Clean Out Your Inbox Week

In early December I wrote "Getting Control Of Your Email - Break The Addiction" and I mentioned Marsha Egan's list of tell-tale signs to see if you are addicted to email and her book, "12 Steps to Curing Your Email E-Ddiction".  Egan's company is focused on working with individuals and companies to make the most of email and to regain lost productivity.

As part of this, Egan has proclaimed January 28 - February 1 as Clean Out Your Inbox Week.  As she states in her press release announcing this:

Every January, we set personal goals and attempt to make a fresh start and begin the New Year with our best foot forward in both our personal and professional lives. In the spirit of this fresh start, email productivity expert Marsha Egan is challenging businesses everywhere to take control of their email overwhelm by participating in “Clean Out Your Inbox Week.” 

Whether you use Egan's kit (commercial product) or just try to do it yourself the idea of cleaning out your inbox certainly sounds like a good way to start the year.

If this topic was of interest, you might also like these:

• Break the BlackBerry and Laptop Addiction
• Making Your Email More Effective; A Lesson From Lincoln
• 99 Email Security, Netiquette and Productivity Tips
• Or the posts in the "PCs & Email" category

"Inbox" photo by Mike Schaffner (looks like I've got some cleanup work to do)