Similarly, as the myriad of acronyms and abbreviations used in text-based chat become de rigueur for the tech-savvy, the rest of us are left scratching our heads.

To shed some light on the situation for both myself and my colleagues, I have found the following sites on the web:

• Internetiquette

• Top 10 Internet Etiquette Rules to Survive Online

• Internet Etiquette Tips for a Safe and Fun Online Experience

• Chat, Usenet, and Text Message Acronyms and Abbreviations

• The List of Chat Acronyms & Text Message Shorthand

What are your favourite netiquette and chat acronym websites?

tia :)

Maar eigenlijk wilde ik helemaal niet over geld of geld of wetten schrijven, en vroeg ik me iets heel anders af, over bloggen in Nederland:

De simpele vraag die ik me stel is: lezen ze bij de Volkskrant het Italiaanse RaiNews24, of lazen ze eerst over de 'Derde atoombom' op de Iraqi-bloggers-blog Streamtime?

Nella "Home" verranno visualizzati gli articoli (post) più recenti. Sarà quindi la parte più dinamica del sito, con novità e aggiornamenti mensili, se non addirittura settimanali, se non addirittura quotidiani, se non addirittura orari, a seconda del periodo e dei nostri impegni. Siamo in cinque, quindi sono previste novità abbastanza frequenti.

"Chi siamo" è una pagina di presentazione degli autori: qualcuno, nel suo spazio, segnala dove e come può essere rintracciato in rete, qualcun altro segnala una pagina personale con qualche informazione più dettagliata sulla sua esimia persona... dateci un sguardo, a vostra descrizione.

"Amministrazione" è uno spazio riservato agli autori del blog. È una pagina privata, quindi non accessibile agli utenti. È una pagina protetta da password (anche piuttosto stupida, in verità), non vi affannate a provare ad entrare perché non ci troverete nulla di interessante, o utile. È una pagina protetta, giusto per non farvi leggere le nostre comunicazioni di servizio.

La "Bacheca" è uno spazio aperto a commenti e segnalazioni dei lettori, completamente avulsi dai temi trattati dagli articoli del blog. Pregasi quindi, per saluti, consigli, insulti, reclami e per qualunque altra esigenza, di utilizzare questo spazio.

In "Netiquette" si possono trovare un insieme di regole per un civile confronto ed un buon utilizzo dello strumento blog e di questo blog in particolare. Garantiamo ovviamente il massimo della libertà di espressione, premesso un certo rispetto per tutti gli altri utenti. Ogni trasgressione sarà punita a nostro insindacabile giudizio... buhahahaha!

Ricordo infine che il blog è ancora in fase di lavori-in-corso: sono molto graditi commenti e consigli su come evolverlo e migliorarlo.

E mi raccomando: passate da Via Leonardo Da Vinci, 52 quando volete... un caffè non si nega a nessuno!

Andrea

Sincerely?

Kind Regards?

Kindest Regards?

All the best?

Best Wishes?

Best?

Love?

What's the best way to sign off when interacting with your website users?

My Tweet:

what's the best way to sign an email?...'kindest regards'..'kind regards'..'regards'..'best'...'sincerely' ..none of them feel right to me!

Majority vote 'Best' ...although I kinda like 'kissies!'

Here are the replies so far...

	kassy4 @meanius how about 'kissies!' hehehe
	pjrodriguez @meanius My wife does a ton of international correspondence and she always sings it "best" and then her initials.
	gwenbell @meanius I say "Love," ...and whether or not it is the most business-like thing to say, it's my preferred way to sign off...
	billjohnston @meanius I stick with Best... just because. Sincerely seems analog, and Thanks seems transactional. and we all know how I feel about Thx...
	anjali28 @meanius 'best' or 'best regards' are what i use usually...of course it depends on who the email is for!

O fato é que tal disposição permite uma série infinita de interrupções, das previstas às intrusivas que se impõem sobre suas prioridades independentemente de sua vontade. Em especial, as interrupções causadas pela busca incessante e avisos da chegada de novos emails em seu inbox, estão sendo apontadas como muito mais nociva do que imaginávamos, conforme artigo recente do American Journal of Psychiatry que identifica o habito excessivo de se comunicar, surfar e entreter-se na internet como uma doença mental que tem sintomas que afetam as relações humanas. De certa maneira, nos sentimos como no experimento de Pavlov, estimulados com avisos sonoros e visuais que nos despertam a curiosidade sugerindo a existência de algo potencialmente importante a um clique de distância.

Se você apesar de já estar acostumado com isto, quiser dar um basta nesta avalanche de interrupções. Sugerimos que você de um espaçamento maior entre os intervalos de recepção e envio de emails e consequentemente reduza o ritmo de chegada de emails ao seu computador, na forma abaixo:

No Outlook 2007.

