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I have championed email efficiency for years and previously wrote Email Productivity in Three Easy Steps on this subject. Improving your business communication skills, including how you compose email, adds depth to your efficiency and effectiveness on the job.

David Silverman presents a concise, 10 point checklist in How to Revise an Email So People Will Read It.  I strongly urge you to read his article and improve the email you write. In particular, I appreciated his focus on communicating facts and pruning everything else.

What other techniques do you use for improving your writing?

Email can be an enormous time sink. Here are three steps I took to remove unnecessary email from my in-box and recover previously wasted time.

I did it and you can too! Learn to touch type quickly at no cost with this secret, easy method that you can use right in your own home or even at work.

Did you know you can remap the keys on your computer keyboard? Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Apple based computers all provide you the ability to remap your keyboard. Here's how I tripled the value of my Caps Lock key by swapping it with my ESC key.