Times come and go. At the same time we change together with them. So many people, including teenagers, are getting to forget basic rules of how to properly write letters and address envelopes. We got into the way of using email services not having any idea what to do with zip codes, postage stamps, envelopes, etc.

On the one part, we really make use of electronic mail, because this is so easy-to-use way of keeping in touch with pen pals. Indeed, many kids say that e-mail is one of the Internet’s oldest forms of messaging. On the other hand, our new generation should be in the know how to handle traditional letter writing as well as adults. No matter, what sort of message you are eager to compose.

There are several ways when you have to turn to advantage of writing letters. First off, your pen pal has no any access to the web and probably doesn’t know what email is. Of course, the old generation (grandmas, grandpas, etc.) is a typical representative that used to the paper letters and messages. Though, there is no rule without exceptions!

Sometimes the old people struggle to get their kids and grandchildren to write letters, or thank-you notes to their grandparents and distant relatives. In such a way representatives of youth can teach to up-to-date look-and-feel, peculiarities of digital media, and surely how to use e-mail and mobile phones, send and receive messages online.

“People ask us if an e-mail note will suffice, and we’ll tell them that it’s better than no note at all, but a written note is imperative, especially if it’s a grandparent.” (Cindy Post Senning, director, Emily Post Institute)

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More and more studies claim that in our digital world consumers still give preference and credence to traditional mail in spite of the fact that for most of us email is extremely around today.

I don’t want to be unfounded. The study, the fourth mail preference survey commissioned by Stamford, found that the majority of consumers (73 percent) prefer mail for receiving new product announcements or offers from companies they do business with, as compared to 18 percent for e-mail.

By the way, mail was also preferred by 70 percent of respondents for receiving unsolicited information on products and services from companies with which they are not currently doing business.

“The research clearly shows that consumers still prefer mail over e-mail,” said Stacy DeWalt, vice president, Vertical Market Development and Marketing, Pitney Bowes Management Services (PBMS). “In working with our customers, we continue to find that mail is the most effective marketing tool businesses can use when communicating with their customers. Offerings such as our Pitney Bowes MailWorks(TM) solution helps businesses leverage the mailstream more efficiently and effectively to strengthen existing customer relationships, establish new relationships and grow their business.”

The survey also probed consumers on specific advantages they see in mail versus unsolicited e-mail and telephone calls. Compared with other communications channels, including e-mail and telephone, survey respondents found mail to be: Less intrusive - doesn’t interrupt other activities (45.3 percent); More convenient - can be saved and considered at leisure (40.2 percent); Less high-pressured - lets you consider your decision (30.2 percent); More descriptive — lets you picture the offer (22.7 percent); and More persuasive - encourages you to respond (12 percent).

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Personal news aggregator with RSS and Atom support. Comes with a set of predefined news feeds.

It’s a home page you dreamt before, cause it allows you to control totally over your RSS feeds, your email, being able to check out the weather in your city, listen to podcasts, etc.

Check it out, you won’t be sorry. What’s more? Keeping up-to-date on all your favorite feeds, what’s new in your inbox of both your Gmail and Hotmail accounts has never been so easy. Any e-mail feed can be put on Netvibes option, however My Yahoo users can choose only Yahoo’s e-mail option.

It’s worthy of notice that it works in most languages, therefore if you don’t speak well English or German, for example, some other languages are at your service like Chinese, Croatian, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and French.

Make it your start page and you’ll never forget to send a message as soon as you connect to the net.

They say: “This service is free and gives the user the ability:

• to create a personalized page with the content they like;

• to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 with a very simple interface;

• to access your page anytime and from any computer.

“It is also possible to:

• browse, modify, and import your RSS feeds with our integrated RSS/ATOM feedreader. You can easily import an OPML file as well;

• to import, download and listen podcasts without any additional software;

• to check your mail on one or many gmail account, to stick webnotes, weather and many more to come!”

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