Netiquette… we don’t know how to communicate
Christine Cahoon Thu 09 Feb 2012 updated: Mon 15 Mar 2021
I’ve been getting a lot of email recently relating to my work and found it to be quite surprising how poorly people send email and respond to my own emails. Here's an excellent article on how to use email... have a read:
https://www.lifewire.com/fundamental-email-etiquette-1171187
I agree with most of what it says. But it makes me wonder... is it just me (and this guy) and we have to get used to this demise of communication... I expect so sadly.
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Christine Cahoon Mon 15 Mar 2021
Well, that was in 2012... more updated resources are posted... this latest post is "Email Etiquette for Students: https://custom-writing.org/blog/email-etiquette-for-students". It explains:
- the importance of digital communication skills
- provides general rules for writing a formal email
- gives good and bad examples and
- a list of things to check before you hit send.
Worth a browse through!
BTW I'm grateful for this post but still think that very few care for good use of email, and unfortunately, large companies expect us to sit on the phone trying to get support of any kind instead of allowing us to articulate on email so there is a record and they can respond accordingly... they like wasting our time! But that's for another blog!