Between email, Slack and social media, you may need three devices to handle all the interruptions.
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Interruptions are inevitable – but how they happen matters.
On paper, lives were lived, trysts arranged, manifestos mailed and wars waged.
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Will there ever be an electronic equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ or Émile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse!’?
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Top tips to improve your email use based on academic research into email best practice, productivity and stress.
Old technology, but not obsolete.
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It’s 2019. And yet faxing is still often more secure, easier to use and better suited to existing work habits than computer-based messaging.
Scammers impersonating the Australian Taxation Office have fleeced Australians of more than $830,000.
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As curious social animals, humans are more trusting of people than we should be – especially when we’re dealing with people over the phone, email or via SMS, in the absence of body language.
These scammers don’t exploit technological vulnerabilities – they exploit human ones.
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A number of factors – from our eagerness to place trust in people to our overconfidence in our own intelligence – make us easy prey.
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To gain mastery over our inboxes we have to deal with the root causes and not just the symptoms that frequently flare up.
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How data is changing the shape of our personal ‘bubble’ – in pictures.
Because you’ve never seen it before, right?
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Sarcasm thrives in ambiguous situations, which makes it especially ripe for misinterpretation.
How should you communicate?
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From asking a partner to pick up dinner on the way home to checking in on a neighbor with health problems, we frequently face the question, ‘What’s the best way to communicate?’
Digital documents are not nearly as easy to retrieve.
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What happens to your Facebook account, your iTunes purchases and your email messages when you die?
Elon Musk, head of Telsa, is an advocate for flat organisational structures.
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A flat management structure can reduce costs and boost efficiency but may be hard for larger firms to implement.
Email overload is stressing us out.
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The things we think about email, rightly or wrongly, and what light scientific research has to shine on them.
Who should be allowed inside?
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Scholars dig in to the debate on whether police should be able to defeat or circumvent encryption systems.
How safe is it to use an iPhone?
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Some of the iPhone’s innovations have made users less secure.
For safety, look to text-only messaging.
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It’s impossible to be certain of safety while using Gmail, Yahoo mail and other web-based email systems. The best solution is a radical one: It’s time to return to plain, text-only email.
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Do you reply to emails first thing in the morning and last thing at night? Your company should be insisting that you don’t.
Experts over time continue to disagree on what is the best email etiquette.
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As a part of human interaction, emails are as nuanced and complex as the social world we find them, and it is unlikely that we can rely on a checklist of quick-fix rules.
Facebook has received a lot of scrutiny since the presidential election.
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Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
Not this kind of spearfishing – the kind that involves a computer.
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Despite years of public information efforts, even simple cyberattacks still succeed. Here are five steps to avoiding having your emails appear on WikiLeaks.