Detail ways to improve mediated communication skills for e-mail and mobile phone usage

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E-mail
Give your email a context. Don't just write "FYI" or "Hi" in the subject field; let the recipient know specifically what you're writing about. This is especially important in work contexts. Because of the status-leveling effects of email, people many more messages now than they ever did by telephone, so they want to know the subjects of those messages.
- Address the recipient appropriately. If the recipient is your professor, address him or her by title unless you are securely on a first-name basis. It's always better to err on the formal side rather than the informal. Abruptly starting with "Hey!", "Hi there," or "I need to talk with you about my grade" is not respectful.
- Check your spelling carefully. Sending emails full of typos and grammar mistakes, or written like a text message, communicates a lack of respect for yourself and the recipient.
Mobile Phone
Don't yell. The average person talks three times louder on a cell phone than they do in a FtF conversation.
- Put your phone on vibrate only at workâ€"especially in cube environments. Ringtones of any sort, comic or not, are really distracting and can be really obnoxious.
- Don't ignore universal quiet zones such as the theater, church, the library, and funerals.
- Do be a good dining companion. No one wants to sit in silence while their dining companion texts with someone. Always silence and store your phone before being seated. Never put your cell phone on the table.