Send Less E-Mail; Get More Done

“Most people could cut their email output by ten percent or so and maintain or even increase their productivity,” writes Art Carden. Messages to cut: Questions you could answer for yourself. See what Google has to say before you send an e-mail that makes you look silly and wastes time

San Francisco Chronicle Article

Andrew Ross, San Francisco Chronicle reporter, likes our honesty and willingness to own our own writing mistakes.  He wrote… We received the following “retraction” from Write It Well, an Oakland company that “improves business communications skills.”    One of your colleagues alerted us to the fact that there are three typos in the press release we sent you earlier

Lifehack: The Value of Writing Well

Dustin Wax has a lovely piece on Lifehack about writing. Writing deserves practice, he says. “The skills that make us better writers make us better explainers, better persuaders, and better thinkers,” he writes

Get Rid of Unproductive Writing Rules

Good grammar rules make our jobs easier: they help us communicate clearly and professionally. But there are many mistaken grammar notions that do nothing but get in the way and make us feel insecure about our writing. Philip Corbett, the deputy news editor at The New York Times, points out some of these grammar hobgoblins this week in After Deadline

Twitter Etiquette

Social media has captured everyone’s attention these days, especially businesses who want to capitalize on personal networking. In a recent article on The Morning News, Margaret Mason lists fourteen ways to use Twitter politely. She divides Twitter users into two types: those who broadcast, blog-style, and those who use the service to chat with each other