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Reducing Email Volume

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Yesterday Carol Roth featured Life Contained email expertise in her piece Minimizing Unneccessary Email Responses. One of the fresh ideas included in the piece was the concept of including something like this in an email signature:

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In an effort to save our most precious resource, time, I use the following acronyms. Please consider adopting them and sharing them with your friends and colleagues:

NRN (No Response Needed)
ORI (Only Respond if Issue)
NWT (Noted With Thanks)
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Another way to approach it is to program NRN and the like into AutoText so only a few keystrokes will deliver the full statement on an on-demand basis.

Thanks for the mention, Carol!