Email Netiquette Rules

Kristy
Email netiquette is important in both your professional and private life.

Email netiquette is important in both your professional and private life.

Email is a daily part of most people’s lives. Email netiquette can be different from everyday etiquette or even everyday writing.

These email netiquette rules will help you effectively communicate through email without causing offense.

Email Subject Line: Do not leave the email subject line blank. The subject line is very helpful if the email recipient has to dig through old emails to find something.

Chain Letters: Do not forward chain letters. If you think your friend would enjoy a joke, you can forward it, but do this sparingly.

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Aug
8

How to Search Google : Simple Tricks

Kristy

One of the most important things to learn about the internet is how to search efficiently.  Google is the leading search engine in the United States.  Learn how to search Google and you can find anything you could possibly want to read about or learn.



There are some tricks you can learn that will allow you to search Google much more efficiently.  If you don’t know how to search Google efficiently, you could find yourself wasting time wallowing through tons of websites instead of reading the content you need.

Here are the highlights from the above video, “How to Search Google : Simple Tricks”.

  • Use quotation marks to tell Google you want to search for that exact phrase
  • Use the + sign to add another keyword and further refine your search
  • If you are unsure which keyword would be best, you can use OR to search Google for them all
  • Use the – sign to remove certain keywords or sites from the Google search results (example. -.org would remove all .org websites from your Google search results)
Aug
8