Business Communication Today, 13th Ed.
Chapter 7. Digital Media
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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Sarah Green interviews Bryan Garner in this podcast at HBR Blog.
"In this Business English Pod episode we’re going to look at making a verbal progress report during a meeting.
"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.
"This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series on motivating your team.
"In this lesson, we’ll look at some ways to motivate your team.
"When you introduce a new person by email, you can spark great new relationships if you share more than name and contact information.
"This is the second in a two-part Business English Podcast lesson on resolving conflict, in which we’ve been focusing on solving everyday disagreements in the office.
In this piece at BusinessInsider.
"People do not always get along, so dealing with conflict is part of any job.
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.
"This second part of a two-part Business English Podcast series on running and participating in a problem-solving meeting.
"One of the most common reasons for holding a meeting is to solve a problem.
"As consumers use mobile devices more and more to read email, creating flawless designs that are readable and useful in both desktop and mobile environments can be quite a challenge.
"In this intermediate Business English Pod lesson, we look at ways to give and ask for opinions.
Shel Israel (photo, left) shares his 12 tips.
"If you're like most professionals, you probably write dozens of emails a day but barely think about the subject line.