Книга: Mini Messaging: The Art of Smart Texting

Mini Messaging: The Art of Smart Texting relates to writing strategies primarily aimed for texting, microblogging, instant messaging (IM), smart phone messaging and other condensed digital communications. It is a modern day version of the classic writing textbook, Strunk and White's Elements of Style for the Web 2.0 environment, applied to digital messages with limited writing space such as using 140 characters for Twitter, several short sentences for Facebook comments, smartphone messaging, and IM collectively referred to as a Mini Message packaged in a creative, succinct and user-friendly approach. Mini Messaging is meant to be a fun yet informative short text relating to short texts. It is primarily aimed at Mini Messaging, but it can also be applied to longer and more general writing styles. This mini book is essentially a writing strategy book, but packaged creatively to maximize its understanding potential and readership interest. But this mini book is not all play underneath the creative packaging exists fundamental principles related to the art and science of using Plain English for short messaging strategies. Writing in Plain English simple, concise sentences has always been important, even before Web 2.0. But when you only have a few words to make your point using digital devices, then Plain English for the 2.0 environment referred to as Plain English 2.0 becomes ever more important. Although books exist relating to texting marketing, etiquette and psychology, this is the first and only book related to writing strategies for smart texting (e.g., smartphone texts, emails, IM, blogging, and even traditional writing) that provides related methods and strategies that employs minimal word usage. By taking this mini word approach, the book follows the same type of word constraints to those of the subject matter (Mini Messages). Given the enormous convergence towards new social media such as Twitter, Facebook and text messaging generally, this book will give you the necessary strategies to get maximum value out of all your Mini Messages.