1.   1. Clique em “Ferramentas”

2. Clique em “Opções”;

3. Selecione “configurar email”;

4  4.Clique em “Enviar/receber...”

5. 5.Caso não esteja selecionado ainda, clique no box de “agendar envio/recebimento automático a cada”. Preencha a caixa com um intervalo entre 30, 45, ou 60 minutos.

Assim, você controla o fluxo de entrada e saída dos seus emails ao contrário de responder a ele. Anula a grande incongruência da enxurrada de informações e passa a gerir suas atividades da forma mais conveniente e produtiva a seu alcance.

Finalmente, especialistas divergem em diversas pontos, mas são unânimes em uma única recomendação:

“Não lidem com emails nas suas horas mais produtivas, tão pouco quando estiverem focados nas prioridades de seu dia, mas sim nos intervalos de suas atividades principais, por um tempo determinado, entre 10 e 30 minutos, e dedicado exclusivamente a isto.”

Espero que todos tenham uma boa semana e fiquem a vontade para fazer seus comentários e solicitações de assuntos que lhes interesse.

Até breve.

Infocoach

infocoach@infocoach.org

I enjoyed the thought this article introduced to me to, "netiquette." So much of life in the real world is about ethics and I think the same should happen in the internet. People need to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong and stick by those decisions. Most people know it is wrong to read someone else's emails. Wrong to edit someone's work without their knowledge and wrong to plagiarize. If everyone stands by these few simple netiquettes I think the internet would be a much safer fun place to be.

Se você for como a imensa maioria dos usuários, provavelmente não gasta muito tempo pensando a respeito de como nomear seus arquivos quando os salva. Inclusive, se me permite um palpite, o faz quase automaticamente, numa fração de segundos. Naquele instante, com uma agenda cheia, a tarefa adiante é concluir o conteúdo do documento, enviá-la e aguardar a resposta, e assim o faz. Porém, infelizmente as coisas não são assim tão simples, e quando você menos espera, precisa daquele documento para incluir uma ou duas palavras que farão toda a diferença, ou pior ainda, seu chefe, está na sua frente e, adoraria redigir contigo uns pedaços do documento que julga extremamente relevantes.

Aí, começa aquela mini maratona em busca do arquivo, entra em Meus Documentos Recentes e não está lá, rapidamente abre a pasta Meus Documentos, olha, olha novamente e também não parece ser nenhum deles, abre um arquivo, abre outro. Desapareceu. Quando, finalmente, decide pesquisar e lembra: Qual era mesmo o nome do arquivo? Em que dia escrevi mesmo aquilo? E daí por diante,...

Problema freqüente, mas altamente evitável através da adoção de 4 truquezinhos básicos na nomeação de arquivos:

1. Sempre inclua o nome do destinatário no nome do arquivo.

Parece óbvio, mas você ficaria surpreso como a grande maioria não faz isto. A correspondência para um fornecedor não é a mesma que a de outro fornecedor, e isto já é um fator de diferenciação expressivo.

2. Sempre inclua a data do evento ou da confecção do documento.

A data, segundo muitos analistas, é o elemento mais significativo na identificação de um arquivo. Exageros a parte, sem dúvida alguma, juntamente com o nome do destinatário, exclui uma enormidade de opções nas pesquisas por arquivos.

3. Sempre inclua qual a natureza do documento.

Por natureza entendemos: convites, proposta, notas de reuniões, solicitação de informações, entre outras. Novamente, parece óbvio e certamente por esta razão deva estar sempre presente no nome de qualquer arquivo. Na pesquisa por um arquivo sobre “renovação de cadastro” ter a natureza no nome do arquivo excluirá automaticamente documentos de outras naturezas.

4. Decida por uma forma de disposição dos elementos do nome do arquivo e fique com ela.

Apesar de não ser um diferencial para reconhecimento, isto define a organização de seus arquivos nas pastas e também na ordem que aparecerão quando feita uma pesquisa. Como por exemplo:

Armazém_100908_proposta.doc;

proposta_Armazém_100908.doc ; ou

100908_proposta_ Armazém.doc.

Uma vez incorporado o hábito de nomear seus arquivos com o objetivo de torná-los facilmente recuperáveis, logo encontrará exatamente aquilo que funciona bem para você.

Boa semana, e caso deseje mais informações sobre o assunto, ou tenha outro tipo de dúvida fique a vontade para pensarmos juntos em soluções especiais para suas necessidades.

my-holidays

¡ Quanto o destinatário sabe sobre o assunto?

¡ Quais valores do destinatário que podem afetar a resposta?

