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Mobile Email Signatures
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Mobile Email Signatures: Love 'Em or Leave 'Em?

I'm all for helpful email signatures, but lately it seems like more and more people are choosing a cheeky signature to use when they send emails from mobile devices.
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I'm all for helpful email signatures, but lately it seems like more and more people are choosing a cheeky signature to use when they send emails from mobile devices. I've seen everything from the standard "Sent from my iPhone" to the slightly more obnoxious "Sent from a mobile device, please excuse any errors."

My feeling: unless you are an extremely important person — say, the president or something — you should be taking the time to check your message for errors. If you have time to send it, you have time to take the care to make sure it's up to your standards of emailing. One researcher even says that such mobile signatures can act as salt on a wound when the recipient feels like the sender didn't take the proper time necessary to reply. Do these irk you as much as they bother me?

Do You Use an Email Signature?
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Do You Use an Email Signature? What Does It Say?

This morning I was making plans with friends via email, and after reading through our short exchange, I realized I was the only one not to include an email signature.
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This morning I was making plans with friends via email, and after reading through our short exchange, I realized I was the only one not to include an email signature. At work, I use a signature that includes my name, title, and email address. I don't include one in my personal email at all (which according to this post on decoding email signatures, makes me cool). Conversely, one of my friends has a super-thorough email signature including full contact information — address, phone number, email — plus her Twitter username, instant message contact information, and link to her Flickr page.

Do you use a signature on your work emails? Personal emails? What does it say?

De-Coding Email Signatures
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De-Coding Email Signatures

As soon as I saw "What does your email signature say about you?"
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As soon as I saw "What does your email signature say about you?" on lifehacker, I knew I'd be just as entertained as with Yumsugar's Starbucks Oracle. The good news? According to this analysis by Mitch Wagner at Information Week, important people don't bother with e-mail signatures, so I'm guessing my signature - or lack thereof for my personal email - means I'm super cool?! That or I'm just super lazy for not creating one. My work signature is a tad more intricate with contact info and all that jazz, so I may not be a lost cause. Read on to see what yours apparently says about you!

  • Billionaires are most likely to write emails in lower-case and sign it with one-syllable nickname you had in prep school.
  • The longer your e-mail signature, the lower down the food chain you are.
  • Your e-mail signature reflects how powerful you are. For instance, if you were profiled on "60 Minutes," you don't need no e-mail signature.
  • Some people's signatures are way too long. Ex: including name, job title, street mail address, business phone number, three instant message IDs, email, URLs for two sites, and Second Life avatar name.
  • Marketing people have company slogans in their e-mail.

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