10 Ways To Be Polite Over The Internet

1) Always get emails answered if they come from trusted people. Alternatively, if you get too many emails, setup a new filter that sends an automatic response to this kind of emails. 

2) You have a blog? Try to join discussions about your blog posts as much as you can. Don’t leave your readers alone while commenting on your blog posts.

3) When you get friends’ requests on Facebook, accept them or, better, ask for information about the other person in case you don’t know/remember her/him.

4) Never decline LinkedIn InMails/ introduction requests. If you are not interested, reply and say “Thanks for your inquiry, unfortunately I’m not interested at this time”.

5) Don’t hide you email adress or phone number too much. If you actively participate in social networks, make your email/phone number easily available. Scoble rules here.

6) Try to get direct Twitter messages answered as much as you can. Jeff Pulver rules here.

7) Try to get back to IM messages you receive from trusted people. If you are busy and can’t reply, just set your status to busy/not available.

If someone in your trusted network asks you for an update of your contact details through Plaxo, always reply. It is useful for your network to stay in touch with you and “tomorrow”, who knows, it could mean business.

9) If you worked with someone who asks you for a recommendation on LinkedIn or other similar professional networks, take the time to do that. Your business partner or colleague might do the same for you in the future.

10) The 10nth suggestion is: read this post carefully because you still don’t know, but it could be useful for you in the future. I try to apply all the rules above and I can assure you that people in your network appreciate that and, in addition, much more business opportunities come out.

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