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NETIQUETTEIQ
A Comprehensive Guide
to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email
Babicki, Paul
CreateSpace (264 pp.)
$18.95 paperback
ISBN: 978-1481849524; September 14,
2013
BOOK REVIEW
A revealing primer on the art of
effective emails and other communications.
Babicki, in his debut self-help guide,
covers the many peculiarities of computerized messaging: How to shape aneye-catching subject line; how to
troubleshoot error messages from a returned email; what the file-extension
suffixes on attachments mean; what the email time
stamp tells others about your personality (night owl vs. early riser); and how
to craft a corporate email security
policy. His advice on these sometimes-arcane topics is precise—“RTF format should only be used when it is certain that
the recipient uses Outlook”—while also remaining intelligible to laypeople. The author also instructs readers on
time-honored principles of proper English and clear expression. He delves with
detailed lucidity into rules of grammar,
punctuation and usage; prescribes the proper formatting of numbers and dates;
and inveighs against the dangling
participle. He also explores the tonal shadings of different kinds of
salutations, crusades for concise and gracious style, warns
against the gassy redundancy of such wordings as “final outcome” and “at an
early time,” and appends a blacklist of “the
most irritating phrases,” from “out of the box” to “team player.” Good writing
grows from good thinking, so he
instructs readers on the pitfalls of logical fallacies, from the ad hominem
attack to the begged question, and on the
distinctions between assumption, presumption and inference. Furthermore, since communication is the cornerstone of
civilized life, he limns its legal and moral underpinnings in copyright and plagiarism strictures, codes of
courteous Internet deportment and techniques for pacifying flame wars. (He
recommends a “Zen” approach, for example, in
replying to angry missives.) The result is a mashup of Strunk and White, Miss Manners, Aristotle and Microsoft Help,
all laid out in a well-organized, very readable text sprinkled with amusing examples and phrased in the tart,
aphoristic style of an exacting schoolmaster (“The better it sounds, the more
it is trusted”). Overall, Babicki’s
technical expertise and literary aplomb make this a fine manual for the
everyday scribe.A comprehensive, stimulating guide to getting the word
out.
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In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ
has a website with great
assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the
premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to
Improve,
Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super
Charge
Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been
published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for
young people. You can view my
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Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.
In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo. I am also a
member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and
Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman
Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been
contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and PSG of Mercer County, NJ.
Additionally, I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems,
a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email,
network management software, security products and professional
services. Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.
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