Este estudo trata da manifestação da cortesia verbal nas interações feitas por e-mail dentro de ambientes empresariais espanhóis e brasileiros. Buscamos, por meio da análise quantitativa de um corpus composto por correios eletrônicos em Português e em Espanhol, diferenças e/ou semelhanças entre as duas línguas e culturas na forma de comunicar-se por este meio. Em primeiro lugar, discutimos conceitos básicos sobre o gênero discursivo de nosso corpus e, em seguida, passamos às primeiras comparações entre as línguas a este respeito. Com base, principalmente, nos estudos da Pragmática sociocultural, autonomia/afiliação (Bravo, 1999) e atenuação (Briz, 1998), verificamos os pedidos emitidos por brasileiros e espanhóis. Buscamos, em nossas análises, encontrar diferenças e/ou semelhanças linguísticas e socioculturais no que diz respeito a estes atos de fala, traçando uma relação com os estudos da cortesia verbal. Verificamos também a frequência e função dos marcadores de atenuação nessas interações via e-mail. Nossos resultados demonstram algumas diferenças e semelhanças nas formas de interação dessas línguas. Parece haver uma valorização, por parte do Português do Brasil, de uma cortesia atenuadora, que visa a diminuir o grau de imposição de um pedido, evitando, desse modo, um possível desequilíbrio entre os interlocutores. O mesmo não ocorre no grupo de e-mails representantes do Espanhol peninsular. Percebemos que, ainda que sejam línguas semelhantes do ponto de vista estrutural, existem diferenças pragmáticas durante suas interações por e-mail / This study is about the presence of linguistic politeness in Brazilian and Spanish corporate e-mails. Applying a quantitative research technique in a corpus composed by electronic mails in Brazilian Portuguese and Peninsular Spanish, we searched for differences and/or similarities between both languages and cultures in the way of communicating via e-mails. Firstly, we discussed basic concepts about the discursive genre we used as our corpus. Following, we compared both languages regarding those concepts. Based, mainly, on sociocultural pragmatics, autonomy/affiliation (Bravo, 1999), and attenuation (Briz, 1998) studies, we analyzed Brazilian and Spanish requests. We tried to identify linguistic and sociocultural contrasts and similarities in the way of communicating written requests. We also verified the frequency and role of attenuation marks within these e-mails. Our results demonstrated some variation and resemblance in how both languages communicate requests. It seems that there is an over appreciation from the Brazilian Portuguese side, for using attenuators, in order to diminish the degree of imposition of a request, and therefore avoiding a possible instability between the interlocutors. This preference does not occur among the Spanish e-mail group. We found out that, although they are similar languages, their pragmatic choices in e-mail interaction do not seem to coincide

O correio eletrônico, ou tecnologia de e-mail, é uma forma de comunicação e de geração de informações, que ocasionou mudanças observadas em todos os setores da sociedade e que gerou grande impacto nas organizações. Constata-se que este instrumento excede cada vez mais seus espaços, fazendo com que ferramentas tradicionalmente utilizadas tornassem-se rapidamente obsoletadas, como é o caso, por exemplo, do fax. Essa situação estimula a ampliação do pensamento a respeito do que grandes mudanças geram e sobre como seus impactos têm ocorrido a nível comportamental e organizacional nas empresas, em especial no trabalho em grupo. Algumas das mudanças foram estudadas a partir de processos decisórios realizados por grupos de pessoas, que fizeram uso de correio eletrônico como ferramenta de comunicação, coordenação e colaboração. Para o desenvolvimento deste estudo, de caráter exploratório, propõe-se como metodologia um estudo de caso único com coleta de dados secundários (e-mails referentes a alguns processos decisórios selecionados para análise) e dados primários (uma pesquisa da percepção dos usuários em relação ao uso do e-mail nesses processos). Buscou-se, assim, formas de identificar os resultados e a efetividade do uso de uma ferramenta que deixou de ser, de modo veloz e dinâmico, simplesmente de comunicação para tornar-se ferramenta de ação e de decisão, que tem impactado nas atividades da organização estudada e de seus colaboradores. Os resultados obtidos indicam possíveis caminhos na busca de elementos que contribuam para o aumento da eficiência e qualidade quando utilizado esta ferramenta na tomada de decisão. / Electronic mail, or e-mail technology, is a form of communication and information generation, which caused the observed changes in all sectors of society and that has generated great impact on organizations. It appears that this instrument increasingly exceeds their space, making traditional tools used become rapidly obsolete, as is the case, for example, the fax. This situation encourages the expansion of thinking about the big changes that generate and how its impacts have occurred at behavioral and organizational enterprises, especially in group work. Some of the changes were studied from a decision-making processes carried out by groups of people who used e-mail as a tool for communication, coordination and collaboration. To develop this study, exploratory, it is proposed methodology as a single case study with secondary data collection (emails regarding some decision-making processes selected for review) and primary data (a survey of users' perception regarding the use of email in those cases). We tried to thus ways to identify the results and effectiveness of the use of a tool that has ceased to be so fast and dynamic, communication simply to become tool for action and decision that has impacted the organization's activities studied and their collaborators. The results indicate possible paths in the search for elements that contribute to increased efficiency and quality when used this tool in decision making.