¡ Qual a impressão que o destinatário tem a seu respeito?

¡ O que será necessário para convencer o destinatário a agir?

Espero que este artigo amplie suas chances de sucesso.

Caso tenha algum tema que gostaria que refletíssemos juntos, ficamos a disposição.

Até a próxima semana,

Infoco@ch

infocoach@infocoach.org

PS: Dica de lazer

jogo fascinante de advinhacao

http://www.devinettor.com/

usa um modelo de inteligencia artificial.

abrx

Knowing the netiquette you are less likely to make silly mistakes. I think knowing netiquette is important. You are less likely to make the kind of mistakes that will prevent you from making friends, if you follow a few basic rules. You have a standard of behavior that you follow in real life, so you need to remember that when you are online.  There are plenty of sites that can guide you on how not to offend in cyberspace. You can even go to http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html to get a core list of rules for netiquette.

Since so many of us communicate through e-mail now a days, it is important to know what we are doing right and what we may not understand is offending someone. If you go to http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3374832.ece , there is an article dedicated to talking about the subject with different links for different aspects. There are links to just about anything in cyberspace from basic guides, guides on blogging, e-mailing, to dating. With so many different sites talking about netiquette, there is obviously a need for making sure they are not offending someone by the way they type something.

Você ficará surpreso com a quantidade de emails que podem ser tratados em menos de um minuto. Sempre temperados com foco e diligência. Caso queira contribuir, são todos muito bem-vindos e aguardamos ansiosos suas dicas e comentários.

Like some others I have been reading and watching activity in the forums. Keith Lyons has a great post on his blog - swimming with dolphins, sharks and dead people is such a good metaphor for what's going on. The trouble is that when you're all in the water together, its the sharks that you keep your eye on, because despite Stephen's reassurance that blogs provide calmer, safer waters for swimming in, the sharks do make occasional forays into the blogs, where they can do a 'hit and run' more easily than in the forums.

To be honest, I haven't been aware of many dolphins. It all feels very intense, both in the forums and in the blogs. Where are the laughs? I did mention in a previous post that I thought a 'Help' forum might be useful for the 'technologically challenged'. Maybe we also need a 'Cafe' - a purely social space or something equivalent. But I suspect that a 'Cafe' or even a 'Help' forum is more of a course component than a network component.

This thinking about emotion and learning was prompted by Ailsa's post. One of her sentences brought me up sharp - 'Staying silent with bullies, condones the activity.'  From my teaching days I know how hard it is to deal with bullies - a veritable minefield. For a start it's difficult to define 'bullying' - but given that I have been thinking a lot about issues such as Netiquette in relation to this course, Ailsa's post made me think again about the responsibilities we have to each other in a learning network. Do we have any? Can this be overlooked in a network? It is certainly not normally overlooked in a course or in a community, where the role of emotion in learning and the relationship between learning and emotion and how they shape each other is acknowledged and resulting issues addressed.

My feeling is that it's in these sorts of issues that connectivism differs from other theories of learning, but I need to do much more reading and thinking before I can articulate this clearly.

Well, that important milestone has been achieved.

The actual hate mail is provided below, but the important question for now is: how do you identify that this particular hate mail is by a retard? What makes you qualified to judge a particular mail as from an intelligent person and a particular mail as from a retard?

Well, no one ever accused me of being illogical, so in public interest, I present:

The 4 distinctive signs of hate mail by a retard:

1. He won't read the post properly before commenting on it

The retard is in such a hurry to make his point that he doesn't actually have the time to read the post he's commenting on.

2. He won't actually make a single logical point in support of his stand

The retard is so pissed off by what he reads that he is (literally) speechless. That of course creates a problem (because he has to write something in a hate mail) so he compensates by being really pissed off. He is so busy writing "I hate you" and "you suck" that he won't actually provide any points to support his statements.

3. He will pepper his mail with abuses

We all know the internet is the place to discover new profanity. Anonymous profanity packs about as much punch as a fluffy cotton pillow.

4. He can't spell

Inevitable if you learn your english from internet chat rooms.

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Well, on to the actual hate mail. This particular piece was sent in response to my Linkin Park Post. The transcript of the mail has been censored to remove profanities (It is a family blog after all).

u <profanity> i like about 10 bands but my fav is linkin park ur right there is much material to listen too but lp is the best u can <profanity> and listen to high school musical shit while <profanity><profanity><profanity>.u r the one that has to <profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity>.never insult lp ur opinion is as bad as <profanity>.and btw linkin park is coolerthan <profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity>dont post this shit if u dont wanna get flamed by lp fans im a fan since hybrid theory a hardcore lp fan i love their music numb,in the end,what ive done, crawling, papercut,faint and the list goes on and on.i swear i would<profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity><profanity>

Observe how this noble beast fulfils all 4 criteria.

