Netiquette - Effective Email Use For a Job Search - A presentation GIven BY Paul Babicki

This past February, I was honored to present to a local job search group. Below are some of the topics I discussed, most of which have been articles on this blog. Please navigate the archives. There is a wealth of information!

Paul Babicki explains how to use email effectively in a job search

Posted on February 12, 2014 by PSGCNJ Contributor

By Rita Williams




Whether you’re new to the job market or a seasoned veteran, you probably already know that a tremendous amount of your job search takes place over e-mail. Gone are the days when you had to send your paper cover letters and résumés to future employers via a post office.
Now, job seekers send nearly all their correspondence via e-mail, including thank you notes, portfolios, follow-up questions to recruiters – the list goes on and on.
If you want to learn how to use e-mail effectively in your job search, then you may want to attend PSGCNJ’s general meeting on Monday, February 17^th, where Paul Babicki will discuss his book Netiquette IQ: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance, and Add Power to Your E-Mail.
Referencing his book, which covers all facets of email communication, Babicki will explain:

• how to write well and avoid using clichés
• how to shape an eye-catching subject line in an email
• what the email time-stamp tells others about your personality, i.e., whether you are  a night owl, versus an early riser
• how to troubleshoot technical errors, and
• how to craft an e-mail security policy

Kirkus Reviews calls Netiquette IQ “a mashup of Strunk and White, Miss Manners, Aristotle and Microsoft Help, all laid out in a well-organized, very readable text sprinkled with amusing examples and phrased in the tart, aphoristic style of an exacting schoolmaster (‘The better it sounds, the more it is trusted’).”
So, let Paul Babicki show you how to hone and refine your Net expertise! Bring a friend and come to hear him speak at PSGCNJ’s general meeting on Monday, February 17^th, from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church, located at 48 West High Street, Somerville.

Netiquette Quote of The Day From Steven Hawking - Via Netiquette IQ

The Heartbleed virus has caused a great deal of damage. Almost all of us have experienced a destructive virus. I, for one, am puzzled that anyone would want to bring harm to people they have never nor will ever know. Mr. Hawking's quote below is a most compelling one and I hope it will serve to have us all reflect on the damage we can do and can avoid doing!
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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” - Stephen Hawking

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In addition to this blog, I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, " Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.

Netiquette Security - The Ultimate Guide For "Heartbleed" From US-CERT - Via Netiquette IQ

The best source of Internet security is US CERT, United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team. This should be a source for all on-line companies, groups and users.
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·         OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f

·         OpenSSL 1.0.2-beta

Overview

A vulnerability in OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to expose sensitive data, possibly including user authentication credentials and secret keys, through incorrect memory handling in the TLS heartbeat extension.

Description

OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f contain a flaw in its implementation of the TLS/DTLS heartbeat functionality. This flaw allows an attacker to retrieve private memory of an application that uses the vulnerable OpenSSL library in chunks of 64k at a time. Note that an attacker can repeatedly leverage the vulnerability to retrieve as many 64k chunks of memory as are necessary to retrieve the intended secrets. The sensitive information that may be retrieved using this vulnerability include:

·         Primary key material (secret keys)

·         Secondary key material (user names and passwords used by vulnerable services)

·         Protected content (sensitive data used by vulnerable services)

·         Collateral (memory addresses and content that can be leveraged to bypass exploit mitigations)

Exploit code is publicly available for this vulnerability.  Additional details may be found in CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#720951.

Impact

This flaw allows a remote attacker to retrieve private memory of an application that uses the vulnerable OpenSSL library in chunks of 64k at a time.

Solution

OpenSSL 1.0.1g has been released to address this vulnerability.  Any keys generated with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL should be considered compromised and regenerated and deployed after the patch has been applied.

US-CERT recommends system administrators consider implementing Perfect Forward Secrecy to mitigate the damage that may be caused by future private key disclosures.

References

·         OpenSSL Security Advisory

·         The Heartbleed Bug

·         CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#720951

·         Perfect Forward Secrecy

·         RFC2409 Section 8 Perfect Forward Secrecy

Revisions

·         Initial Publication
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In addition to this blog, I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, " Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.

Netiquette Quote of The Day - Figures of Speech- Via Netiquette IQ

My blog yesterday listed the most common figures of speech. These literary devices can find their way into many of our emails, letters, even resumes and proposals! Today's quote from Samuel Beckett reflects this. It is far better Netiquette and it will produce better results, to use power words rather than figures of speech!
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"I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real than nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark." ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

-Samuel Beckett
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In addition to this blog, I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, " Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.

 

 

Netiquette IQ - Figures of Speech - Via Netiquette IQ

One area of the English language that can serve to confuse plain and straightforward vocabulary is that of figures of speech. Not only can these provide confusion both for native English speakers and those who speak English as a second language.

I would suggest that the following list be kept as a reference list, particularly for those emails involving employment or sales/marketing. The following is an extensive list from About.com
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From About.com

By Richard Nordquist

The Top 20 Figures of Speech

1. Alliteration
   The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
2. Anaphora
   The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)
3. Antithesis
   The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
4. Apostrophe
   Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
5. Assonance
   Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
6. Chiasmus
   A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
7. Euphemism
   The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
8. Hyperbole
   An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
9. Irony
   The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
10. Litotes
    A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
11. Metaphor
    An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
12. Metonymy
    A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
13. Onomatopoeia
    The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
14. Oxymoron
    A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
15. Paradox
    A statement that appears to contradict itself.
16. Personification
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
17. Pun
    A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
18. Simile
    A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
19. Synecdoche
    A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966").
20. Understatement
    A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
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    In addition to this blog, I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, " Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:
    
     www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki
    
     If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.