Business Communication Essentials, 7th Ed.
Chapter 6. Crafting Messages for Digital Channels
"If you’ve ever found yourself writing an email (or contemplating writing an email) to a Very Important Person, you know how intimidating it can be.
Work4Labs has created an infographic named "Mobile Recruiting by the (Surprising) Numbers.
Denise Scavitto covers her topic at Edudemic.
According to Melanie-Grace Obar, "Creating a brilliant business blog need not be a difficult task.
"Social media PR crises hit companies like tornados—out of nowhere and with deadly force," observes Peter Friedman (photo, left).
Dianne Gottsman (photo, left) advises, "As you set out 2014 with fresh goals and resolutions, don't overlook your social media profiles and activity.
"Let’s take a look at the top social media brands as if it was a game of SNAKES and LADDERS.
"Why do you use social media?
"Here’s the headline of a sales pitch email that landed (with a thud) recently in my inbox: .
"You’ve succeeded in getting a social media strategy in place, you’re sharing amazing, relevant content – and then WHAM! Someone posts a negative comment, and you feel like all of the wind has been let out of your sails.
"People are taking to your digital properties with pitchforks and lit torches.
"As technology adoption among small businesses increases, social media is an area that more business owners are becoming interested in.
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"I came across a table about the most frequently used words in spoken and written genres in James Pennebaker's book on "The Secret Life of Pronouns", so I did a quick analysis on my cca.
Scott Schwertly (photo, left) explains "how you can play the social card during your next presentation: .
"Kim Brown is an assistant director for Syracuse University's Career Services department.
Digital shaming has become the newest form of public stocks, ensuring the wrongdoings of individuals are widely known and impossible to erase.
Anyone who has worked with other people in other cultures is aware that emails across borders sometimes have unexpected results or even no result.
After getting fired in October from the high-tech startup where he had worked for more than four years Joshua Filgate, a 27-year-old engineer in Southborough, Mass.
Let's assume you're not stupid or a jerk or weird--that you're not misspelling every other word or ending every thought with "OK?
The infographic shows you how to maximize your use of Linkedin presence.
Social networking is the #1 activity online.
It seems that sharing online is still so very novel and so early in humans social digital development stage that we are like young children before we had all our brain cells lined up in the correct sequence that provided logical thought capabilities.
Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication.
Writing sensible email messages As we've seen before, getting your inbound email under control will give you a huge productivity boost, but what about all the emails you send?