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The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, Second Edition
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The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, Second Edition

by Nancy Flynn
January 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
9h 41m
English
AMACOM
Content preview from The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, Second Edition
Establishing Electronic Writing Style Policies for Employees 227
does not mean that every reader, intended and hidden, will have a
trouble-free experience with messages that are written in English.
Determine who your reader is and what your reader’s language needs
are before you start writing. If necessary, have your message translated.
International correspondence calls for more detailed and specific
information than domestic e-mail. For example, a message that reads,
‘‘The teleconference to review employment policies will begin at 6:00
p.m. on 6/5/09,’’ could have disastrous results. Americans would read
that date as June 5, 2009. Europeans would ...
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ISBN: 9780814410783