Diplomová práce pojednává o fundraisingu neziskových organizací. Zaměřuje se především na stránku komunikace a strategie fundraisingu. V teoretické části seznamuje čtenáře se základními pojmy použivánými ve fundraisingu, dále popisuje metody a nástroje fundraisingu. Praktická část se věnuje zhodnocení a srovnání australské charitativní organizace Anglicare Sydney a české charitativní organizaci ? Arcidiecézní charita Praha. V dipl. práci jsou popsány a zhodnoceny silné a slabé stránky kampaní a některých komunikačních materiálů. Autorka využívá vlastních zkušeností z odborné pracovní stáže v Anglicare Sydney a získáných poznatků z návštěv pracovníků Arcidiecézní charity Praha.

With the mass availability of smartphones, mobile access to e-mail is gaining importance. Over the years, the IMAP protocol has been extended with many features ranging from extensions adding new functionality to those improving efficiency over an unreliable network. This thesis evaluates the available extensions based on their suitability for use in the context of a mobile client. Three new extensions have been developed, each improving the protocol in a distinct way. The thesis also discusses how most of these extensions were implemented in Trojitá, the author's free software open source IMAP e-mail client.

This thesis is based around five studies examining the psychology of interpersonal communication applied to organizational settings. The studies are designed to examine the question of how the way that people in positions of power in organizations communicate with subordinates, affects various measures of health, well-being and productivity. It is impossible to study modern organisational communication without recognising the importance of electronic communication. The use of e-mail and other forms of text messaging is now ubiquitous in all areas of communication. The studies in this thesis include the use of e-mail as a medium of communication and examine some of the potential effects of electronic versus face-to-face and verbal communication. The findings of the studies support the basic hypothesis that: it is not what is said that matters but how it is said. The results showed that an unsupportive, formal, authoritarian style of verbal or written communication is likely to have a negative effect on health, well-being and productivity compared with a supportive, informal and egalitarian style. There are also indications that the effects of damaging communications may not be confined to the initial recipient of the message. Organizational communication does not take place in a vacuum. Any negative consequences are likely to be transmitted by the recipient, either back to the sender or on to other colleagues with implications for the wider organisational climate. These findings are based on communications that would not necessarily be immediately recognised as obviously offensive or bullying, or even uncivil. The effects of these relatively mild but unsupportive communications may have implications for the selection and training of managers. In the final section of the thesis there is a discussion of how examples of various electronically recorded messages might be used as training material.

