Being friendly and approachable is a small and easy thing, but it makes a huge difference, and it costs you nothing besides some thought.
Replies welcome
One company I admire, multi-factor access specialists Duo Security, sent a corporate email the other day that had a standout feature among digital marketing assets.
Instead of the too-often-seen disclaimer along the lines of “Replies to this email address will not be read” and an email address like “DO-NOT-REPLY@big-faceless-corp.com”—Gee,
Every once in a while, I hear someone put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LA-ble, and it distracts me to the point where I miss the meaning. The lesson? Messages need to be clear and delivered correctly. (With bonus points for brevity!)
Your name in lights
Similar disconnects happen when an organization’s digital marketing messages clash with its established brand. It’s something people know when they see it.
Someone who emerged from a decade-long nap beneath a technological rock (decades-long, really) might be shocked to see how much of today’s IT landscape, from programming languages to virtual environments, infrastructure standards to critical networking software, and even entire operating systems, belong to no one.
Or at least, belong firmly to no single, particular person or organization—and are freely available to try out,
Some roadway signs have an irritating quality: they’re only useful to people already familiar with the road they mark. A turn-only lane appears suddenly—too late to safely get back in the forward-going lane. Or an ambiguous sign makes it hard to tell which way you need to exit, or how far you’ll need to detour around a construction area.
That same frustrating quality crops up frequently in descriptions of new technology.
