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--- communicationsbestpractices [2015/03/27 20:39] – improved how a couple sentences read, broke a couple lines up that jumped out at me waldo
+++ communicationsbestpractices [2017/01/14 14:24] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-===penguicon communication best practices ===
+===Penguicon Communication Best Practices ===
   * (this is just a start, needs additions and to be cleaned up and improved, feel free to help)
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       * It is very difficult to know whether anything might be wrong from silence
-==announcements: ==
+==Announcements: ==
-  - should be made as soon as the information is known and can be made public
+  * should be made as soon as the information is known and can be made public
      * for meetings sometimes time and date are known first.
        * It is important to get the date and time out
        * Then update as soon as possible when a location is found.
-  - having them in one place is good
+  * having them in one place is good
-  - having each separate is good
+  * having each separate is good
-  - people like it when both are done and others hate it when both are done
+  * people like it when both are done and others hate it when both are done
-==long emails: ==
+==Long Emails: ==
-  - highlighting main points is good
+  * highlighting main points is good
-  - **Drawing attention to the main point helps** those of us **on phone** or who **have ADD like me**
+  * **Drawing attention to the main point helps** those of us **on phone** or who **have ADD like me**
-this also **helps when you are skimming** an email after a first read to **find the main points that you read before, adding particular strings to this could help with search-ability** as well this would take some discussion to find a good string
+  * this also **helps when you are skimming** an email after a first read to **find the main points that you read before, adding particular strings to this could help with search-ability** as well this would take some discussion to find a good string
-  * let the list who can outright ignore a long email as well up at the top or in the subject
+  * let the list know who can outright ignore a long email up at the top or in the subject
-==Action items: ==
+==Action Items: ==
-  - it is good to remember to let it be known what if any action needs to be done
+  * it is good to remember to let it be known what if any action needs to be done
-  - who is expected to do each action needed
+  * who is expected to do each action needed
-  - if there is a due date.
+  * if there is a due date.
-  - have a backup line of communications for more urgent items, like a second contact or request for feedback or receipt of message to make sure they got it with enough time to respond to any due date
+  * have a backup line of communications for more urgent items, like a second contact or request for feedback or receipt of message to make sure they got it with enough time to respond to any due date
       * with unknowns in everyone's schedules such as travel, work, family events, sickness, dead batteries etc this could help out quite a bit