Monique

[This is the third in a series about e-mail. Read earlier posts under the category e-mail.] Here are a few easy tips for tidying up messy messages: Check spelling and grammar before sending. Spell-check goes a long way toward making you sound smarter, but some people surprisingly don’t use it. Don’t use all caps. I […]

[This is the second in a series about e-mail. Read earlier posts under the category e-mail.] It seems e-mail overload is inevitable as long as people reach for the sometimes sinister “cc” field. By including everyone in your address book, or even a handful of people who you might like to include in a discussion,

E-mail has seemingly boundless attributes and has shaped the face of modern correspondence, but it can create unequaled debacles. In the right hands, e-mail is a speedy and effective way to pass news and keep in touch. But careless fingers can send sensitive material into the wrong in-box, clog up disk drive space and spoil

If any of you have started podcasting or video blogging, you might have noticed a discernible difference between what you’re doing with your computer microphone and what the pros are doing when they’re making voice-overs. Namely, you’re likely to hear very pronounced P sounds as you talk into the mic. We’ve addressed a couple different

Very nice! Our friends at STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal) have launched a new YouTube Channel to promote their programs and to aid in their ongoing quest to educate synagogues in the powers of technology. I believe one of the tools they use to put together their web videos is the Flip camera, which I’ve

It’s a good probability that at least one in 20 people can’t see everything on your website. That’s because a higher number of people than you probably expected are color blind in some way. Some statistics I’ve seen say that as many as 18 percent of people have some kind of visual limitation. Around 90

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One surprising fact about our own research into how people use websites is that they use the “contact us” page a lot. They glean a lot of information from it. They go there to see where you’re located, to find directions, to meet the people who work for your organization. What a pity that so

The thing about weblogs is that they’re supposed to be quick and easy to put together. A theory that’s compounded by the number of people who “blog” live events. That’s to say they attend an event and bring their computer with them and provide nearly real-time feedback on what they’re seeing. That’s of course the

There could be a million reasons people aren’t using your site – maybe it’s summer vacation time, maybe there’s something going on in the news that’s diverting their attention, maybe you don’t even have a site yet – but I think there are three main barriers that keep people from visiting a site. Here are