Tag: etiquette

In this digital age, where businesses no longer depend on travel or email alone to reach clients, online meetings have become part of the daily work routine. However, some professionals are still concerned about conducting an online meeting efficiently; how to act when the camera is on, or how to av ...

Technology

How Cell Phone Etiquette Is Different Around The World [Infographic]

You probably haven't thought about this before, but manners are generational. What I mean is different generations think different things are rude or inappropriate. I could probably list five or ten of those types of things off the top of my head just based on what my mother thinks is rude. For the ...

Mind Your Manners: Social Media Hashtag Etiquette [Infographic]

I remember learning about Twitter hashtags back in 2009, and after they became popular, the former 'pound sign' was never the same again. Now that Facebook supports hashtags, and users are using them on other sites too, hashtags have become an integral part of the whole social media experience. If h ...

Twitter Etiquette Guide To Increase Your Retweets [Infographic]

Is there really a way to increase the number of retweets you receive? There certainly is! It just might not be the insane increase you want. Twitter is a complex ecosystem, and if you don't know what you are doing, you can easily waste days without even receiving a single retweet from your following ...

Technology

Online Etiquette Cheat Sheet For Facebook, Twitter, Email & IM

There are plenty of online trolls out there who will make it their objective to lower your self esteem on the Internet. Sometimes it's a way for them to get attention, and other times they simply want to get their message across. There is really no way to shield yourself from it. It's everywhere, an ...

The Age Old Question About Following Back On Twitter

Debra Devita

Yes, I am one of THOSE people, I don't follow every single person back on Twitter. It's not that I think I am better than anybody else. That is not the case at all. I also don't do it to offend people either. I reply to and interact with all of the people who take the time to follow me, and I apprec ...

Geek

Cell Phone Etiquette: Don’t Be A Jerk [Infographic]

Some people who buy a cell phone don't realize that with it comes a responsibility. Just because you have one, it doesn't mean you can use it whenever you want to without paying some respect to the people around you. I personally have a really hard time understanding people who bust out their cell ...

Lifestyle

12 Signs Your Girl Might Be High Maintenance

I was talking to my girlfriend on the phone the other night, and somehow we got on the topic of what it means to be a girl that is "high maintenance." I'm the first to admit that I don't particularly like that phrase when it describes a human being. I mean, normally my dog, my garden (if I had one ...

Design

The Ultimate Bad Breath Detector

I'm a complete fanatic about having fresh breath. I eat mints like they were my last meal, and I keep a toothbrush and toothpaste in my car. You can never be too sure, right? To me, there is almost nothing worse in a guy than disgusting breath (ok, I can think of one or two things worse, but bad ...

Technology

Phone Kerchief: Block Your Cell Phone From Ringing During Dinner

Throughout the years, since the cell phone was introduced into our lives, a sort of etiquette has slowly been formed about when it's appropriate to use it, and when it isn't. There are still times though where we use our phones even though a lot of people find it annoying and offensive. The most o ...

10 Reasons Not To Block Someone On Twitter

One of the most ingenious aspects of Twitter is that if someone is annoying you or being rude, you can simply unfollow them or even block them. I have blocked my fair share of people, and most of the time I’ve done it without giving it a second thought. Blocking someone is strange because it’s l ...

Twitter 101 | A Refresher In @ Replies

I decided to write this article after my very dear friend Tina @CtKscribe and I were talking yesterday about how we are seeing more and more people on Twitter that seem to not understand how the @ replies work. We thought a quick refresher course might help a lot of newcomers to Twitter as well as b ...

This Should Be Considered a Twitter Crime

Most people I have talked to say that their biggest Twitter pet peeve is when someone sends them an automated direct message. Those actually don’t bother me anymore, I’ve grown strangely used to them and I just hit delete, not much aggravation or effort required there. However, I have a Twitter ...

How To: Not Suck At Writing Tweets