1. Basics of Email Etiquette Best Practices June 23, 2011 Presented by: Project Mgmt Success Team Pete J. and Keith K.
2. Agenda Welcome and Introductions Where is it going? Lettering font and size Email Handles All Caps Da Boss Email length and size Thank You’s CC’ing people Think Value Add Too Many emails Do’s and Don’ts Proof reading Q & A
Introduce your partner (neighbor) Name Professional background Do they have an online presence? Y/N Which app? (LinkedIn; Facebook; Twitter; blogs?) One reason most OR least comfortable with Social Media app? Hope to get our of workshop?
Introduce your partner (neighbor) Name Professional background Do they have an online presence? Y/N Which app? (LinkedIn; Facebook; Twitter; blogs?) One reason most OR least comfortable with Social Media app? Hope to get our of workshop?
Email uses only 7% of our communications abilities.
Font style not as important as proper font sizing (must be easy to read)
Where do you fit on the scale of skeptic to believer? 1 is for those who don’t think it’s any use at all for job searches and 5 is for those who are certain it’s a great tool to add to your toolbox for job searching. NOTE: LOTS OF INFORMATION – DON’T PANIC!
For maximum effectiveness, keep emails short.
Your own blog, contribute to someone else’s blog, add your profile to Google and to Yahoo, make sure you have a good Linked In presence. List on flip chart.
5 minutes (list on flip chart) Ideas: complete google and yahoo profiles, blog, join the board of an association, contribute to other’s blogs, write articles, contribute to papers, tweet, website, add your blog/website, etc to LinkedIn, etc.
Branding can include discussions with groups on LinkedIn & Facebook; Blogs
Sign up for a job channel – ask for a volunteer. Drop this exercise if short of time.