What is 'e-mail'?

What is 'e-mail'?

Tim Burress (E-mail Etiquette and Organization Specialist) gives expert video advice on: What are the advantages of business e-mail?; What are the disadvantages of business e-mail? and more...

E-mail is electronic mail, a form of electronic communication. People use it for personal communication between family members on different sides of the coast, for business communication, or for a variety of reasons and purposes. But it's really for communicating in a digital format, communicating electronically. What used to be the process of typewriter, typing a letter out, sending it and putting a stamp on it, has basically moved over to electronic format, and that's represented in the e-mail system that we have today. We have it in various forms, from very sophisticated applications like Microsoft Outlook, to AOL, Yahoo!, Google mail, and so forth.