Este estudo trata do desenvolvimento da rede de arte postal na América Latina desde o seu início no final da década de 1960 até a sua presença da XVI Bienal de São Paulo em 1981. Para isso, são retomadas as redes latino-americanas de trocas de poesia experimental estruturadas na década de 1960. Em seguida, são descritas as trajetórias de alguns dos protagonistas da arte postal nesta região, bem como as exposições e publicações coletivas que eles organizaram. Nesse momento, são abordadas as manifestações da rede de arte postal na Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia, El Salvador, México, Uruguai e Venezuela. Por fim, é analisado o caso específico do Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), explicitando como essa instituição conectou-se organicamente à rede. Esta pesquisa tem como ponto de partida acervo de arte conceitual do MAC USP e acompanha a expansão da rede a partir das grandes mostras coletivas realizadas entre 1972 e 1981 na América Latina. Além disso, destaca a relação da arte postal com as ditaduras militares como decisiva na caracterização desta prática entre os latino-americanos. / This study is about the development of the mail art network in Latin America since its beginning at the end of the 60s until its presence on the XVI Biennial of São Paulo in 1981. For this purpose, the Latin American networks of experimental poetry exchange, structured in the 60s, are recaptured. After this, the trajectories of some of the mail art protagonists in this region are described, as well as the collective exhibitions and publications that they organized. At this point, the demonstrations of the mail art networks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela are approached. Finally, the specific case of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP) is analyzed, explaining how that institution connected itself organically to the mail art network. This research starts with the conceptual art collection of the MAC USP and follows the expansion of the network from the large collective exhibitions performed between 1972 and 1981 in Latin America. Besides that, it emphasizes the relation between mail art and the military dictatorships as a decisive part of the characterization of this practice among Latin American.

This research project examined the diffusion of change within one Victorian TAPE Institute by engaging action research to facilitate implementation of e-mail technology. The theoretical framework involving the concepts of technology innovation and action research was enhanced with the aid of Rogers's (1983) model of the diffusion of the innovation process. Political and cultural factors made up the initiation phase of innovation, enabling the research to concentrate on the implementation phase of e-mail Roger's (1983) model also provided adopter categories that related to the findings of a Computer Attitude Survey that was conducted at The School of Mines and Industries Ballarat (SMB), now the University of Ballarat—TAPE Division since amalgamation on 1st January 1998. Despite management rhetoric about the need to utilise e-mail, Institute teaching staff lacked individual computers in their work areas and most were waiting to become connected to the Internet as late as 1997. According to the action research reports, many staff were resistant to the new e-mail facilities despite having access to personal computers whose numbers doubled annually. The action research project became focussed when action researchers realised that e-mail workshop training was ineffective and that staff required improved access. Improvement to processes within education through collaborative action research had earlier been achieved (McTaggart 1994), and this project actively engaged practitioners to facilitate decentralised e-mail training in the workplace through the action research spiral of planning, acting, observing and reflecting, before replanning. The action researchers * task was to find ways to improve the diffusion of e-mail throughout the Institute and to develop theoretical constructs. My research task was to determine whether action research could successfully facilitate e-mail throughout the Institute. A rich literature existed about technology use in education, technology teaching, gender issues, less about computerphobia, and none about 'e-mailphobia \ It seemed appropriate to pursue the issue of e-mailphobia since it was marginalised, or ignored in the literature. The major political and cultural influences on the technologising of SMB and e-mail introduction were complex, making it impossible to ascertain the relative degrees of influence held by Federal and State Governments, SMB's leadership or the local community, Nonetheless, with the implementation of e-mail, traditional ways were challenged as SMB's culture changed. E-mail training was identified as a staff professional development activity that had been largely unsuccessful. Action research is critical collaborative inquiry by reflective practitioners who are accountable for making the results of their inquiry public and who are self-evaluating of their practice while engaging participative problem-solving and continuing professional development (Zuber-Skerritt 1992, 1993). Action research was the methodology employed in researching e-mail implementation into SMB because it involved collaborative inquiry with colleagues as reflective practitioners. Thoughtful questions could best be explored using deconstructivist philosophy, in asking about the noise of silence, which issues were not addressed, what were the contradictions and who was being marginalised with e-mail usage within SMB. Reviewing literature on action research was complicated by its broad definition and by the variability of research (King & Lonnquist 1992), and yet action research as a research methodology was well represented in educational research literature, and provided a systematic and recognisable way for practitioners to conduct their research. On the basis of this study, it could be stated that action research facilitated the diffusion of e-mail technology into one TAPE Institute, despite the process being disappointingly slow. While the process in establishing the action research group was problematic, action researchers showed that a window of opportunity existed for decentralised diffusion of e-mail training,in preference to bureaucratically motivated 'workshops. Eight major findings, grouped under two broad headings were identified: the process of diffusion (planning, nature of the process, culture, politics) and outcomes of diffusion (categorising, e-mailphobia, the survey device and technology in education). The findings indicated that staff had little experience with e-mail and appeared not to recognise its benefits. While 54.1% did not agree that electronic means could be the preferred way to receive Institute memost some 13.7% admitted to problems with using the voice answering service on telephones. Some 43.3% thought e-mail would not improve their connectedness (how they related) to the Institute. A small percentage of staff had trouble with telephone voice-mail and a number of these were anxious computer users. Individualised tuition and peer support proved helpful to individual staff whom action researchers believed to be 'at risk', as determined from the results of a Computer Attitude Survey. An instructional strategy that fostered the development of self-regulation and peer support was valuable, but there was no measure of the effects of this action research program, other than in qualitative terms. Nevertheless, action research gave space to reflect on the nature of the underlying processes in adopting e-mail. Challenges faced by TAPE action researchers are integrally affected by the values within TAPE, which change constantly and have recently been extensive enough to be considered as a 'new paradigm'. The influence of competition policy, the training reform agenda and technologisation of training have challenged traditional TAPE values. Action research reported that many staff had little immediate professional reason to use e-mail Theoretical answers were submerged beneath practical professional concerns, which related back to how much time teachers had and whether they could benefit from e-mail. A need for the development of principles for the sound educational uses of e-mail increases with the internationalisation of education and an increasing awareness of cultural differences. The implications for conducting action research in TAPE are addressed under the two broad issues of power and pedagogy. Issues of power included gaining access, management's inability to overcome staff resistance to technology, changing TAPE values and using technology for conducting action research. Pedagogical issues included the recognition of educational above technological issues and training staff in action research. Finally, seventeen steps are suggested to overcome power and pedagogical impediments to the conduct of action research within TAPE. This action research project has provided greater insight into the difficulties of successfully introducing one culture-specific technology into one TAPE Institute. TAPE Institutes need to encourage more action research into their operations, and it is only then that -we can expect to answer the unanswered questions raised in this research project.

