a foreign business relation to my late father.
My Name is Frank Ben, I was born to the family of Mr. Ben .tand my father Name is Thompson he was a very wealthy gold and cocoa merchant who based in ACCRA and ABIDJAN respectively, and my mother's name is Sheila. And I am there only child. well when I was a kid I went to a private schools and things was going on well for me and my parents till when I was in high school when my mother died on the 21ST October 2000 , My father took me so special because I am motherless. And he showers all his love on me.
My father got dead recently. but before the death of my father on the 12th December 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of ten million United State Dollars. ($10, 000 000 00) in one bank here in Abidjan the capital city of my country Cote d’Ivoire for investment purposes.
He also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that I should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where I would investment this money if it happens that i could not see him anymore.
Please, I am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.
1) To assist me and stand as my father's foreign business relation to get this money transferred to you for investment purposes to your country.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund, since I am too small to handle such amount.
3) To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.
I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort after the successful transferring of this money into any of your nominated account.
I am expecting to hear from you immediately after you got this mail and please forward to me your personal information’s at the same time like your Telfax number and your addres,as soon as you reply through my private Email I will send to you the deposit certificate which my late father use to deposit the money and also give to you the bank contact where the money is deposited for you to contact them after that you confirm to me your willingness and to confirm to me that you are not going to betrayed me at last when my money will be transfer in to your account please if you know that you are trustful then respond so that we can do this together as I am only 22 years and will like to explain to you that you are going to take care of this money and the investment until I finish my education which is the most important thing to me now.
God bless you.
Frank Ben
Well, for my first blog post I'd better cover PIFEM - which is an email management system that Angus
Angus Kidman covered @ LifeHacker and Sarah Perez @ Channel10 – this will change your life. So much that