| Making the Most of Email
Table of Contents: Mastering your email software
| Strategies for using email
Mastering your email software
Recommended Email Software
Programs we recommend, and links to the webs having the right email software is essential to using email effectively. Here are the email sites where you can get them.
Eudora 5 Tutorials
A great series of illustrated tutorials on using Eudora 5, straight from Eudora's developers. Includes tutorials for both the Windows and Mac versions of Eudora.
Outlook Express Basics
- for Windows
Some tips on using Outlook Express for Windows, the email client built into Windows 98 and bundled with Internet Explorer 4.0 & 5.0.
Outlook Express Basics - for the Macintosh
Tips for using Outlook Express 4.0 for the Macintosh, a powerful email program included with Internet Explorer 4.0.
Mail Merges to Email Using Outlook
Instruction for creating personalized form letter emails in Outlook 2000.
Sending and Receiving Email Attachments
Email attachments are a powerful but often-confusing aspect of email. Here's how to work effectively with email attachments.
Managing Your Email with Outlook Rules
Is your Inbox clutter driving you nuts? Are listservs getting in the way? This article will help you to use rules or filters to help you manage your email.
Fixing Poorly-Formatted Email
Finding that your emails have ragged line breaks and junk characters? This article describes how to fix these problems, and prevent them from occurring.
Encrypting your Email with PGP
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) brings secure, routine email encryption within reach of the average user.
Strategies for using email
Gathering Email Addresses from Your Members
Gathering the email addresses of your members is one of the most important steps you can take to begin using electronic communications more effectively in your organization.
Starting an Email List with Heath Care Reform
Health Care Reform hosts email lists for the WWW health care reform community. This article contains all the information you need to set up an email list for your organization.
Guidelines for Participating in Email Lists
A short article on email list etiquette. Great for new email list owners and participants.
Sending Effective Email
10 tips to help you send more effective email. A great article if you're new to email.
Avoiding the Dark Side of Email
by Jim Britell
Email is a powerful tool with unique advantages over speech and other forms of writing, but can cause problems not found in those other forms of communication. This in-depth article includes many hints and suggestions for email's predictable yet avoidable problems including "flaming," and advice on getting others to read and respond to your messages. Great for intermediate email users.
Providing Individual Email Accounts to Everyone in Your Organization
Discusses ways to provide each of your staff members with their own email account--affordably and effectively.
Ten Tips for Writing Effective Action Alerts
How to write online action alerts that get read and get results.
Designing Effective Action Alerts for the Internet
A longer, more detailed article by Phil Agre, publisher of Red Rock Eater. Very detailed and thoughtful.
Contacting Your Elected Officials
How to get in touch with your elected representatives electronically.
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