Re: Thread hijacking
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý?I get very high compliance when I ask for paying attention. I think helping people to understand *why* something is important helps. And helping them to understand specifically what you are wanting helps. ?If I read Please populate this in the address book of your email client and use it to initiate a message to the group. I actually would not know what that means. So I probably wouldn¡¯t read the rest of the post. Here is a sample of what I might write to my groups **** I want to speak a little about how our list can be more effective. I have noticed that a number of you are not paying attention to the subject line of our posts. ?It is very easy to just hit *reply* without connecting to the actual content of the post. This creates problems with our threads. The subject line might say HAMSTERS and the content might be about the amazon fires. So if someone is looking to learn about fires, they won¡¯t ever find the information. Do you have any thoughts about how we might remedy this problem? I sure would love to hear them. ?Thanks! *** So I think the *tone* is really important. If you are sort of beating people up, they will just tune out. So even if you are frustrated that they are not getting it, or seem to not care and you are really aggravated, if you can co e back to the task with a sense that maybe they are just not tuned into how it works. I honestly think that those of us who are more computer savvy forget that regular people just don¡¯t think the way we do :) I think of it as a nudge or a prompt¡.and it seems to work well. Anyway, that¡¯s my 2 cents for the day. Kathleen
Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D. This is Grace unfolding, you are?not alone. |
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