NetiquetteIQ has an updated author site at Amazon

My new book site has been updated. It can be viewed here:

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00FY3GW7S

Great news and an announcement! My book, NetiquetteIQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email has gone on sale at the CreateSpace estore:http://createspace.com/4083121

As a NetiquetteIQ blog reader, you can use the discount code KBQALZA7. This discount is only through the estore. Thank you for your support on the blog and with the book. The book and Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon.

More good news!

The Kindle version of my book is now available! Go to the following site to purchase it:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFAMN0U

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This blog is reprinted from 3/2013. It is a subject which arises more and more frequently. It is appropriate to present it again. Many of the blog entries produced here are focused upon the tangible elements within an email. These would include fields, spelling, attachments and many more. Collectively, all of these contribute to the quality, readability and clarity of our emails.

However, no matter how perfect an email may be structurally, if the tone is not conveyed or interpreted correctly, an email might produce negative results.
 
Perhaps the best insight into this was described by Nicholas Epley (University of Chicago) and Prof. Justin Kruger (New York University) in a study published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, December 2005.

Epley and Kruger discovered that not only were the receivers of the e-mails overconfident about their understanding of the message's tone, but the senders were as well. About 78% of the senders thought that the receiver would correctly interpret the tone of their e-mail message. Some of professor Epley's other conclusions were "People in our study were convinced they've accurately understood the tone of an e-mail message when in fact their odds are no better than chance (58%)." and "People often think the tone or emotion in their messages is obvious because they 'hear' the tone they intend in their head as they write." The research also maintained that recipients believe they've correctly interpreted the tone 90% of the time!

We should all be careful of our tone and do everything possible to accomplish the delivery and effect we intend. This particularly is true for those writing to others outside their, demographics, country or culture. Future blogs will elaborate upon optimizing the accuracy of tone for each message an email sender composes.

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Great news and an announcement! My book, NetiquetteIQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email has gone on sale at the CreateSpace estore:http://createspace.com/4083121

As a NetiquetteIQ blog reader, you can use the discount code KBQALZA7. This discount is only through the estore. Thank you for your support on the blog and with the book. The book and Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon.

More good news!

The Kindle version of my book is now available! Go to the following site to purchase it:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFAMN0U

#PaulBabicki
#netiquette

Happy Halloween everyone!

See this animated link!

http://www.care2.com/send/card/6550

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A great on-line discussion on ecards

One of the discussion groups which I belong to is Minding Manners, a Yahoo group.

There is a great ongoing discussion going on regarding ecards that was the subject of my last blog.This group is well worth joining for many topics on etiquette with contributions from a lot of very bright people. Find it in the Yahoo groups section.

Good manners and Netiquette are truly for everyone!

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Great news and an announcement! My book, NetiquetteIQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email has gone on sale at the CreateSpace estore:http://createspace.com/4083121

As a NetiquetteIQ blog reader, you can use the discount code KBQALZA7. This discount is only through the estore. Thank you for your support on the blog and with the book. The book and Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon.

More good news!

The Kindle version of my book is now available! Go to the following site to purchase it:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFAMN0U

#PaulBabicki
#netiquette

Security issues with ecards

One of the major downsides of ecards is that security can be compromised: when someone purchases an ecard, he or she is providing information to the seller, or third party. One of the more extreme examples of this is that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is suspended to allow sites to accept a child’s ecard request and addresses without parental permission, as would normally be the case. There are also countless scams involving ecards, which can mislead children or people of any age. It is almost too much to ask certain people to have the discipline not to open ecards.

While there is much positive impact associated with ecards, as has been discussed, the negative issues, particularly many of the most significant ones, can have, more often, negative effects. After all, far more people would rather have a real or, at the very least, personalized ecard.

For those who will steadfastly refuse to open an ecard, there may very well be times when a legitimate message goes unopened—still another negative outcome. This can end up with an effect such as having the recipient feel disappointment that he or she did not receive a greeting or invitation by someone he or she was expecting to hear from. What is a good solution? There are some very popular ecard providers. If you want to use trusted sources of ecards, go to either www.jacquielawson.com or www.care2.com/ecards  Also you can view much more on ecards in my new book at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00FY3GW7S 

Happy Holidays!

Great news and an announcement! My book, NetiquetteIQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email has gone on sale at the CreateSpace estore:http://createspace.com/4083121

As a NetiquetteIQ blog reader, you can use the discount code KBQALZA7. This discount is only through the estore. Thank you for your support on the blog and with the book. The book and Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon.

More good news!

The Kindle version of my book is now available! Go to the following site to purchase it:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFAMN0U

#PaulBabicki
#netiquette
 

Paul Babicki' Netiquette book press release

Power Point presentation for job seekers

One of the major uses of business emails is for employment seekers. I recently presented to The Breakfast Club of NJ:

 www.thebreakfastclubnj.com

Here is the presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/paulbabicki/netiquette-iq-pp-presentation-for-breakfast-club-o-10-122013-2?utm_source=slideshow&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=post_upload

The points discussed should assist anyone in strengthening their email in the job seeking process.

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Attention company email managers.
If you are manage your organization's email and would like a free copy of my book, kindly contact me, paul@netiquetteiq.com

My book, "NetiquetteIQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email" is now available for sale internationally.

In Great Britain
http://www.amazon.co.uk/NetiquetteIQ-Comprehensive-Guide-Improve-Enhance-ebook/dp/B00FFAMN0U

In Australia
http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/book/netiquetteiq-a-comprehensive-guide-to-improve-enhance-and-add-power-to-your-email/43465516/

In India
http://www.bookadda.com/books/netiquetteiq-comprehensive-guide-improve-enhance-paul-babicki-1481849522-9781481849524

Great news and an announcement! My book, NetiquetteIQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email has gone on sale at the CreateSpace estore:http://createspace.com/4083121

As a NetiquetteIQ blog reader, you can use the discount code KBQALZA7. This discount is only through the estore. Thank you for your support on the blog and with the book. The book and Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon.

More good news!

The Kindle version of my book is now available! Go to the following site to purchase it:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFAMN0U

#PaulBabicki

#netiquette