{"id":156,"date":"2005-08-13T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/using-e-mail-properly.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-16T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:10:00","slug":"using-e-mail-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/using-e-mail-properly.htm","title":{"rendered":"Using e-mail properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112396352343915987--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/\">Craig Murphy<\/a> has a whole load of interesting advice filed under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?cat=5\">project management<\/a>, and one which caught my eye tonight was his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=71\">using e-mail properly<\/a>.  Speaking as someone who spent two hours yesterday filing the last month&#8217;s worth of business e-mail (after spending too much of his holiday time generally getting his files which were spread across several PCs and external hard disks into some kind of order), I think I might try to take some of this on board in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/new-job-at-fujitsu-services-no-longer.htm\">my new job<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Murphy has a whole load of interesting advice filed under project management, and one which caught my eye tonight was his post on using e-mail properly. 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