18 Sep 11 Why E-mail Has Replaced Postal Mail?
Email has blessed this technological era with pace, convenience, ease. In all developed places email technology has almost replaced postal mail sending. Postal mail sending is still relevant for sending stuffs, big packages and to remote places where internet has not reached yet. There are plenty of reasons why email has surpassed postal mail service. Here are some of the reasons below.
Before you blink it’s delivered
Yes, email is a potent mail service which delivers your mail to the recipient even before you blink. The main thing which makes email technology such popular is its speed of delivery. Within few seconds your mail will reach into the inbox of a person sitting thousands of miles away from you. It takes only few seconds to pass on a piece of good news, to send across ‘thank you’ note, to convey heart-breaking news, to express love to someone close to your heart, to crack a business deal, to send across wedding invitation to dear friends. Just type a message, attach files, write email address and press the ‘send’ button. Within seconds it’s gone. Such fast messaging has enabled work on Internet, between distant parties where people communicate through emails and respond to each other immediately after mail receipt.
One and for all
Unlike letters, where your letter can reach only one person or one place at a time; email has indeed made life easier by allowing multiple recipient option. You may send mail to a person, and just by mentioning other email addresses in Bcc, cc you can send the same mail to multiple people at the same time and that too within few minutes. You need not write separately to each of them.
It is beyond a letter
Email communication is much beyond typed out text. One can send multiple things along with text in mail’s body. Right from images, video, audio files, word file, power point presentation, excel sheet, PDF file – one can attach anything and everything with a mail before pressing the ‘send’ button. One can scan documents and send images of important documents like passport, certificate.
Anytime, anywhere
Unlike postal mail which you may miss out many times if you are not at home; you can send and receive emails from anywhere at any time of the day. Since most of us can access mailbox from personal phone, laptop, tablets sending and receiving mail has become indeed easy.
Are you still clinging to the traditional old postal mail service? Well, you are really missing out speed of life then. Catch up, start communicating through emails.
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12 Mar 11 Are Canadians Shunning Digital World?
If a recent research report released by comScore is to be believed, this appears to be the case. Or does it indicate something else? A mere shift in the preference, not a complete change of plan?
The research found that, the year on year (YoY) growth of e-mail consumption(unique visitors) in Canada is negative between December 2009 and December 2010. In December 2009, 12 million Canadians used one or another form of e-mail sites, whereas, only 10 million did so in the same month in 2010, which is a 28% decline (see image below to see the e-mail site usage trajectory).
The research has suggested that not only unique e-mail viewership has gone down, but the e-mail engagement has significantly fallen down. The total visits to email websites from Canada has fallen in the fourth quarter of 2010(500 million) from its position in the same quarter in 2009 (650 million). The total visit fell by 18%
The time spent on e-mail sites has also seen a decline. From 5.9 million in the studied period in 2009, it has fallen to 5.2 million in the same period in 2010, which is 11% decline in e-mail minutes. (See the image below for details).
It is hard to draw any conclusion from the above data, unless overall activity of Canadian net users is studied. It might be possible that people have reduced the use of e-mail sites and substituted it with social sites (read Facebook). I must add here that Facebook has also unveiled its own email program ([email protected]). Could it be responsible for the shift?
Not very unlikely! What is your view on this?
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16 Oct 10 3 Job Interview Tips for Busy Professionals
Most of the articles I read on the topic of job interviews are targeted towards either an absolute fresher, or to someone who is going through a career crisis. And every time I see any such article, I found myself asking what about the regular folks who want to switch job for better salary and better opportunity? And in one of those moments, I decided to write this article that will help regular employed people to effectively search for a decent job that pays more salary than what they are drawing now.
Do not schedule any important meeting on the interview day
This is to be done to stop you from messing up either of the two, and to keep your mind uncluttered on the very day. An important meeting scheduled on the day of interview will engross a significant part of your thinking brain, which will distract you during the interview as well. You should, therefore, avoid scheduling anything important on the interview day.
Do not use office mail for communication
I know you follow this, but still I felt like telling you that never ever use the e-mail ID given by your company to schedule or fix a meeting. This could spell bad luck for your existing job, which I presume you do not want to lose, unless you get something solid on hand.
Negotiate as much as you can
The best part of searching for a new job when you already have one is the fact that you can bargain with the prospective employer from a position of strength. Unlike a fresher who needs a job then and there, you do not have that urgency as you already have a job. You should, therefore, try to get the job on your terms. This is very much possible.
Being already employed, you already know the tricks of an interview meeting, so I left them out of this article, and instead mentioned those that are relevant for you alone, and not for a fresher. You must put these tips in use.
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