<p>SMTP, the current protocol for sending electronic mail (e-mail) over the Internet, has for many years suffered from several problems and limitations. When it was designed, well over twenty years ago, the requirements for e-mail were very different from those of today. A message was a text message in English, and both user and machine were explicitly named in the address. The protocol was not designed to transfer other types of messages, and no mechanism was included to verify the identity of the sender.</p><p>In order to solve these shortcomings, a new e-mail protocol needs to be defined. This report specifies a basis for what such a protocol may look like. The protocol has been designed to be easy to modify and expand, as well as to benefit from more recent ideas and technology. Binary message content is transferred without conversion, sender addresses are verified, and the address format is flexible. Along with the specification of the protocol, a sample implementation has been provided.</p>

<p>Having a functioning internal communication is necessary for the survival and existence of every company. Traditional communication channels are for example meetings, noteboards and personnel newspapers. During the last ten years we have witnessed an explosion of new channels, who are based on information technology. IT is a natural part in new IT-companies, like Framfab and Icon Medialab, but what role does IT have in a large, manufacturing company with a long history? The purpose with this thesis is to investigate how IT has influenced the internal communication in a company. With this thesis we want to contribute to a developed understanding of communication within companies and discuss what role IT can play for internal communication in the future. We have chosen to study Akzo Nobel and have interviewed employees in different business units to investigate their view on communication and the influence of IT. We found that IT has had a relatively great impact on the internal communication and that the new technology often work as a complement to the traditional communication channels. We believe that IT will lead to an increased amount of written communication and that the communication will be detached from persons. There is a risk that the amount of information will increase and that this will make it harder for the individual to find relevant information. For IT to be an efficient channel for companies in the future, we believe that companies must educate employees regarding technology, pedagogic and written presentation.</p>

<p>Purpose/aim: To investigate individual experiences of how a new communication technology, e-mail, influences a) the structure of the internal communication – does it for example make networking any easier? – and b) the form of the persons everyday language.</p><p>Material/method: A theoretical framework gathered through a literature study and empirical data gathered through interviews with two persons.</p><p>Main results: Differences and similarities exist between the experiences studied in this paper. The most unexpected result is that the system of e-mail does not seem to be able to create new channels of communication. If anything, it reinforces the structure that already exist. An aspect of decisive importance is the original rules and norms concerning internal communication within the organization.</p>