Saturday, March 28, 2015

Netiquette Core Best And Worst Fonts For Email And Resumes From Netiquette IQ

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The following is a short list on the best fonts for an email, these are almost always sans serif, i.e. without stems. Conversely, serif fonts are best for long text such as books or mutli-page documents.Good Netiquette and the wish to be noticed often depends on something as simple and overlooked as fonts!

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The best and worst fonts for email and resumes from Netiquette IQ

Serif fonts are for readability while San Serif fonts are for legibility.

	Best (San Serif)	Worst (Serif)
10 Point	Arial Verdana Trebuchet Garamond	Times New Roman Georgia Century
12 Point	Arial Helvetica Trebuchet Courier (Monospace)	Times New Roman Century Palatino Georgia

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Netiquette IQ Quote Of The Day - Revealing Your Secrets

My blog has often shared information about privacy, security and on-line protection. This wonderful quote alludes to what you can expect when you have information anywhere on the Internet!
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“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” — Kahlil Gibran

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Netiquette For Social Media - Some Concepts Via Netiquette IQ

I have had several blog posts regarding Social Media Netiquette. As this media becomes more prevalent, the adherence to Netiquette really becomes more critical. Because of its great depth and personal information, the potential for abuse or manipulation become far -reaching in their effect. The article below is useful; in speaking to some Netiquette issues.
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Netiquette for sharing on Social Media…

MARCH 26, 2015 ~ AIMEE from theburnedhand.com

So, for what seems to be the thousandth time, I have just explained again on social media how using the share button is actually different from stealing someone’s work. I have many artist friends. Many. We create, we craft, we spend countless hours thinking of how a certain thing looks and how our audience might react to it. But more importantly, we do it for ourselves. Not to make millions of dollars, but because we feel this driving need to express ourselves. If what we do resonates with you, then by all means share our work. Please.

You can do that in any number of ways. Copy the link to our site and message your friend. Share and re-tweet us on Twitter. Find us on Instagram and click the little heart. Re-pin us on Pinterest. Follow a blog. Use the sharing tools on the blog. Do you know why these are acceptable? Because they link back to our original work. But for whatever reason, when you are on Facebook, you might think downloading our work is acceptable. Even though that awesome little share button is right there…it is made to circulate things you like.

Here is why downloading is not okay: As stated basically by all the legal verbiage you can find on FB, When an image is published on the internet, the owner of that image immediately owns copyright. If you doubt me, here is a reference link and you need to read Is it legal to download works from peer-to-peer networks and IF NOT what is the PENALTY for doing so?

So now you see why my friends are serious about the warnings they give. “If you use a copyrighted work without authorization, the owner may be entitled to bring an infringement action against you.” If you are a fan of many of the popular quote photo pages and you absolutely LOVE a particular quote, ask them if it’s on Pinterest so you can re-pin it. If it’s not, maybe they will make it available for you. I know I would if you said, I love this quote so much I want to marry it. Or whatever you normally say. I taught preschool (reminder). I don’t adult correctly.

Moving on, but when you leave this long-winded comment on my page after I have nicely explained why the 50 photos you just downloaded into your albums are not actually yours and that’s like me taking all the photos of you, your kids and putting them in my albums and saying they are mine, and you leave me this negative comment, but you threw a Namaste after it, well then, my gosh, that’s ok. Because you ended with “respect”. How about respect me enough to begin with and share correctly. That speaks volumes to me more than explaining away your actions by trying to cast blame. And for the record, I meditate and am completing a 200-hour Vinyasa yoga teacher certification, but if I broke into your house and stole your things and you caught me, but said Namaste to you as I was leaving, I hope it would be okay with you.

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Netiquette IQ Blog Of The Day - Is Facebook Becoming Too Much Like The World Of Orwell's "1984"?

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This was an article I found this morning and I wanted to post it right away. Essentially, it unnerved me quite a bit and George Orwell's title, "1984" echoed in my head like a loud church bell. It may be my paranoia, but I doubt I will ever put this much reliance and information on anything, let alone the Internet!

I wonder. Am I being too old-fashioned?
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Facebook wants to be involved with everything you do!

