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It's easy to be overwhelmed by e-mail.  In his Harvard Business Review article, "Death by Information Overload" (September 2009; hbr.org), Paul Hemp offers these tips for reducing e-mail overload...

• To avoid constant distractions, turn off automatic notification of incoming e-mail.  Then establish specific times during the day when you check and take action on messages.
• Don't waste time sorting messages into folders; inbox searches make that unnecessary.
• If you won't be able to respond to an e-mail for several days, acknowledge receipt and tell the sender when you're likely to get to it.
• Make messages you send easy to digest by writing a clear subject line and starting the body with the key point.
• Before you choose "reply to all," stop and consider the e-mail burden that your choice places on each recipient.

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