Business Communication Today, 13th Ed.
Chapter 7. Digital Media
"An annual report by The Open University said the current key challenge for education specialists is to engage thousands of learners in productive discussions while learning in a collaborative, online environment.
"A Salem College faculty member last semester took an uncompromising approach to curbing syllabus and inbox bloat: Why not ban most student emails?
"What does it take to avoid alienating the very people with whom we’re hoping to connect?
"We need new rules on when you should text, when you should call, when you should email," writes Nicholas Carlson (photo, left).
"We asked career, email, and marketing experts to offer their best tips for crafting the perfect email subject line.
"Do you know how you sound in emails?
Matt Rosoff makes the case at BusinessInsider.
This website offers a wealth of advice on producing quality videos.
"We need new rules on when you should text, when you should call, when you should email," writes Nicholas Carlson (photo, left).
John Brandon has mastered his email inbox but "there's one thing [he's] mastered even more than that: spotting a lack of confidence.
"There are so many interesting facts and numbers in the world of presentations, this infographic could be 5 times the size.
"It’d [be] easy to bash PowerPoint, especially given the poor uses we see all too often .
According to Karla Guiterrez, "eLearning professionals are often over-confident about a course’s ability to capture an audience’s attention and engage users with its content.
"This article looks at strategies you can use to ensure that your use of email is clear, effective, and successful.
According to Vicki Davis, "Every email message from a parent or colleague is an opportunity to create a powerful impression.
"Here are seven easy ways to prevent email from killing your productivity and taking over your day: .
Justin Gmoser covers the topic in a video presentation.
Harvey Schacter (photo, left) writes, "Your biggest problem with e-mail may not be the stream of messages floating into your inbox 24 hours a day.
"Even though plenty of consumers have discarded SMS in favor of WhatsApp and now Snapchat, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reports that texting is fast becoming the way consumers want to communicate.
"When you introduce a new person by email, you can spark great new relationships if you share more than name and contact information.
Recently Gmail began dividing its incoming email into 3 inboxes - primary, social (Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest), and promotional (newsletters, retail offers, etc.
"It's the Internet of the Ephemeral—the side of the Internet that gives us Snapchat and Confide and other apps that owe their popularity not just to the fact that they are not Facebook, but also to the fact that they trade, specifically, on their impermanence.
According to Naomi Garnice (photo, left) of the Daily Muse, "Considering that email is the primary form of communication in most offices, we don't always choose our written words as wisely as we should.
"Forget distinguishing the salad fork from the dinner fork.