The Art of Writing Short Emails

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[Editor's note: While we're on a break this week, the Monitor newsletter will contain a mix of great IT and tech articles from around the web, but there'll be no news updates or SaaS updates.] What You Need To Know Today The Art of Writing Short Emails Medium | Do you want to know how you can save an hour a day or more dealing with your email inbox? It’s pretty simple: Write short emails. Not just shorter, but short — a few sentences at max. Save time — and face — with these techniques. IT Mission, Vision, and Values Statements: Foundations for Success CIO | Compelling vision, mission, and value statements provide brief but powerful descriptions of an enterprise’s purpose and method of operating. ICYMI: If You’re Not Phishing Your Employees, You Should Be: Here’s How BetterCloud Monitor | Phishing is a dangerous ever-growing threat to your organization. Putting technology in place can help, but testing your employee base is best. Here's how. Tips & Tricks for the Digital Workplace How to Access Gmail with Outlook for Mac Lifewire | Outlook for Mac can talk to Gmail, letting you access the account with support for most of what Gmail offers. What’s the Mention Column for in Microsoft Outlook? How-To Geek | “Mentions” are something you’ll be familiar with if you use communication tools like Slack or Confluence, or social media apps like Twitter or Instagram. You type the “@” symbol and then someone’s name, and they get a message saying you’ve mentioned them in a message/post/article. Mentions have also turned up in the latest versions of Outlook. Here's what they do. IT Leadership & Strategy Why Burnout Happens in Information Security CSO | "Burnout happens a lot in the information security field because we put the professionals responsible for it in positions where they are set up to fail. To fix this, we need to stop treating security as an option or hindrance, and let go of the 'hero culture' approach that is lionized by business and tech culture," writes Mitchell Parker. Long Reads Top Web Browsers 2018: Chrome Edges Toward Supermajority Share Computerworld | By the end of the year, Google's Chrome could be the go-to browser for two-thirds of all web surfers. Vanish Vanish off the internet. Control your social media presence. 330 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001 Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward | View on the Web