• Gesticular: algunos más, otros menos

• Respetar un conjunto de reglas: básicamente para que el esté escuchando no nos mande a pasear de una. Estas reglas implican no gritar (o hacerlo sólo cuando es necesario...), manejarse con un lenguaje adecuado (más de un jugador de fútbol desconoce totalmente esta regla), etc.

Al momento de comunicarse en Internet o alguna otra red, por ejemplo en correos, mensajería instantánea o foros, también tenemos la opción de gesticular y respetar ciertas reglas (entre ellas también gritar cuando es necesario).

Esta serie de reglas de comunicación en Internet se encuentran en un documento muy bueno para leerlo por lo menos una vez: la Netiquette.

Lo encontramos en el siguiente link: http://www.netiqueta.org

La versión en pdf: Netiquette

I don't know if you don't know that to use all capitals (caps) when you write a comment means that you're shouting. Maybe you do know and you use them because you think you need to shout, but I'd like to point something out to you.

We don't read your messages and comments because it's a pain in the proverbial arse to do so. Using all caps makes it more of an eye strain to read your comment, and you know... I'm over 40, have worn glasses or contact lenses since I was nine, and really don't need my poor sight to progress any more than it has because you don't know any internet etiquette.

Oh, this isn't just about the people who comment here at my own blog. No, this is for you who comment everywhere and anywhere. You know what happens when I'm reading a thread of comments at a newsmagazine following a really good article and then wham... come across your all-caps entry?

I skip it.

It hurts my eyes and it seems to me if you can't take the time to learn how to communicate online, then why should I read what you have to say? That might be a fine solution, only then the next poor sod commenter (and the next, and the next) do read you because they're far too considerate. Sometimes they even comment about what you wrote... and then you know what?

I can't follow the conversation because I didn't fraccing read you.

So please... learn how to use the internet if you're going to comment. From Wikipedia (but also corroborated here and here...)

"This form of typography also appears in on-line forums. It was once an inevitable byproduct of using machines with limited support for lowercase text (such as certain dumb terminals, early Apple II models), but as full support of ASCII became standard, it became solely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour. As a result, netiquette generally discourages the use of all caps."

Shouting at people is rude.

Hurting their eyes is rude.

Why do you do it? If you want your words to have emphasis, learn some basic html and italicize a word or two. When you capitalize everything, it's no different than not capitalizing anything. We still don't know what you want emphasized.

So it seems, since there is no logical reason to do it, that you must be doing it because you're either unaware of how to comment online, or you're rude. I don't care which it is, just please stop it. People will read you, people won't treat you like you're dumb, and you'll find that suddenly, this commenting thing online is way more fun than it was before. People will answer you, converse with you and life will be good.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope this has helped.

Regards,

Fracas

But when you actually stop and sit back after hitting the send button, have you ever wondered why on earth you forgot to mention something important? Or how you should have signed off with "regards" instead of "with love" to a new client?

There is a term used for Internet and email etiquette - "Netiquette".  Here is what it's all about.
Although there are no rules governing email etiquette, we are all well aware of what a rude or distasteful email looks like.  We also know how we prefer to receive emails so here are some tips to email etiquette.

* Re-read and then re-read once again before sending an email. It's obvious, but so few people do it.
* Send it to the right person and keep personal emails for your personal home life.
* DO NOT USE ALL CAPITALS – As this is considered to be shouting and is quite rude.
* Don’t end sentences with !!!!! or ???? one is enough!!!!
* Be aware of how big your file attachments are. Don’t send emails to people that are 50MB it just clogs up their   servers and takes for ever.
* Compress big files to make them smaller, using ZIP, or RAR
* Always use a subject line – Most email clients and spam filters will put your email in the junk mail if you don’t   and it really just makes it easier for everyone involved to search for the email they need.
* Don’t send chain letters or “make money fast” messages.
* Don’t criticize peoples spelling, it’s considered petty.
* Check the tone. Please, thank you, exclamation marks when ending sentences on a lighter note, perhaps even an   emoticon or two, all add to the tone and manner of the email.
* Spelling, grammar, punctuation are all important aspects of a professional email.
* Keep it snappy and concise. There is nothing worse than scrolling down five pages to get to the point.
* Do trim any quoted message down as mush as possible.
* Do be polite with pleases and thankyou’s
* Do tell people the format of any attachments you send if they are anything other than standard Microsoft office file types.
  Irony and humour can be difficult to express, so be careful how you use it.

If we all begin to follow the rules of Netiquette, the world might become a more well-mannered place.

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