Chapter Six - Your Techno Impression
Impress others by phone, email, Facebook, Twitter, other social media, and gadgets

You will learn:

·         Why so many of us have difficulty turning off our electronic devices and interacting face-to-face.
·         How the brain is affected by technological devices and how they affect our first impressions.
·         The Four Rules of Techno Impressions.
·         How to use devices in the presence of real live people.
·         How to deal with people in meetings who are distracted by their electronic devices.
·         How to recognize and improve the nonverbal communication that emails give that effect first impressions.
·         How Twitter affects our first impressions.
·         How to recognize someone’s personality by the way they use technology to communicate.
·         The three most important rules for tech etiquette.
·         The most important rules for telephone, voice mail and cell phone etiquette.
·         How your technic impression can affect trust and credibility.

Techno Impressions - Ways We Are Using Technology to Communicate and Create First Impressions

Here are articles on the ways we are changing how we communicate using technology and how the way we use technology (Smart Phones, Notebooks, Computers, Skype, Email, Texts, and Face Book) sends a nonverbal first impression.

Why are we looking at our phones and laptops and how is that affecting our first impressions?

How do you make a great 'tech impression' in an era of screens and gadgets?
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Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your
Online First Impression

Leslie got home from a busy day at work and went to change into her work out clothes, as she looked in the mirror she realized that the sweater she had worn all day was inside out with the ribbing and label showing. She grimaced, thinking of all the big wigs she had met that day and what impression they may have formed. How could have been so blindsided she thought. It happens all the time. We can also go through are day interacting on the internet oblivious to our appearance, sometimes inside out with the tag showing. What are ten things you can do to present yourself at your best, as you are right now? 
Read them here...
Research:
Self-Presentation Processes in the Online Dating Environment
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