E-mail Accounts

An E-mail Account with Moxy Media, Inc. comes with many benefits, including:.

Key Benefits of E-Mail Compared with other means of communication, e-mail offers competitive advantages:

Once you are connected to the Net and at your computer, it is easier to send e-mail than to send a letter. You needn't follow an elaborate business-letter format or get out stationery and stamps. To answer an e-mail message, you can simply choose "Respond," type your message, and send it with one click. Especially when you must send the same message to many people, e-mail can save significant time and expense.

With e-mail, you may find that you are more likely to follow up on personal contacts. For example, you may have found that you collect stacks of business cards at meetings or conferences, fully meaning to follow up on a good idea that was raised in face-to-face discussions, but you never get around to writing those letters. E-mail makes it easier to follow up and to continue the dialogue. E-mail also makes international communication easier, especially to and from developing countries, where mail delivery may be unreliable, excruciatingly slow, or both.

If you have an Internet account, e-mail services are provided at no additional charge. The only issue is the cost of the local call. But you can compose and answer e-mail offline, reducing the amount of time you need to stay connected. Since most e-mail is in plain text format, it take just seconds to send. The best thing of all is that it doesn't cost any more to send to 10, 100, or 1000 people than it costs to send to one.

Documents that are already in electronic form can be attached to your e-mail messages at no additional charge. If you can use e-mail in place of mailings, faxes, phone calls, you may see great reductions in your long-distance phone bills and your expenses for stationery, copying, printing, and postage, and you may save a great deal of time as well.

Interactive exchanges - response and discussion - are easier and faster with e-mail than with other written forms of communication (such as letters, memos, or faxes). Although e-mail does not allow the same level of interaction as phone calls or meetings, it can be the most economical way to exchange information with multiple contacts over long distances.

E-mail opens up new and more open avenues for active citizenship. As more and more people come online, the Net creates a remarkably inclusive forum for discussion. New discussion lists provide the opportunity for a level playing field, where people feel they can participate whatever their job title, where they live, their ethnicity, or disability. In cyberspace, it is perfectly acceptable for a community practitioner to engage in discussions with policymakers - including Members of Parliament.

Currently, much information dissemination is one-way and that way tends to be hierarchical, or "top-down." With the advent of e-mail, the trend is for information providers to invite feedback and it is easier for those receiving the information to respond. E-mail and Web sites are increasingly using an integrated strategy. When you visit a Web site, you may have the opportunity to add your own comments, make suggestions, or correct or challenge information. E-mail newsletters include web links to promote new content on the site and encourage your response to online polls or quizzes.

Asynchronicity is a big word with a simple definition. It simply means that the parties communicating with each other need not be doing so at the same time. Exchanging letters is a traditional means of asynchronous communication. But the more interactive forms of traditional communication, such as phone calls or meetings, require that all parties be available to participate simultaneously. As scheduling becomes more and more of a nightmare, asynchronous communication is increasingly important - think of all the phone tag you have played. (Your chance of reaching someone directly by phone during business hours has been estimated to be less than 20%! )

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