Whenever yours truly gets a book pitch on “social impacts of handheld computing”, experience has told me to just blacklist the publisher – in 99.9% of the cases, the content is written by an organization who wants to leech money off mobile users by talking them into believing some kind of nonsense and paying for a “cure”. However, Marshall Cavendish is a reputable printing house…which is why I gave their book the benefit of the doubt.
David Thompson is a well-known author for self-help books. The intention of this work is to make you communicate more effectively using mobile email.
He achieves this by telling the fictive story of an employee working at an airline. He gets a “magic BlackBerry”, which then makes him think about the way he has communicated with his peers and managers in the past.
Topics covered include things like relationship flexibility, when to call rather than reply and the ever-famous “waiting-before-replying”.
As already said above, the book is very easy to read. Its layout furthermore emphasizes key passages:
If you do a lot of mobile email, definitely slip this book into your next Amazon order. Even though it won’t tell you much new, the 10$ are a small price for overthinking your messaging habits…
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