Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
Author: David Shipley
When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up?
What is the crucial—and most often overlooked—line in an email?
What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell?
Enter Send. Whether you email just a little or never stop, use a desktop or a handheld, here, at last, is an authoritative and delightful book that shows how to write the perfect email—at work, at school, or anywhere. Send also points out the numerous (but not always obvious) times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water (or even jail!).
The secret is, of course, to think before you click. Send is nothing short of a survival guide for the digital age—wise, brimming with good humor, and filled with helpful lessons from the authors’ own email experiences (and mistakes). In short: absolutely e-ssential.
The New York Times - Dave Barry
E-mail, for all its efficiency, often fails to achieve its intended result; a vague or carelessly worded message can cause major problems — personal, legal and financial — for senders and receivers. Helping you avoid these problems is the goal of "Send," an informative, entertaining, thorough and thoughtful book. The authors are media veterans — David Shipley is deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times; Will Schwalbe is editor in chief of Hyperion Books — with extensive, and not always positive, experience sending and receiving e-mail. They summarize their essential message in two rules: "Think before you send" and "Send e-mail you would like to receive."
Publishers Weekly
From this essential guidebook's opening sentence—"Bad things can happen on email"—Shipley and Schwalbe make all too clear what can go wrong. E-mail's ubiquity, with casual and formal correspondence jumbled in the same inbox, makes misunderstandings common; e-mail's inexpressive, text-only format doesn't help. Given its brief history, there's no established etiquette for usage, which is why this primer is so valuable. It promises the reader hope of becoming more efficient and less annoying, reducing danger of a career-ending blunder. Brisk, practical and witty, the book aims to improve the reader's skills as sender and recipient: devising effective subject lines and exploring "the politics of the cc"; how to steer clear of legal issues; and how to recognize different types of attachments. Using real-life examples from flame wars and awkward exchanges (including their own), Shipley and Schwalbe (op-ed editor of the New York Timesand Hyperion Books' editor-in-chief) explain why people so often say "incredibly stupid things" in their outgoing messages. "Email has a tendency to encourage the lesser angels of our nature," they note. They also offer "seven big reasons to love email," along with quick guides to instant messaging and e-mail technology, all the while urging us to "think before [we] send." (Apr.)
Copyright 2007 Reed Business InformationSchool Library Journal
Adult/High School-In a snappy and easy manner, the authors provide a brief history of email, explain why people love it, review reasons for using it, and describe times when it should be avoided-for love letters, documents to be archived, and confidential correspondence. There are discussions on writing emails (essentially six types), subject lines, the use of contractions, font type and size, color, openings, and sign-offs. For readers who have ever sent an email and instantly regretted it, wondered about legality issues or whether or not that deleted email will stay deleted, or what information is hidden in an email's header, this guide provides the answers.-Joanne Ligamari, Rio Linda School District, Sacramento, CA
Copyright 2007 Reed Business InformationWhat People Are Saying
“Send is an easy to read primer, full of practical tips for every emailer.”
—Bob Eckert, Charman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.
“Send can help any of us send emails that build better business relationships and get better results.”
—Spencer Johnson, M.D., author of Who Moved My Cheese?
“It should not have taken until 2007 for someone to write the definitive tome on email. Send is to email what The Elements of Style is to writing. Thank God it’s here at last. (BCC: David Shipley and Will Schwalbe)”
—Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start
“This is just the book I’ve been waiting for.”
—Bill Bryson
“A fascinating, entertaining, and, above all, informative look at email—and how it changed the way we communicate with one another. What Strunk and White is to style, this book is to email. It’s a terrific read. I highly recommend it.”
—Charles Osgood
“The Internet has finally found its Emily Post. If after you’ve read this you fail to change your emailing habits, you’re doomed. Read it or weep.”
—Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side and Moneyball
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ASP, ADO, and XML Complete
Author: Sybex Inc
ASP, ADO, and XML Complete is a one-of-a-kind computer book--valuable both for its extensive content and its low price. This book contains a wealth of vital information for any developer in need of a complete reference to the most essential technologies used for Web programming on the Windows platform.
ASP, ADO, and XML Complete not only covers the fundamentals of scripting and ASP but it also highlights database development with ADO and SQL Server, client-side scripting, building your own components, using XML with ASP, implementing e-commerce with Microsoft BizTalk server, and building your own online store.
ASP, ADO, and XML Complete introduces you to the work of some of Sybex's finest authors, so you'll know where to turn when you want to learn even more about key Web development topics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction.
Part i Programming Essentials.
Chapter 1: The Microsoft Toolset.
Chapter 2: Visual Basic and the Web.
Chapter 3: Web Applications and ASP.
Chapter 4: Introduction to VBScript.
Chapter 5: Introduction to JScript.
Part ii: Beginning ASP.
Chapter 6: IIS Applications.
Chapter 7: Introduction to ASP Applications.
Chapter 8: Building ASP Applications.
Chapter 9: State Maintenance in ASP Applications.
Chapter 10: Sample Application.
Part iii: Database Development.
Chapter 11: Database Access: Architectures and Technologies.
Chapter 12: Basic Concepts of Relational Databases.
Chapter 13: Introduction to Relational Databases and SQL.
Chapter 14: Exploring Data from Visual Basic.
Chapter 15: ADO 2.5 for Web Developers.
Part iv: Advanced ASP and WebClasses.
Chapter 16: Client-Side Scripting.
Chapter 17: Building Your Own Components.
Chapter 18: Planning Applications.
Part v: XML.
Chapter 19: Using XML/XSL with ASP.
Chapter 20: XML and ASP.
Chapter 21: XML and MS Databases.
Chapter 22: E-Commerce with MS BizTalk.
Part vi: Building Real-World Web Applications.
Chapter 23: Building the User Interface.
Chapter 24: Making a Basket Case.
Chapter 25: On Sale.
Chapter 26: Discussion Forums.
Index.
