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Whether you look to Miss Manners, the Cybercouth Tiger, Mother, or some other manners maven, they will all say that being polite will make people more receptive to your message. So, how can we hone our electronic communication skills to this degree? Let’s take a look at a few of the most egregious e-mail etiquette errors and discuss how certain situations should be handled. (more…)
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Welcome back to the podcast!
This week’s edition: “The Cybercouth Tiger Returns.”
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our friend and loyal listener, the Cybercouth Tiger. Today he joins us with more tips for how you can observe common courtesy when communicating at light speed.
It is quite rude to reveal the conclusion of a novel or film to someone before they have completed the work on their own. Doing so ruins their enjoyment and may result in them choosing not to see the work through to completion at all. An information dense e-mail message is another story altogether.
Are you sending mixed signals about who you are? One of the problematic beauties of the Internet is the ability to define yourself in multiple ways. People often use multiple personas on social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter to define themselves in multiple ways. The problem comes in because the nature of the Internet is to link things together. In some ways, it is fantastic that you can post in one place and automatically have the post repeated in others, but it can end in disaster. When convenience leads to complacency and you make a post about your exploits during a night out with friends that also posts to the very serious persona you were hoping would land you your dream job, you may discover that you have earned a merit badge in podiatric marksmanship.
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We received an email from one of our more exotic contributers this week with a great tip.
“Who was it?” you ask? Our new-found friend the Cybercouth Tiger, who is constantly on the prowl for bad netiquette.
Mr. Cybercouth writes: (more…)