Netiquette IQ Blog Of Why Email May Actually Be A Great Way To Say 'I Love You' Love in the time of Gmail.

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Why Email May Actually Be A Great Way To Say 'I Love You' Love in the time of Gmail. Carolyn GregoireSenior Health + Science Writer, The Huffington Post Posted: 09/03/2015 01:21 PM EDT Credit: Igor Stevanovic/Getty ImagesResearch findings suggest emailing is not having a negative effect on intimate communication. As a mode of communication, email gets a pretty bad rap.  It's a common belief among psychologists and the general public that the further a form of communication gets from face-to-face interaction, the less effective and intimate it becomes.  "Excessive smartphone use drives us away from each other, and we only choose to communicate impersonally and for superficial matters," one blogger lamented about texting and emailing. But these concerns may be overblown. New research suggests that people actually use more expressive emotional language when communicating with their loved ones via email compared to speaking with them on the phone.  The Indiana University study found that when people are unable to pick up on subtle cues like tone of voice and body language to convey emotion, they tend to compensate by using more positive emotional content and thoughtful language.  "People are more explicit about romance when they write an email than when they leave a voicemail," Dr. Alan Dennis, a business professor at the university and one of the study's authors, told The Huffington Post in an email. For the study, researchers analyzed the language used by 72 college students in emails and voicemails in which they were expressing affection towards their significant others.  The findings showed that when writing emails, the students used more emphatic language than they did in the voicemails. Crafting an email gives people the opportunity to think more deeply about a message and to be more conscious of the way they deliver it, the researchers explained.   Here's an example of an email used in the study:  Subject: Hey beautiful Hey <recipient> How are you today beautiful? Miss me? I miss you a lot. I hope to see you soon :)  I am looking forwards to seeing your beautiful face :) . I hope you haven't forgotten me so soon. I love you a lot <recipient>. Who knows why one loves another  I just know that you are the one for me.  Take care beautiful  sleep well and sweetest of dreams my love.  Love always and forever  <sender>   And a voicemail:   Hey babe.  What's going on?  I miss you a lot right now. I hope that I see you later. I know we have dinner plans but who knows you said you could be busy with something but I'll definitely still come over if you are and help you. Miss and love you. Bye. "Email lets you take time to think before you communicate," Dennis said, adding that the medium allows you to "edit your comments so you can carefully craft the exact message you want to send." Can this be explained by the fact that college students have grown up using email and text messages to communicate? Not necessarily.  "Perhaps we all adapt to some extent to the shortcomings of different media, and with experience learn how to best use them to communicate," Dennis said. The findings, which will be published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior in January 2016, suggest that using technology to communicate doesn't necessarily hasten the downfall of interpersonal connections and intimacy.  "There's a lot of theory that says email and other text communications don't really work very well," Dennis said in a written statement. "We should probably go back and reconsider a lot of the stereotypical assumptions that we hold about email and text messaging that may not hold true." Could this be the final nail in voicemail's coffin? Hopefully. Nobody really likes voicemail. For a great email parody, view the following link: ======================================================= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgYHHKs0Zw&__scoop_post=bcaa0440-2548-11e5-c1bd-90b11c3d2b20&__scoop_topic=2455618 ============================================== Special Bulletin - My just released book, "You're Hired. Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes! (And Get That Job...) is now on sales at Amazon.com ================================================ **Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for IP management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions: www.tabularosa.net In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” will be published soon follow by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. 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  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also 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. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications.  Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone. ==============================================

Netiquette IQ Blog Of 9/4/2015 - Email is dead? Not so fast.

