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 company based in Nashville, Tennessee, calls the app it created the biggest improvement to electronic mail since the time automatic spell check was invented. In fact, the application is only one antifaceof 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 fight at the office, how would he react?). The software will use your responses to create a portrait of the person you are communicating with.
Ο founder of Crystal, 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 short messages on mobile, like "hello baby, how was your day?" and I miss you".
Applications like Crystal and the rest are approaching a very modern problem: the huge volume of electronic communication we have to manage every day. According to one study, workers spend 28% of their time in order to read the e-mails they receive. Another study, published last year, estimates that the time spent by physicians at the Pennsylvania State University Medical School to read the emails they receive costs 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, Sweden is trying to build an email navigator that will record user behavior by noting which emails they ignore and how they spend their time on email in general so that the app recommends the most interesting emails.
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
