THIS WEEK'S POWERTIP
How to cc someone when assigning tasks
By David Gewirtz
This week's PowerTip is a holiday quicky and comes as a question from a reader. Teri Kamykowski of Harvest Investments asks:
Greetings! Do you know if there is a way to cc someone when creating and assigning a task? Any thoughts/assistance is greatly appreciated!
This is easy and I'll keep it short and sweet so you can go off and snag the dark meat at Turkey Day. Unless you're in my house. In that case, keep your hands off the dark meat. That's mine!
Teri, the secret is that you don't use the cc field. You can do a New Task and under the Actions menu, select Assign Task.
There's a To field. Just separate the names of the people you want to get the task by commas or semi-colons.
Assuming your recipients want to do anything but sit around and burp after the big meal, they'll accept the task and you've done your delegating for the week.
For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and can be reached via email at david@zatz.com.
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