Email 101

Email is without a doubt one of the easiest ways to send a message in today's world. Whether it's someone in your office or your friend in India, you can send your thoughts in a nano second. When I was putting together this blog and going from Jing to Outlook to Screencast to Gmail, I was thinking about my passwords and how I have so many to keep track of. To get into your email account you must set up a password to protect yourself. I found that you probably don't want to use these, from the interestingfacts website: "Here are the 10 most common passwords: 1. password 2. 1233 or 123456 3. Qwerty 4. abc123 5. Iloveyou 6. Letmein 7. Monkey 8. trustno1 9. Your first name 10. Your username". From the factsarena blogspot, I also found these User Facts: * "The average business user receives 25 email messages per day; increasing 10% per year * The average business user spends 2.6 hours per day reading and responding to email * 38% of employees have sent an e-mail without the required attachment * 34.1% of users open an e-mail by 5 pm * It takes 77 minutes a week for an employee to manage their mailbox, such as cleaning out old messages and filing old messages or attachments * It takes 27 minutes for a user to delete or archive enough messages in order to be able to use the e-mail system again after hitting a “quota limit” * It takes 8.2 minutes for a user to find an email that is older than two weeks". I put together a short tutorial on my business email account from Microsoft Outlook. We found this to be the most user friendly and best for our employees. You can discover many interesting short-cuts and tips the more you use your account. What about you? How much time do you spend??? References: Downloaded from the Internet, April 7, 2012: http://www.interestingemails.com/category/interesting-facts/ Downloaded from the Internet April 7, 2012: http://factsarena.blogspot.com/2010/01/interesting-email-facts.html