If you are not a very communicative type, do not be disappointed. In a short time you will have at your disposal an entire arsenal consisting of all those online tools needed to turn communication into an art and develop your skills. So let's go: Attractive emails.
The truth is that if you expect to respond to your e-mail, you need to add at least one emoticon, as the smiles or non-faces that contribute to electronic communication. This is at least advised by Crystal, according to a recent report by New Scientist.
Crystal Knows, a new one company based in Nashville, Tennessee, touts the app it created as the biggest improvement to email since automatic spell checking was invented. In fact, the app is just one representative of the new generation of tools that promise to make us communicate more effectively. The operation of the application is rather simple. It is enough to initially inform the system who is the person you want to communicate with. The application, after doing a thorough research on what the potential recipient of the letter has posted on the Internet, mainly on social media, will present you with a comprehensive list of proposals using some tests that investigate the five big personality traits. That way it will help you write it Email in such a way as to have the best possible response.
For an email to the editor, the app suggests I avoid standard greetings and don't burden him with things he's heard a thousand times before. On the contrary, for the email to my partner, the application suggests that I make fun of myself, while for those who email me first, it suggests placing an emoticon.
You can also answer some questions about the recipient of your letter (If there was a quarrel in the office, how would you react?). The software will use your answers to create a portrait of the person you are communicating with.
Crystal founder Drew D'Agostino believes the app will enable people who work together, primarily, to build better relationships and more effective communication. “We all have some level of anxiety when sending emails. Crystal does not help you as if it were a robot to manage all of your emails. It helps you understand how they write such letters and how people communicate."
Techniques to handle excessive volume of information
There are other tools you can use in your online contacts. The Emotional Labor Brewer Extension, created by Gin McNeil, will fill the Email with exclamation marks, smiling faces and tender words, a kind of linguistic sugar that you can sprinkle with the push of a button.
Also, the more abstract can download BroApp, a program that will send your partner soon messages on mobile, like "hey baby, how was your day?" and I miss you".
Apps like Crystal and others approach a very modern problem: the sheer volume of electronic communication we deal with every day. According to one study, employees spend 28% of their time reading the emails they receive. Another study, which was published last year, estimates that the time spent by its doctors medicineof Pennsylvania State University faculty to read the emails they receive costs about a million dollars.
According to the research that has been done, we should find ways to filter our emails more effectively so that we only spend time on what interests us. The Teller company in Stockholm its Swedens is trying to build an e-mail navigator that will record the user's behavior by noting which e-mails he ignores and more generally how he spends his time in e-mail so that the application recommends the most interesting e-mails.
A new company from Chicago, Charlie, offers another method of managing the excessive amount of information available on the Internet. Instead of having to do a lot of research on Google, the app will let you know about your new acquaintances. In particular, the application "combs" your calendar on Google for future appointments and then searches the Internet for information about the people who will participate in them. The day before the meeting, the app delivers you a folder with all the information you need. According to co-founder Aaron Frazin, Charlie helps you make a good impression. If, for example, he mentions that your new client is a big fan of the Chicago Camps, you might find a way to talk about baseball during the meeting. If the company you work with has tweeted about a new product, you will probably remember it and congratulate them on the new product. "Technology speeds up communication. "This means that we need to adapt and make sure that the discussion is as productive as possible." difficult to understand from a few posts on Facebook and Twitter.
Source: THE DAILY
