This week in Business Certificate lll, we talked about emails at work,
spam and social networking sites. We
watched a power point presentation on sending and receiving emails at work. We
had to think about things such as why most staff have log in procedures at
work, how you could deal with urgent; confidential; personal or suspicious
emails received at work, what you must consider before sending an email at work
or if your company can read your emails on your personal account.
We also talked about how you would deal with different types of
emails. I have listed a couple below and
how to deal with them.
Urgent emails are usually ones that need to be read straight away. They
may have a red box or flag next to it to show it’s a high priority email. If you need to send an urgent email to
someone, it’s always best to follow up with a phone call letting that person
know you’ve sent them an email, just in case they are not at their computer or
they are in a meeting.
A few points to consider if you think an email may be suspicious are;
Ø
Do you know the person sending the email?
Ø Is
it a strange email address asking for personal information?
Ø Is
it listed to a unclosed recipient?
Ø May
be sent to junk folder.
Ø Suspicious
file type.
Ø
Does the email make sense? Is there broken English?
We then went on to look at what spam was and how to manage it. Did you know spam has it’s own Act called
Spam Act 2003? There are three main
rules when it comes to spam, which are; consent, identity and unsubscribe.
Consent
All commercial messages sent electronically must have your consent
before sending any. There are two types
of consent and these are express consent and inferred consent.
Express consent is when you have intentionally opted to receive
messages from a certain company or sender.
Inferred consent is when you have an existing relationship with the
sender and because of this, they can send you electronic messages. For example, you may have subscribed to a
magazine, and because of this, they think it’s alright to send to massages.
All commercial messages sent to you electronically MUST have
identification which is clear and accurate which you can see. This identification must include how you can
contact the sender.
Unsubscribe.
All electronic messages must have a link where someone can go to
unsubscribe, which means they must not send you electronic messages any longer.
Remember, if you receive a spam email which looks suspicious, delete it
and report it to your email provider immediately. Spam can sometimes become a nuisance if you
are receiving it in your inbox every day. You can manage it easily by going
into settings in your email account and activating the spam or junk preference,
or you can purchase a spam filter.
Social networking has become a major part in many people’s lives these
days, with a lot of people depending on the internet for different reasons,
whether it’s for promoting business sales or products, to using it to keep in
touch with friends and family. Gone are
the days when we used to send letters via post to get in touch with others or
called them by telephone. Although I must admit, I do still send the odd letter
to friends and even family overseas.
I chose to do my research on a site called Wattpad which is a social
networking site centred around books.
It’s become quite popular since 2007 when it started, with millions of
people now using it. When I first looked at this site, I thought I had gone to
heaven because I’m always looking for a new book to read, and here were
millions of them on this one site. To sum up Wattpad, it’s basically a huge library
online full of free books, articles and poems.
Users can read and write stories, give feedback, share stories and even
follow their favourite authors.
There have been over 500 successful Wattpad authors who have had their
book published because their story had been read millions of times. Wattpad is a great stepping stone for young
and upcoming authors who want to become recognised.
If you’re a book lover, I recommend you take a look. I have provided a link to the site below.
