Things to consider when it comes to forwarding e-mails to business accounts on business time: Refrain from forwarding non-business related e-mails on business time using your business e-mail address. Doing so reflects a lack of professionalism and consideration for your employer's resources and others time. Same applies to using your … [Read more...]
What About Forwarding Jokes Using Your Business E-mail?
February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There are exceptions to every rule however, this would be one of the rules I suggest you not break. Refrain from forwarding jokes or non-business related e-mails on company time while using your business e-mail address and resources. It is important to show an understanding and respect for the time of those you communicate with by not … [Read more...]
Business E-mail Forwarding Reflects on You!
December 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
With every e-mail that I send, I know that it could be forwarded to others without my knowledge. Even though you should never forward an e-mail sent to you to a third party without the original Sender's permission, people still do it all the time. What you forward and how, speaks volumes about you as a person. Here are some things you don't … [Read more...]
How to Nicely Ask to Stop Forwarding to Your Business E-mail
September 8, 2009 By 2 Comments
This is one of the top questions I get asked: "How do I nicely ask someone not to keep forwarding me jokes and chain mails to my business e-mail address?" I think it is telling that folks ask me how to ask "nicely." I guess that shows their frustration with folks who do not understand that sending feel good "send to all your friends" type … [Read more...]
5 Rules for Forwarding E-mails
July 17, 2009 By 3 Comments
Forwarding of emails is one of the topics I get contacted about the most. And, one which also causes hurt feelings and misunderstandings more than any other topic. Daily, emails flow in from onliners asking about a "nice way" of telling someone they care about, relative, friend or associate to not forward attachments, chain emails, religious and … [Read more...]
Rude or Uniformed?
February 18, 2009 By 4 Comments
A Site Visitor Writes: I forwarded a certain photograph to a group of people I work with inside and outside my firm. One of the people on the e-mail list sent back to the whole list (whom she did not know) that the photo was a fake. She looked it up onwww.snopes.com. She also stated that "she always checked on the accuracy of things before she … [Read more...]
Forwarding Business E-mails
July 7, 2008 By 3 Comments
Several times each week I get asked for guidance when it comes to forwarding emails written by others while on business time. "Because it is a business e-mail does that mean they no longer own it?" Because an e-mail is written on business time, does not negate copyright and common courtesy. Is one to copy the original sender and/or ask if it … [Read more...]
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