{ 2006 Oct 23 }

Departmental e-mail etiquette and other failures

Good idea: Write a weblog to keep folks in and around your University department informed of your work activities.

Bad idea: Regularly send an e-mail to everybody in the department, reminding them of updates to your weblog. Do not allow folks to opt out of the e-mail. Do not have a clue.

I can understand — in fact, would encourage — a one-time message announcing the existence of the blog, a description of why you want to read it, and links to the site and feed.

Here’s the most recent e-mail in its entirety:

From: jillha@umich.edu
Subject: Education and Outreach weekly report
Date: October 23, 2006 8:40:31 AM GMT-04:00

Hello, you can view the latest education and outreach report for SI and CoE at

http://sisphere.blogspot.com/

best, Jill

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Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 at 5:31 pm.

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  1. Noor | 23-Oct-06 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

    That totally defeats the purpose of a blog. Has anyone notified this person that RSS takes care of that?

    I don’t get the purpose of that blog. I always get the feeling that I shouldn’t be reading it. It’s like someone’s progress reports to their manager. It’s not really written for mass consumption.

  2. Andrea | 30-Oct-06 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

    I’m totally with you both, particularly on the annoying email…

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