{"id":103,"date":"2006-06-13T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=103"},"modified":"2006-06-14T06:50:46","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T11:50:46","slug":"email-writing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/email-writing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Writing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adminsupport.monster.com\/articles\/write_stuff\/?WT.mc_n=rss2005_DMM\" target=\"_blank\">Admins Must Have the Write Stuff<\/a> from monster.com provides excellent tips regarding proper email writing.  The topics seem to be applicable to blog writing too.<\/p>\n<p>Quick quiz for you &#8211; what is a homonym?  (answer below)<\/p>\n<p>I have broken almost all of their tips . . . recently.  Anyway, I found this fact interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"normalbold\"><strong>Use the Right Font:<\/strong><\/span> Most default fonts, like Times and Arial, are hard to read on screen. &#8220;You can cut down on missed typos by changing to Verdana,&#8221; suggests Peha. &#8220;It was specifically designed to be read on a computer monitor.&#8221; If your company requires a certain font, compose your text in Verdana and then change fonts just before printing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know that, but we do use Verdana often in our electronic communications (like our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Newsletter_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">quarterly email newsletter<\/a> &#8211; thought I would put a shameless plug in here in case you would like to subscribe).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many people mistakenly believe that business communication should be impersonal,&#8221; Peha says. &#8220;But that&#8217;s a prescription for not being read.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guilty on that one too.  Hopefully <em>The Higher Sense<\/em> is irreverant enough that it does not seem impersonal!  Lastly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems obvious, but most people don&#8217;t proofread their emails, and that can make you look lazy. Missing words and typos are an easy excuse for people to not take you seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I probably have spelling errors in this post.  I struggle with proofreading my own writing but do enjoy taking the red pen to the Select Metrix team.  Well, this is a good, quick read article with many practical tips &#8211; well worth the read.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I forgot this answer in the original post: <\/p>\n<p>Homonym = one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admins Must Have the Write Stuff from monster.com provides excellent tips regarding proper email writing. The topics seem to be applicable to blog writing too. Quick quiz for you &#8211; what is a homonym? (answer below) I have broken almost all of their tips . . . recently. Anyway, I found this fact interesting: Use the Right Font: Most default fonts, like Times and Arial, are hard to read on screen. &#8220;You can cut down on missed typos by changing to Verdana,&#8221; suggests Peha. &#8220;It was specifically designed to be read on a computer monitor.&#8221; If your company requires a certain font, compose your text in Verdana and then change&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/email-writing-tips\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-1F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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