Thursday, August 22, 2013

Forty words and phrases to avoid in any email!

What's your most irritating expression? Just released is a book called Damp Squid, written by Jeremy Butterfield. Researchers at Oxford University recently compiled a list of the top ten most irritating phrases. This list is very useful to business writers and almost any non-personal email writer because authors certainly want to avoid using them, and they illustrate the morphing nature of language. The researchers who compiled the list monitor the use of phrases in a massive language database called the Oxford University Corpus, which comprises books, papers, magazines, broadcast, the internet, and other sources. The database alerts the researchers to new words and phrases, and can tell them which expressions are disappearing, or being over used so much they have become irritating to hear or read. If you do not see one of yours below, please suggest your own. We have expanded on these to total 40 most irritating phrases:

1. At the end of the day
2. Fairly unique
3. I personally
4. At this moment in time
5. With all due respect
6. Absolutely
7. It's a nightmare
8. Shouldn't of
9. 24/7
10. It's not rocket science
11. Very unique (related to #3)
12. It's not brain surgery (related to #10)
13. Perfect (related to #6)
14. No problem
15. For sure
16. FYI
17. ASAP
18. To tell the truth
19. You have caught me away
20. No way
21. Out of the box
22. Ergonomically
23. My bad
24. Not to worry
25. No worries
26. In my humble opinion - IMHO
27. Dude!
28. Swell
29. Right on!
30. Yeah!
31. Pursuant
32. As per our discussion
33. Alright - not a word - use all right
34. Should of
35. With all due respect
36. KISS (Keep it simple stupid)
37. Hit (visit)
38. Distro (Distribution list)
39. No worries
40. Been there, done that
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Facebook and Social EMail Privacy

Facebook email privacy

An ongoing area of debate is email privacy. The following are considerations pertaining to policies and laws in this area. The media often comments about companies’ asking job candidates for their Facebook passwords as part of the employment screening process. There is no federal law prohibiting this. The Department of Justice, however, considers it a crime to ask an employee or candidate for access. Both are in direct violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service, which state, “You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else… You will not share your password…let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.” Many states are now looking to make this practice illegal. Asking for personal passwords is a clear privacy violation and is unethical. Employers must not access profile information to determine an employee’s religious, sexual, or political views. Because email and social media go hand-in-hand, this section is included in this book.

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