E-mail Subject Lines and Blogs

E-mail Subject Lines and Blogs

In 2001 I read this report on webword , looking back, I think e-mail subject lines have become more significant than they were earlier. More so in the case of blogging. Hee's why:

• Most blogging applications like Blogger, Nucleus use your e-mail subject as the title of a post, when you're blogging through e-mail. So you need to pay attention to your subject line, else, your post would look clumsy

Excerpts from the Research

• Email subject lines should be short. Our research indicates that the shorter the subject line the better it is.
• Email responses (messages prefixed by RE:) are important to people.
• Forwarded email messages (prefixed by FW: and FWD:) are not as critical or important to people in relation to other messages.
• The use of ALL CAPS only marginally improves usability. It seems to be a non-factor compared to the other factors.
• Position of an email in a list of other emails is not relevant. More on webword
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