We are all involved and often take it
for granted yet misinformation and problems accur often as its
not easy. We tend to use speech and text mainly, but the
activity of conveying information derives from the
Latin word ‘communis’ meaning to share. Communication requires a
sender, a message , and an intended recipient,
although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's
intent to communicate at the time of communication. It can occur
across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that
the people involved share an area of common interest. The
process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of
the sender, but feedback is critical to effective
communication between the parties. Communication is a key factor to
the success of any organization or individual. When it comes to
effective communication, there are certain barriers that everyone
faces. What makes it complex, difficult and frustrating are barriers
such as message overload which is when a person
or company, receives too many messages at the same time, and
message complexity. To help improve your
communication we provide here some methods and programmes
commonly in use
Email
sites
Many
websites will offer you an email address as part of their package of
services. With some sites you have to nominate and email address
with them in order to log on but you don’t need to use it otherwise.
Similarly some sites want you to nominate an email address when
registering to use when logging on in future. They will send you useful information, updates and
reminders.
However, using all your
email addresses are unnecessary and hard to manage. You can easily
‘merge’ them by sending all your replies to one email manager site
only. We use two email addresses only, and suggest and highly recommend that you
record all your email log on details including passwords
(often your email
address) Your email
manager, and many other sites will often ask you to log on
again before access. If you can’t, you may lose lots of
valuable information and contacts. Many people make this mistake, I
did but quickly learnt the lesson, and now back
up all my log on details including passwords, to a
txt file and store on a separate hard drive
HotmailIts quick and easy to register, and
get your own unique email address
Mail2web You can checkyour email from anywhere using
theirWebmail service. No registration
required and they never share your information. You can
get a unique email
that reflects your interests, business and country.
Bigpond Internet arm of Telstra, they provide webmail
to all Internet customers
Gmail This is
good and we recommend.It is a Google program and interacts
with Social media and is an industy standard
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News
Secrets of internet
romances New play ‘sex with strangers’ is a
modern take on the impact of the internet on
relationships. It pairs one of Australia's most renowned actors with
a newcomer making his stage debut
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Chat sites
Yahoo MessengerChat with
all your friends from one easy and convenient window Download
now
Skype A great free local and
international communictions program. Its quick and easy to download.
You can video chat or send emails and SMS messages. Its good to have
a camera and mic. However most laptops have these built in or if
not, cameras are small inexpensive and easy to add and install,
whats more they have a built in microphone Add your friends as contacts, then
call, chat,video and instant message them for free
What is a dating scam?On a dating website, a scammer is someone who
builds a relationship with you, pretending to be a legitimate user
of a dating website then uses fraudulent claims to defraud you.
Scammers will ask you for money, personal or financial information
or try to redirect you to websites that require payment or download
malicious software onto your computer
.
Social
media
The biggest mythThat success
depends mainly on your reach. That is the number of fans, friends,
followers, Likes, re-tweets, shares, or whatever other measure you
choose. Although that
seems logical at first glance, it simply isn’t true. Having millions
of “followers” on your account doesn’t mean any of them are actually
following you in any meaningful way. Even worse, most of them
probably don’t even see your posts at all, because they get lost
among all the others they follow. Focus
instead, on consistently delivering value to the people you want to
reach, and they will spread the word naturally, and that will get
you more followers and friends. More importantly that approach will
get you the right followers and
friends
Clubs mull social media
monitoringSeveral AFL clubs are close to signing up to a
new system designed to help them monitor more closely what players
get up to on social media
Measuring social mediaMarc Fennell looks at how valuable social media
influence has become, and the tools that exist to measure
it
TwitterReal
time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and
news about what you findinteresting. Simply find the accounts
you find most compelling and follow the conversations.They are called
followers
FacebookFacebook is a social
networking service and
website. It now has more than 900
million active users. You ask other members to be your friends, you
then see their postings on your page. It links to Google and Twitter
Google PlusHelps you organize everyone
according to your real-life social connections. Create circles for
every group of people in your life from family to music buddies or
alumni. Then you can share relevant content with the right people
and find the content you're interested in. Circles allow you to
share an engagement announcement with just your friends and family
circles or find a post from a friend from your book club circle
about a great new author
Skype is a great free local and
international communictions program. Its quick and easy to
download. You can video chat or send emails and SMS
messages. Its good to have a camera and mic. However most
laptops have these built in or if not, cameras are small inexpensive
and easy to add and install, whats more they have a built in
microphone
Overseas mobile rates
'obscene' Minister Stephen Conroy and his New Zealand
counterpart Amy Adams are mulling new rules to restrict the high
fees for international roaming currently charged by phone
companies
Increased charges Telstra announce price increases in Australia
from October 1 on half of their fixed-line and mobile phone
plans. They justify
this by saying that taking inflation into account; these fixed line
charges have effectively fallen 19 per cent over the past nine years as have remained
unchanged. There will not be changes for low-income customers and
pensioners. However Telstra have recently received $11billion
in compensation, so it
seems increased charges are unjustified and unfair. I got a call
from Telstra’s yesterday before I got this news asking if I was happy and I said I was now
after 6 months of over charged bills by Bigpond, but it took a call
to the Ombudsman to resolve this problem quickly. With new technologies many consider
prices should be reducing with local calls free instead of a 2 cents
increase. Increases will encourage more people to
use Skype and similar programmes. However Telstra would still win as
Bigpond internet is theirs
Regulator unveils
tougher code ACMA is introducing tough new
rules for advertising and billing amid soaring levels of complaints
from customers. They hope a new consumer protection code
will help reduce complaints about misleading mobile phone plans and
'bill shock'
Bigpond
Internet arm of
Telstra, they provide webmail to all Internet
customers
TelstaHow to
connect, they provide phone and internet (Bigpond) services
Optus
They have a
clear, single minded focus on delivering a superior
customer experience
Nat Broadband NetThe next generation broadband network designed for
Australia’s future needs. It will provide more reliable, high speed
broadband access to all
Australians
Atspace
Worlds leading provider of Free Hosting
with over 800,000 web sites.
They provide help
and independent, informal, speedy resolution of all complaints. We've been useing them from
the beginning, bought a unique domain www.fleurcom.org
and highly recommend them for beginners and experts
alike
Internet
Description,
history, privacy and censorship
.
Various
Tech Explained Find
the new ways to watch TV, video content and much more
Tips &
Technology Links to sites
such as Microsoft and Apple, with the latest communication news
and information
Web DesignMake your own free or inexpensive
website. Instant
fastrack sites also
See many great examples and learn how to make
your own and publish them
Australia Post
Everything you need including
information on their products services, post office locations,
tracking services and postage calculators
OmbudsmanProvides independent, just, informal
and speedy resolution of
telecommunication complaints
ACCAN Peak body that represents all consumers on
communications issues including telecommunications, broadband and
emerging new services. They
provide a strong, unified voice to industry and government as they
work towards availability, accessibility and affordability
Super highway becoming a
realityOptus joins the 4G mobile network
rollout.
Look at the implications of faster mobile connections
Bigpond