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PETER GASCA CONTRIBUTOR Entrepreneur, Startup Consultant        SEPTEMBER 03, 2015 Email is dead? Not so fast. Ever since Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg made her highly visibly pronouncement that email was going away five years ago, the debate about the usefulness and longevity of email has raged. With new generations embracing new communication tools and apps every day, there might just be a strong argument that it could outlive its usefulness. Like most debates around technology, however, facts trump opinions. Take, for example, the widely-shared viewpoint that Facebook was fading into its twilight years, with younger users leaving in droves for Instagram. Facebook, however, recently hit a new milestone with 1 billion active users in a single day. That hardly sounds like fading. Another recent study revealed a positive trend in emails sent and email accounts created, with both estimated to increase 8 percent and 19 percent respectively from 2014 to 2017. Related: The 5 Magic Elements That Boost Email Marketing ROI Into the Stratosphere Need more evidence? Consider a report released last week by Adobe which looked into our email-consumption behavior. The study, which surveyed more than 400 white-collar workers in the U.S., seems to indicate that email is clearly not fading, and indeed our addiction to email may never have been stronger. Consider the following statistics about respondents’ behavior around email: ·         70 percent check email while watching TV ·         50 percent check email in bed ·         50 percent check email while on vacation ·         42 percent check email while in the bathroom (also known as the second office) ·         43 percent check email while on the phone ·         18 percent check email while driving ·         Respondents spend six hours per day checking email I definitely fall into these categories -- each one of them. Of course, this is good news for marketers who have struggled to find a way to reach consumers in the ever-changing-technology and content-consumption landscape. Marketers should not, however, rush out and press that "send" button to their distribution lists just yet. Patrick Tripp, senior product marketing manager for Adobe Campaign, an email-campaign-management system for businesses, states that while consumers are still using email, data shows that they are very selective about how they use it. ·         28 percent of consumers are annoyed to have to scroll through emails ·         24 percent are annoyed with the layout not being optimized for mobile ·         39 percent want to see fewer emails in general And interestingly:  ·         58 percent say that email is their preferred way to be contacted by a brand, but  ·         32 percent say they want fewer repetitive emails from the brands with which they have relationships With no historic numbers to compare, it is difficult to draw a conclusion about the trend in consumer preferences, but when you consider that almost one third of all respondents used email but had some issue with the format and content, marketers would be wise to take notice and adjust their strategies accordingly. Related: Craft a Great Email Sales Pitch by Following This 5-Step Process Before you swap your email-marketing strategy for a Snapchat strategy, consider these tips to get more benefit from your email campaigns. 1. Be mobile ready. More people are consuming content via a handheld smart device, so email marketers should consider a "mobile first" strategy. In fact, all components of your email campaign -- from the email itself to the linked landing pages to the virtual checkout carts -- need to be mobile ready to assure a seamless experience. 2. Remember that less is more. Though consumers are using email, they do not want to be inundated by it. Be respectful with their time, add value to their days and never send an email that does not make your customer’s life better in some way. 3. Let consumers set their pace. Never make it feel like you are trying to manipulate the consumer to get contact information. Make it painfully easy for consumers to set their email options, including times and frequency. Also, ask for an occasional "re-opt in," which will clear out your email list while build trust with your loyal customers. 4. Personalize and add value. As the Adobe study demonstrated, 58 percent of consumers want to be contacted by their favorite brands -- that is six in 10 customers who are giving you permission to send them an email. So how do you become one of the brands they want to hear from? More important, how do you avoid having that permission rescinded?   The answer is to add value by providing useful content through personalized email campaigns using data and contextual information about your audience to help craft the right message, at the right time, to the right place (email address). Consider, for example, that most business professionals have a business and a personal email account (sometimes more). Instead of sending one email to multiple email addresses several days a week, you should be targeting specific addresses based on your customer’s unique online behavior, perhaps using contextual data, such as location and weather. Also, we spend much time talking about the “right time to send an email,” but the Adobe data shows we are consuming data at all times of the day. If you knew when your customer was in bed or in his "second office," you could better target delivery when they are reading email. Of course, all of these tips are supplementary to a well-thought-out email strategy and requires time, effort and even some expense. The benefits, however, are quite substantial. According to Adobe, "We know from data on actual site visits and conversions tracked within the Adobe Digital Index that loyal visitors who spend more and convert at higher rates are twice as likely to come from email than from the average channel." That doesn't sound like email is dying. For a great email parody, view the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgYHHKs0Zw&__scoop_post=bcaa0440-2548-11e5-c1bd-90b11c3d2b20&__scoop_topic=2455618 ============================================== Special Bulletin - My just released book, "You're Hired. Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes! (And Get That Job...) is now on sales at Amazon.com **Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for IP management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions: www.tabularosa.net In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” will be published soon follow by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. 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  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also 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. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications.  Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone. ==============================================

Netiquette IQ Security Alert - (ISC) Releases Security Updates for BIND

(ISC) Releases Security Updates for BIND Original release date: September 02, 2015 ISC has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in BIND. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Available updates include: ·         BIND 9 version 9.9.7-P3 ·         BIND 9 version 9.10.2-P4 Users and administrators are encouraged to review ISC Knowledge Base Articles AA-01291 and AA-01287 and apply the necessary updates.                                                            Special Bulletin - My just released book, "You're Hired. Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes! (And Get That Job...) is now on sales at Amazon.com  Landing your next job has as much to do with getting your email opened and read as it does with your qualifications.  Job searches don’t work the way they used to. Employers use email to weed out job candidates as they search for the perfect match.  Crafting effective, professional messages could make all the difference in securing your next position. It’s all about the email.  If your email is not opened and read, you can’t get to the next phase of getting your dream job!  Read this book and in just 60 minutes you’ll know how to write better email. Learn to compose emails effectively and soon you’ll hear those magic words:  “You’re Hired!” “Being able to provide candidates with tips for using email more effectively in their job search, is something our MRINetwork recruiters truly value. This edition of Netiquette IQ provides a self-evaluative approach to improving email communication at every level… It offers recruiters a reference guide for ensuring candidates present themselves in the best manner when communicating with clients. The power of these best practices is measurable, especially when top clients land Impact Players.” Scott Bass, Director of Marketing and Communications, MRINetwork® EXPERTS IN GLOBAL SEARCH Paul Babicki is the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems (www.tabularosa.net), a company that sells network, security, email filtering as well as email grammar, tone and content software. Paul’s first book is “Netiquette IQ A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email.” Check out his popular blog at (http://NetiquetteIQ.blogspot.com) =========================================   Great Netiquette To All!
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For a great email parody, view the following link:

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In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. 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  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also 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. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications. 

Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone.

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