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Social media are revolutionizing business communication—even companies that don't use these tools yet are affected by new audience behaviors and expectations.
Is your business communication textbook informed by real-life, hands-on experience with social media? We invite you to try a simple experiment.
1. Google the following keywords: Bovee Thill social media
How many results do you see?
2. Now search forsocial media along with the names of the authors of your current text.
How do the results compare with the Bovee and Thill search?
Which authors' names do you see associated with social media sites, such as Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, SlideShare, SlideBoom, Authorstream, StumbleUpon, Scribd, Bag the Web, About.Me, Twylah, Scoop.it, Skype, WhatsApp, Tumblr, BombBomb, PRLog, Symbaloo, Storify, Bovee and Thill's Business Communication Blog, Instapaper, and YouTube, among others.
The answer: You'll see Bovee and Thill associated with dozens of social media sites, including the sites mentioned above. All other business communication authors: practically none.
The reason for this discrepancy is that Bovee and Thill use the social media tools they write about, and they've been active and innovative practitioners for years now. This deep experience is reflected in their textbooks, with thoroughly integrated coverage of social media practices and dozens of real-world social media cases and student exercises. For other authors, social media appear to be largely an abstract concept.
Which textbooks would you and your students benefit from the most?
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Bovee & Thill provide the latest information in their texts about writing a resume for the digital age. Students will learn about creating a personal brand and an e-portfolio. They'll also see examples of an infographic resume, multimedia resume, social media resume, as well as traditional resumes.
The complaint of "death by PowerPoint" is often voiced by audiences forced to sit through screen after screen of overstuffed bullet-point slides.
But presentations don't need to be so dull. As students learn in Bovee and Thill texts, the most important design decision for a presentation is whether to use conventional structured slides or the looser, free-form slides that many presentation specialists now advocate. If the text you're currently using is teaching only conventional bullet-point slide design, it isn't preparing students for the expectations of today's workplace.
Even as the universe of digital possibilities continues to expand, email remains a primary communication tool for employees in most organizations.
Chances are your students aren't accustomed to using email in a manner that meets the expectations of the workplace, but they have multiple opportunities right now to hone their email skills.
Encourage them to consider these tips whenever they write email messages to any of their instructors:
Every day on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, millions of consumers and business customers rant, rave, brainstorm, offer help, and ask for help. Smart companies recognize that this global chatter is a gold mine of valuable insights, and they use social listening tools to figure out what people are saying about them and their competitors.
Bovee and Thill's business communication textbooks continue to lead the field with unmatched coverage of communication technologies, reflecting the expectations and opportunities in today's workplace. Texts by other authors address only a fraction of these terms.
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Just as they will be on the job, most of the requests students need to make in their academic and personal lives are fairly routine and can be accomplished using the techniques for routine requests they learn in this course.
However, we all face situations from time to time where we need to make a more difficult request, such as asking an instructor for leniency, asking a landlord or a retailer for special consideration, or asking parents or a partner for help. In these situations, a more persuasive approach might be useful.
Encourage students to apply the strategies they are learning for persuasive business messages and to follow these tips as well.
Much of the business communication course focuses on improving one’s skills as a sender of messages, but successful communication requires the mindful and skillful participation of both the sender and the receiver. When we are engaged in a conversation, attending a presentation, or listening to a podcast or video, the success of the communication effort hinges on our performance as listeners.
In your class you’ll probably be emphasizing the long-term value of the business communication course to your students. Here’s our list of 27 ways communication skills can help students in their personal and professional lives.
Every business communicator encounters situations that require ethical decision making. How can you be sure that you are making the right choice whenever you face one of these challenges? By following this four-step approach, you can be more confident that you are making the best possible choices, even in the most difficult circumstances.
Are you going to adopt a modern “Essentials” textbook with extensive integration of mobile communication in every chapter, or are you going to saddle your students with a commonly adopted “Essentials” text that is stuck in the last decade?
Bovee & Thill's Online Magazines for Business Communication's insight:
Because of complacency and a lack of knowledge about the topic, most business communication textbook authors are ignoring the mobile revolution. In fact, they’re pretending that it doesn’t even exist.
In light of these facts, are your students being served well? There is one team that’s always on the cutting edge: Bovee and Thill. The fact they are the only business communication textbook authors currently writing about mobile tells you everything you need to know about which author team conscientiously revises its books and keeps them current. (Bovee and Thill were also the first authors to discuss social media and digital communication in their texts.)
Adopt the only modern "Essentials" text: Business Communications Essentials by Bovee and Thill.
See how your text compares to Business Communication Essentials with this interactive checklist.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Social media are revolutionizing business communication—even companies that don't use these tools yet are affected by new audience behaviors and expectations.
Is your business communication textbook informed by real-life, hands-on experience with social media? We invite you to try a simple experiment.
1. Google the following keywords: Bovee Thill social media
How many results do you see?
2. Now search forsocial media along with the names of the authors of your current text.
How do the results compare with the Bovee and Thill search?
Which authors' names do you see associated with social media sites, such as Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, SlideShare, SlideBoom, Authorstream, StumbleUpon, Scribd, Bag the Web, About.Me, Twylah, Scoop.it, Skype, WhatsApp, Tumblr, BombBomb, PRLog, Symbaloo, Storify, Bovee and Thill's Business Communication Blog, Instapaper, and YouTube, among others.
The answer: You'll see Bovee and Thill associated with dozens of social media sites, including the sites mentioned above. All other business communication authors: practically none.
The reason for this discrepancy is that Bovee and Thill use the social media tools they write about, and they've been active and innovative practitioners for years now. This deep experience is reflected in their textbooks, with thoroughly integrated coverage of social media practices and dozens of real-world social media cases and student exercises. For other authors, social media appear to be largely an abstract concept.
Which textbooks would you and your students benefit from the most?
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Social media are revolutionizing business communication—even companies that don't use these tools yet are affected by new audience behaviors and expectations.
Is your business communication textbook informed by real-life, hands-on experience with social media? We invite you to try a simple experiment.
1. Google the following keywords: Bovee Thill social media
How many results do you see?
2. Now search for social media along with the names of the authors of your current text.
How do the results compare with the Bovee and Thill search?
Which authors' names do you see associated with social media sites, such as Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, SlideShare, SlideBoom, Authorstream, StumbleUpon, Scribd, Bag the Web, About.Me, Twylah, Scoop.it, Skype, WhatsApp, Tumblr, BombBomb, PRLog, Symbaloo, Storify, Bovee and Thill's Business Communication Blog, Instapaper, and YouTube, among others.
The answer: You'll see Bovee and Thill associated with dozens of social media sites, including the sites mentioned above. All other business communication authors: practically none.
The reason for this discrepancy is that Bovee and Thill use the social media tools they write about, and they've been active and innovative practitioners for years now. This deep experience is reflected in their textbooks, with thoroughly integrated coverage of social media practices and dozens of real-world social media cases and student exercises. For other authors, social media appear to be largely an abstract concept.
Which textbooks would you and your students benefit from the most?