To get ahead in your career, you need a strong network. And part of that means learning how to email people for their time and connections. One of the simple yet critical requests you’ll encounter in ...

Business email has all but replaced hard-copy correspondence, but that doesn't mean this quicker approach to communication should be any less professional than its traditional counterpart. Business ...

The email universe is a strange little world, and proper email etiquette is even more confusing sometimes. Most of the stuff that you are writing to another person is probably not the way you would ...

(MoneyWatch) It might not seem that way, but email has its own complex rules of etiquette, which you may violate -- intentionally or otherwise -- at your own peril. I've written about many of these ...

Saying "No Problem" Instead of "You're Welcome" While saying "no problem," "no big deal," or "no worries" isn't technically ...

The Internet revolution has had the unintended effect of decreasing the use of oral communication and increasing the importance of text — particularly e-mails — as the primary means of business ...

The litigator's secret weapon: good manners. William Hanson, the etiquette columnist for the Daily Mail, provides fun and snarky advice on how to be polite. Last week, he had a column on email ...

During the last 10 years, the widespread use of e-mail has literally transformed business communication, so much that the business letter has reached near extinction. Even contractors who clung dearly ...

The "e" in e-mail might as well stand for "essential." Most of us have become hopelessly dependent on the immediacy of communicating with e-mail. Whether it's at a cafe or on a construction site, it's ...

Humans once communicated with smoke signals or by sending a message via carrier pigeon or horse. Overseas messages took months to reach their recipients by ship. Today, technology enables its users to ...

Despite the availability of video and text messaging, e-mail remains the most common form of one-to-one, Internet-based communication in business settings. You might think it's old hat by now. E-mail ...