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Email signatures are utilitarian. On your work email they are not a place for employees to insert a cute quote or animated GIF (personal pet peeve here).
This is my email sig (on email it’s all one line):
Josh Morgan | Morgan/Dorado Public Relations | 916.941.0901 | Cell: 916.390.8328
Email is the primary method that employees of many company communicate with external audiences. It’s the job of PR/marketing to ensure consistency in external communications. Why should we stop at the content of the email that goes out? We shouldn’t.
I recommend that companies create a template for email signatures that clearly reflect their brand and serve the intended purpose. Also recommend that these are plain text, no pictures, gifs, fancy fonts etc. Why? As many people doI get a lot off my email on my Blackberry . When someone has a GIF as part of their signature it shows up as an attachment in myBlackberry email queue. I then open the attchment and get a waving flag or some other picture, something I’m not opposed to, but does it have to be at the end of every email that you send out?
If you have a favorite quote, use it on your personal email, but leave the work signature for ‘just the facts.’
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I couldn’t agree with you more! I believe some people see their email signature as a personal creative outlet in the mundane, corporate world. Maybe they should just take up painting, acting or blogging.
My favorite is when people put there entire resume in their signature. I have a friend who puts, BA, MA, JD, MPA, #1 Dad, etc. Drives me nuts
I think you need to find a new friend.