Jim Walton on Email Etiquette

Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters posted part 2 of his Email Etiquette series regarding sending email to your congregation. Here is a snippet from part 1:

I saw a letter from a church recently detailing the new Wednesday night classes. It was a crowded page full of many offerings, but it communicated the facts. A few days later, I saw an e-mail from the same church detailing the new Wednesday night classes and it looked horrible and was hard to read. Upon closer inspection, it was evident that the text was probably copied from MS Word, directly into the e-mail.

That is something to keep in mind, especially if you use Outlook and the MS Word editor feature. Be kind when you send an email and use plain text or simple markup, a font that is easy to read, and lots of whitespace. Great stuff – check it out no matter if you are a technology ministry or not, as there are valuable lessons in email etiquette and some great reminders for us veterans as well.

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