We will be studying how communication is an important part of your success not only in getting the job, but in succeeding at it. Each week, there will be an assignment related to the textbook reading and lecture. Read the postings by your classmates as well as posting your own response.
Between now and 5 p.m. Friday, April 10, enter a comment on this post. Your comment can be as simple as "hello everyone" or as detailed as you wish. See the instructions on the right side of the screen if you are new to blogging. For this week only, you will receive five points for participation. The goal is to be sure you are registered and able to participate on this blog before the formal blogging assignments begin in Week 2 (April 13 through April 17). Once the formal assignments begin, you will be able to earn up to 10 points depending on the quality of your response. Feel free to scroll down and click on "archives" to see what other students in previous classes have written.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Week 6, Presentations (final blog assignment)
Describe an effective presentation that you attended in person. This can be a meeting, a workshop, a training session, or anything where one person presented information to a group of three or more people in a business setting. In your opinion, was it effective? Why or why not? Did the speaker use visual aids such as slides, handouts, or other objects? If so, were they effective? What would you have done differently?
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Week 5, Chapter 5: Communicating in person, in meetings, by telephone and digitally
Read the following article titled, “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean” by Steve Pinker at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659772,00.html Describe your reaction to the article, and how what you’ve learned from it can be applied to the workplace. Be specific.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Week 4, Chapter 4: Routine Email Messages and Memos
Should companies have the right to monitor employees’ email and instant messages? Explain why or why not. Also, are there some factors you think would change your opinion, such as if the company had a clearly written policy that all employees had to sign? Any other factors that might affect the issue?
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Week 3, Chapter 3: Communicating Across Cultures
Give an example from your own life, either personal or professional, where you interacted with someone from another culture. Was the interaction effective, i.e. did the message result in appropriate action or response? If no, how could the communication have been improved? If yes, what made the communication work?
Note that this week’s assignment as well as those to follow will be worth a maximum of ten points: up to five points for appropriate and respectful responses that fully address the issue and up to five for grammatical and error-free writing.
Note that this week’s assignment as well as those to follow will be worth a maximum of ten points: up to five points for appropriate and respectful responses that fully address the issue and up to five for grammatical and error-free writing.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Week 2, Introduction to blogging
We will be studying how communication is an important part of your success not only in getting the job, but in succeeding at it. Each week, there will be an assignment related to the textbook reading and lecture. Read the postings by your classmates as well as posting your own response.
Between now and 5 p.m. Friday, January 16, enter a comment on this post. Your comment can be as simple as "hello everyone" or as detailed as you wish. See the instructions on the right side of the screen if you are new to blogging. For this week only, you will receive five points for participation. The goal is to be sure you are registered and able to participate on this blog before the formal blogging assignments begin in Week 3 (January 19 through January 23). Once the formal assignments begin, you will be able to earn up to 10 points depending on the quality of your response. Feel free to scroll down and click on "archives" to see what other students in previous classes have written.
Between now and 5 p.m. Friday, January 16, enter a comment on this post. Your comment can be as simple as "hello everyone" or as detailed as you wish. See the instructions on the right side of the screen if you are new to blogging. For this week only, you will receive five points for participation. The goal is to be sure you are registered and able to participate on this blog before the formal blogging assignments begin in Week 3 (January 19 through January 23). Once the formal assignments begin, you will be able to earn up to 10 points depending on the quality of your response. Feel free to scroll down and click on "archives" to see what other students in previous classes have written.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Posting by jenny
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/peer-to-peer-telephone-service
I found this article on nytimes.com. It is about a telephone service over the internet using computers. The difference with this service and others is that Ooma carrys the calls over the internet and then completes the call using regular telephone service. But people only have to pay for local charges, [and] this service will eliminate long distance charges. It's kinda interesting to see how technology has changed in the last few years. Personally I wish that technology would stop changing. People keep coming up with things that are newer and better than the last. I think that is people keep doing this that we are eventually gonna be able to communicate without actually communicating. Almost like a science fiction movie or book. The cars are gonna change and the phone service and the television, soon it will be a completly different world. I thought this article was interesting because I was aware of the new service of calling on the internet to replace the telephone butI was not aware of this. It is also interesting that is how expensive it sounds to me. I would almost rather not have a way to talk on the phone than pay $399.00. I hope you find this article as interesting as I did.
by Jenny
I found this article on nytimes.com. It is about a telephone service over the internet using computers. The difference with this service and others is that Ooma carrys the calls over the internet and then completes the call using regular telephone service. But people only have to pay for local charges, [and] this service will eliminate long distance charges. It's kinda interesting to see how technology has changed in the last few years. Personally I wish that technology would stop changing. People keep coming up with things that are newer and better than the last. I think that is people keep doing this that we are eventually gonna be able to communicate without actually communicating. Almost like a science fiction movie or book. The cars are gonna change and the phone service and the television, soon it will be a completly different world. I thought this article was interesting because I was aware of the new service of calling on the internet to replace the telephone butI was not aware of this. It is also interesting that is how expensive it sounds to me. I would almost rather not have a way to talk on the phone than pay $399.00. I hope you find this article as interesting as I did.
by Jenny
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