Unanswered Email: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It
By Jennifer Henderson I was complaining to Carole the other day about a woman who didn’t respond to my email. The woman had initially agreed to help me out with an interview I had wanted to conduct. After sending her two emails and getting no response, I gave up. I wasn’t sure whether the unanswered email meant that she didn’t want to work with me, that she was too busy to respond, or that the email went to her spam folder. In any case, Carole and I decided that unanswered emails seem to be on the rise. When email first came out, it didn’t have to compete with other social media tools. But, with the abundance of information we now receive from social media, we may have become so busy…