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* HIGH HUMILITY QUOTIENT: I spent a great deal of time creating the
January issue of Communication Expressway. Other deadlines loomed,
and I allowed myself get pushed into a "rush" mode.
When filling out the form to send the e-zine to you, I left out
the
Subject Line information, and a default sub-heading, "jethro," went
in the area instead.
I overlooked one of the most important aspects of the e-zine: good
communication. What's that phrase about haste making waste? You'll
find the last issue at www.ossweb.com/ezine-archive-2.html
* WINDOWS KEY KEYSTROKE TIPS: Thanks to Karen Ann Drebes
of Sources for Sources, Inc. www.source4sources.com, here
are a few popular keystroke tips for those with the Windows key on
their keyboards:
- Winkey (alone) displays Taskbar and Start menu
- Winkey + F = Finds files or folders
- Winkey + Tab = Cycles through the Taskbar buttons
- Winkey + E = Opens Explorer
- Winkey + R = Opens Run
- Winkey + M = Minimizes all open windows
- Winkey + M + Shift= maximizes all open windows
* NO MORE NORTHERN LIGHT: Northern Light closes its search
engine to
the public on January 16.
* TOP TEN WEB SITES: If you want to analyze the components of an
effective Web site, you might want to bookmark this article. Andrew
Starling, using ratings offered by Nielsen/ NetRatings and Jupiter
Media Metrix, looks at fonts, colors, links, navigation, titles, page
width, JavaScript, CSS and file size.
"Through analysing this convergence," he says, "we can come up
with a
set of 'best practice' guidelines, based on the principle that if the
Web's most successful sites do things a certain way, there's a good
chance it's the best way to do it.
"Since Web designers are rebels at heart, it's unlikely that
anybody
will turn these guidelines into firm rules that must be slavishly
obeyed. But in any art form, rebellion usually works best when you
know the conventions and are aware that you're breaking them."
http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/TopTen2001/
* WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS COMMUNICATION LEVEL?
Don't miss this excellent article by Martin Lindstrom: It's the
detail
that counts: www.clickz.com/brand/brand_mkt/article.php/954261
* SURVEY Don't forget to take this month's brief survey at
www.ossweb.com/survey2.html.
It asks what you would do if you received a somewhat confusing
e-mail.
ARCHIVES FOR ALL COMMUNICATION EXPRESSWAY ISSUES
http://www.ossweb.com/ezine-archive-index.html
Questions, comments, recommendations?
Contact Judy Vorfeld at
www.ossweb.com.contact.html
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