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Feedback in e-mail
Feedback in e-mail
I’m no power user, but I always find something of interest when I listen to the Mac Power Users podcast. This morning, listening to episode 740 while out on a walk, I was happy to hear a tech person confirming the wisdom of one of the bits of advice — to reply and say thanks — in my post How to e-mail a professor.
#academia#college#e-mail#professors#students
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Feedback in e-mail
Revising again
Revising again
One more addition to How to e-mail a professor, now that I can get through to ChatGPT: Don’t ask AI to write an e-mail for you. At least not if you want your e-mail to sound like the work of a human being.
#academia#e-mail#technology#revision#AI
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Revising again
Revising
Revising
I took a look at How to e-mail a professor the other night and noticed three sentences that needed revision.
#academia#e-mail#revision
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Revising
Phish identification
Phish identification
Adam Engst’s “An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish.” Worth reading carefully — just as with sketchy e-mails.
#e-mail#spam
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Phish identification
Uffizi e-mail etiquette
Uffizi e-mail etiquette
Eike Schmidt, the director of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, has made rules for staff e-mail.
#e-mail
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Uffizi e-mail etiquette
Finding you well
Finding you well
Never to begin an e-mail with “I hope this e-mail finds you well.” Or “I hope this email finds you well.”
#e-mail
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Finding you well
Methods of communication
Methods of communication
Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. They were talking, of course, about their Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. SC: “Now there’s a lot of texting in the show. Do you guys have your own text chain between the three of you?” SG: “No, it’s strictly e-mail with these guys.”
#e-mail#telephone#television
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Methods of communication
I am not that guy
I am not that guy
I frequently get e-mails for some guy with my name. But I am not that guy.
#e-mail
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I am not that guy
Lighting and me
Lighting and me
I finally realized why I get so much spam mail about lighting fixtures.
#e-mail#spam
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Lighting and me
“O.K.,” “K,” “kk”
“O.K.,” “K,” “kk”
In The New York Times, a Q & A column about workplaces covers “kk,” which some younger people apparently prefer to “OK” or “K” in e-mail and texts.
#e-mail#words
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“O.K.,” “K,” “kk”
“Normal” in Gmail
“Normal” in Gmail
I like the premise that “Dear” is not an appropriate way to begin. In my post “How to e-mail a professor,” I caution against it.
#e-mail
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“Normal” in Gmail
Mozy, sketchy
Mozy, sketchy
This stern, cryptic message makes quite a contrast to Mozy’s shiny, cheerful newsletter-like e-mails to users.
#e-mail#Mozy
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Mozy, sketchy
Something phishy
Something phishy
About e-mail, expletive infixation, and my deep and unerasable misgivings about voting for Hillary Clinton.
#e-mail#politics#words
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Something phishy
Recently updated
Recently updated
“How to e-mail a professor,” now with a not-behind-a-paywall link to Ben Yagoda’s essay “What Should We Call the Professor?”
#college#e-mail
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Recently updated
Backward e-mail
Backward e-mail
David Sparks of MacSparky explains backward e-mail.
#e-mail
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Backward e-mail
No e-mails, ever, almost
No e-mails, ever, almost
Better that students should learn to use it with appropriate measures of informality and patience than not use it at all.
#college#e-mail
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No e-mails, ever, almost
E-mailing professors
E-mailing professors
“I never know what to say in the subject line and how to address the person. Is it mister or professor and comma and return, and do I have to capitalize and use full sentences? By the time I do all that I could have an answer by text if I could text them.” You can’t, at least not for the most part. But you can read guidelines: How to e-mail a professor.
#college#e-mail#students
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E-mailing professors