Eike Schmidt, the director of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, has made rules for staff e-mail (Artnet). Among the rules: No bold, no multiple exclamation points, no ?! combinations, no sentences in all caps. Ellipses? Only sparingly.
When Uffizi staff need to e-mail an academic, they might want to consult How to e-mail a professor. Almost eighteen years old, and still going strong.
Monday, December 26, 2022
Uffizi e-mail etiquette
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
"Museum director Eike Schmidt...[said], “Good writing helps everyone to think in the right way.” 🙄
ReplyDeleteI was not surprised to read that he is . . . GERMAN!!!
(Not that your email tips aren't excellent, Michael. But, "think the right way"?)
I think he might be ripping on Confucius there, about the necessity of right language. (“Necessity of”? Is that right?)
ReplyDeleteOof — riffing! The autocorrect got me.
ReplyDelete