Recommended Texts

Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.

Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed. Take a Tour

How These Texts Compare
Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
Canadian Editions
Teach Introduction to Business?

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Voice Mail

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Out of Voicemail Jail

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says the future of communication starts with getting rid of voicemail.
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Six Tips for Using Voice Mail Effectively

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

While perusing Wired.com’s How-To pages, I came across a handy and short checklist of essential elements to a professional voicemail message. I have rephrased and reprinted them below.
Every professional voicemail message should include these 6 essential elements:

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Better Voice Mail–Check Messages via Your Phone or the Web

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Arik Hesseldahl demonstrates YouMail, a web-based voice mail service that might cure non-iPhone owners of visual voice mail envy.
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Get Voice Mails in Your E-Mail with K7.net

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Voice mail can be an inefficient way to retrieve information, especially a long rambling message. However, with K7.net, you can listen to your phone messages via your mail.
You can receive both voice mail and messages without having to be at the office. Your voice messages and fax messages will be sent as e-mail attachments and [...]

My Hang-Up with Those Annoying Voice-Mail Machines

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I pressed zero and got the assistant’s voice mail. She invited me to leave a message or press zero to speak with a co-worker. I pressed zero and got the …

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Voice Mail Messages: How to Turn Your Voice from a Liability to an Asset

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Listen to this podcast about voice-mail messages.

Visual Voicemail on the Edge of Becoming the Next Big Trend

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Since last February, I’ve been getting my home voice mail by e-mail, and I love it. Browsing and picking which messages to listen to is much better than . . .

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How Important Is It to Streamline Communication

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Communication in any form plays an important role in our lives. It is very important to streamline communication whether you are conversing in person or through an age-old snail mail, e-mail, or over the phone.

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Voice Phishing a New Type Of E-Mail Scam

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Be on the lookout for an interesting new type of phishing scam that involves the use of the telephone.

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Got Voice Mail

Monday, June 18th, 2007

“There’s not anybody who really cares
about using voice messaging the way I envisioned it,” according to
Gordon Matthews, the inventor of voice mail. He never anticipated that
his automated message system would be used to confuse and frustrate
business callers. He didn’t foresee how many ways businesses could
devise to misuse his system.
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