Thenextweb.com 3/26/2015 posted by Owen Williams

Facebook’s F8 conference today, it unveiled a number of big new changes to its service that transforms Messenger into a platform, expands Facebook Video even further and offers deeper integrations than ever for developers.

The changes are actually really cool and great news for developers — Facebook is finally turning Messenger into the hub for everything, like LINE and WeChat already did in Asia — but they also signal something much larger.

Facebook is declaring that it effectively wants to own every single thing you do on the internet.

Let’s quickly go through the things that Facebook is making inroads into controlling:

· Social networking

· Messaging your friends (Messenger, WhatsApp)

· Messaging businesses (Messenger)

· Advertising (Paid Ads, LiveRail, Pages)

· Paying your friends

· Buying and selling things online

· Virtual reality (Oculus)

· Gaming

· News

· Video/TV (Facebook Video)

· Development platform (Parse)

· How you actually receive the internet

· Photos (Instagram)

Here’s the thing: with Facebook’s announcements today, it’s suddenly significantly harder to avoid the service at all. If you didn’t have a Facebook already, like 1 billion other people, you’re going to find it even harder to avoid in the future with these changes. It’s now becoming the easiest way to do anything on the internet.

For example: you might wonder like I did this morning, why on earth you’d want to share your videos with Facebook over YouTube?

Think of it this way: with YouTube, you’re sharing videos into a vacuum and hoping they get picked up or discovered. On Facebook, you’re dropping them into the company’s entire friend graph immediately.

Your video shows up in News Feed for people straight away, without them needing to go to another service, and can naturally gain velocity from there as friends share, like or comment on it. YouTube doesn’t have that friend graph so it could never pull that off; nobody other than Facebook can deliver content so directly to relevant audiences. Right now, Facebook prioritizes showing video uploaded to the service in your News Feed, but for how long?

Facebook can deliver your content to more people than any other service. It owns the eyeballs that everyone wants to reach and the News Feed can deliver more engagement/views/clicks than any other service could hope to. These are the same reasons that news organizations are seemingly falling over themselves to publish their news directly to the service.

The problem is that Facebook controls what you see and when. If it becomes the primary way to consume news and watch videos, what happens when a news story is controversial about the company itself? Or isn’t within its content guidelines (like pornography)? You’ll be receiving a filtered version of the internet that’s controlled by one company.

With Messenger now serving as a platform, you’ll be able to do everything from ordering a cab to creating stupid GIFs, without needing to leave the service. You can message businesses directly to ask questions, reserve a table or organize an event. This is all possible from the same app.

Now that you can pay friends directly in the Messenger app too, there’s one less reason to leave. Every day that another integration is built for Messenger, there’s another reason to stay on the service; Facebook now owns your private conversations and your payments.

All of these things are awesome, because we live in a time where it’s easier than ever to do everything you want to do, with no friction, in a single place. Unfortunately, it also puts a lot of power in a single place. Google should be scared; the reasons to use its service are quickly decreasing as people stay inside Facebook’s walls longer.

For those in emerging countries, Facebook works with Internet.org to provide free access to a bunch of services in education, government and other areas. It also provides free access to Facebook.

Those who are connecting for the first time in these countries often don’t understand the difference between Facebook and “the internet.” Their first and last experience with the internet is on Facebook and they know nothing else.

While we’ve been busy fighting for net neutrality, Facebook has essentially pre-empted the idea of it in emerging countries. Who needs net neutrality when you’re providing the best of the internet, for free, inside your own platform?

That’s Facebook’s logic at least; it completely owns those people’s eyeballs. Nobody is challenging it in those countries.

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Netiquette Core Best And Worst Fonts For Email And Resumes From Netiquette IQ

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The best and worst fonts for email and resumes from Netiquette IQ

Netiquette IQ Quote Of The Day - Revealing Your Secrets

Friday, March 27, 2015

Netiquette For Social Media - Some Concepts Via Netiquette IQ

Netiquette IQ Blog Of The Day - Is Facebook Becoming Too Much Like The World Of Orwell's "1984"?