{"id":548,"date":"2014-09-05T00:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highlandscouncilpta.org\/?p=548"},"modified":"2014-09-06T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T18:30:30","slug":"email-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Email Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are four ways and only four ways in which we have contact with the world. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

What we do, how we look, what we say and how we say it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Educator<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thoughts on e-communicating and e-manners:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. E-mail is <\/span>forever<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/span>.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Always assume your e-mail can be forwarded..\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to anyone, anywhere, indefinitely.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Change the subject line title when the subject has changed. Also, reference a school name in the subject line. Many PTA volunteers are involved with two or more schools.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Avoid criticizing and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153correcting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when \u00e2\u20ac\u0153replying to all\u00e2\u20ac\u2122; direct your constructive criticism through a separate e-mail.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reply All\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wisely and sparingly. Give careful thought to what you say to the larger audience <\/span>and <\/i><\/span>avoid overloading your friends\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 inboxes.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use bad language (Refer to 1 & 2 )<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gossip, defame, or otherwise bad-mouth people in e-mail. (again, 1 & 2 )<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Do share the good PTA news with parent lists, such as accomplishments, awards, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Do spread the word when your school has reached a significant goal or benchmark.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Use tools available to protect the privacy of your mail recipients, such as blind copying.\"\"<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Assure that only those who need to read your mail are the ones who receive it.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Before clicking \u00e2\u20ac\u0153send\u00e2\u20ac\u009d take a breath and double \u00e2\u20ac\u201ccheck details.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Resist the urge to fire off quick e-mails requesting information you could easily look up on your own. Have fundamental PTA resources like rosters at hand.<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Think twice about casual forwarding of those oh-so-cute whimsical e-mails jokes, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inspirations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They can really add up. Also, some PTA friends may not share your views about non-schools topics.<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Do not use your PTA e-mail lists to advertise business-related opportunities or to solicit business contacts. Not only is it bad manners and an invasion of privacy, it is out of compliance with PTA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s non-commercial policy.<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Avoid one-word or two-word answers. Be clear; be specific.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are four ways and only four ways in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: What we do, how we look, what we say and how we say it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Educator Thoughts on e-communicating and e-manners: E-mail is forever. Always assume your… Read More »Email Etiquette<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}