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While my students constantly assure me that “nobody reads e-mail” (preferring instead to rely on instant messaging and texting for their conversations) the amount of focus given to e-mail and its proper usage continues. From today’s NY Times:
‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations
What’s in an e-mail sign-off? A lot, apparently. Those final few
words above your name [...]
I’m as big a fan of technology as the anyone-but when you find yourself e-mailing the person in the next cube, or cc’ing your whole company just to CYA, something has gone seriously wrong.
*!#@ The E-Mail. Can We Talk?
As International
Association of Business Communicators President Julie Freeman notes,
most corporate policies are “aimed at protecting the e-mail [...]
In the age of the Internet, literary exegesis (whether driven by
scandal or not) is no longer undertaken solely by pale critics or
plodding lawyers speaking only to each other, but by a global hive,
humming everywhere at once, and linked to the wiki. And if you are big
enough to matter (as any writer would hope to be), [...]
For those folks still counting on experiencing the “paperless future” in this lifetime
November 25, 2006 in Commentary, Writing Stuff
Catalogs, Catalogs, Everywhere
From the December 4th Business Week:
Thanks to e-commerce, as well as rising printing and mailing costs,
catalogs were supposed to be dead by now. But a quick visit to the
mailbox will confirm that predictions of their death have been vastly
exaggerated. Catalogs are, in fact, more popular than ever—and thriving
because of the limitations of shopping [...]