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TomWhore is the most important person here on FoRK.
your i's and cross your t's.
like this. in yr e-mail, anyway. short, sloppy & to the poitn. got that?
of management at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.
everybody should listen to him. Or, he drove up in an expensive Porsche."
Then, he said, "I began looking at e-mail."
He expected more of the same: The higher the rank, the more formal the e-mail.
He found exactly the opposite.
it was otfen terse, typo-ridden and all in lower-case.
and spelling, he said. "They don't need to."
and everyone was wearing a tie but one person. Guess who that one person was?"
At this point, if you're a peon, you might be feeling a tad resentful.
you can stop spell-checking your e-mail.
do that for me.' "
article, which urged perfect spelling and grammar in e-mail.
guess those guys never talked to owens.
Of course, context is everything.
them to Germany for two weeks."
e-mail, at some point it's crucial to talk to the other person.
a real-time telephone conversation is the next-best thing."
over other forms of communication."
person. and ... gd luck!