Business Communication Today, 15th Ed.
Chapter 7. Digital Media
"It’d [be] easy to bash PowerPoint, especially given the poor uses we see all too often .
"Twitter’s search tool is an incredibly powerful part of the system but it’s criminally underused.
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: .
"Here is one of the most common business inquiries I receive: 'I am about to launch a (business/book/seminar) and want to use Twitter to do it,'" says Mark W.
Justin Gmoser covers the topic in a video presentation.
"To many people, LinkedIn seems like a chaotic, confusing mess," declares Janet Scarborough Civitelli, Ph.
Take a look at a "Day in the Life of" Morgan, a communications employee at JetBlue.
According to Aaron Taube, "To make sure you and your future employer get off on the right foot, it's important to avoid meaningless buzzwords like "strategic" that make it look as if you haven't put a lot of thought into your profile.
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.
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"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.
"In recent years Facebook has been mocked for copying key aspects of Twitter: hashtags, @ tagging, lists and more.
"When you introduce a new person by email, you can spark great new relationships if you share more than name and contact information.
"Want to get more followers and increase engagement on Twitter?
"This is it.
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.
"Understandably, for many students, email is a venue of freedom and distance from academic considerations.