{"id":9855,"date":"2012-07-26T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T05:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2012-09-24T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T06:09:00","slug":"what-your-e-mail-signature-will-not-say-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/07\/26\/what-your-e-mail-signature-will-not-say-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What your e-mail signature will not tell about you?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Guetta
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Founder and member of AEGEE-Kazantip*<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker of the Party Working Group<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Active member of We-do-Nothing Commission<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor-in-Chief of Monthly Party Newsletter <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Member of EXIT** Committee <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

AEGEE\/European Students\u2019 Forum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Familiar signature, isn\u2019t it? How many times it happened with you that reading the signature of the sender under e-mail, you already forgot which was the content of it and what sender initially wanted from you? <\/em><\/p>\n

With me it happened few times. However, recently I received an e-mail from one AEGEE member, with excellent sense of humour, under which I saw the signature:<\/p>\n

\u201c_ _<\/p>\n

Name Surname<\/em><\/p>\n

to do: insert dozen lines of AEGEE title\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

and I understood that this topic needs to be investigated as soon as possible with an urgent definition of diagnosis.<\/p>\n

As most of my inbox emails are coming from AEGEE I decided that this is a perfect place for research!<\/p>\n

Which situation in AEGEE we have with signatures? Figuratively, we can divide all AEGEE members into three groups: those who do not care about their e-mail signatures and put just name-surname in the best case; those who put in signature only necessary titles connected with the topic of the e-mail and recipient; and those who put there all possible titles (AEGEE + official job positions + all universities they studied in + position awarded after last Summer University in Riga etc.)<\/p>\n

Spending hours and reading different theories about e-mail signatures I found out one of the most popular business theories which sounds like: \u201cThe more important person is, the shorter his e-mail signature\u201d. Is it true? No idea, I never was emailing with a billionaire. However, both limit situations with an absence of e-mail signatures and with endless ones are not correct.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see first what is better NOT to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n

What to do if you want to destroy the impression about your e-mail and you as serious person:<\/p>\n