The Basics of Online Communication

Maintaining successful and effective communication in the digital world.

Using Email

The online tool we love and hate.

Why do we love email?Why do we love email?

•Because it’s so easy to use•Everyone has access to it•And we all love to get mail

Until…

We learn to hate email!

•Spam! (from friends and foes)•Inbox becomes a hodgepodge•No escape, email is always there•It’s a walled garden of info•Messages are misunderstood•It allows us to be lazy•Email tries to do too much

Do not:• open spam• click “unsubscribe” in spam• post your email everywhere• open attachments

The first problem…

Do not:• open spam• click “unsubscribe”• post your email everywhere• open attachments

Do:• delete all spam• keep your email private• use a fake email

NEVERNEVERNEVER

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F-pattern • Users first read in a horizontal

movement, usually across the upper part of the content area.

• Next, users move down the page a bit and then read across in a second horizontal movement that typically covers a shorter area than the previous

• Finally, users scan the content’s left side in a vertical movement.

What can we learn?

• users won't read your site thoroughly

• the first two paragraphs are the most important

• information-carrying words should start subheadings, bullet points and paragraphs

So what’s wrong with my site?

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Brian Bartel

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Dale Basler

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