9 Rules for Emailing According to Google Exec Eric Schmidt

Here are a few rules for emailing as suggested by Eric Schmidt:Details on each rule can be found on this article.

1. Respond quickly.
2. When writing an email, every word matters, and useless prose doesn’t. Be crisp in your delivery.
3. Clean out your inbox constantly.
4. Handle email in LIFO order (Last In First Out). Sometimes the older stuff gets taken care of by someone else.
5. Remember, you’re a router.
6. When you use the bcc (blind copy) feature, ask yourself why.
7. Don’t yell.
8. Make it easy to follow up on requests.
9. Help your future self search for stuff. If you get something you think you may want to recall later, forward it to yourself along with a few keywords that describe its content.

Details on each rule can be found on this article.