The Science of Communicating & Marketing Your Business

Well, probably not. All humans, whether they care to admit it or not, are on a quest to discover what's important to them. Some people spend their entire lives and never learn the secret. What a curse that must be, to never know one's own ultimate truth, to always have a sense that somewhere in some place and at some time there's something else and you'll never know what it is. Or perhaps not even recognize it when it comes.

As for me? I wrote in Tag, I'm It! "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the most wonderful, beautiful thing that has ever happened to me will be the next thing that happens to me."

One of my regular readers sent me the following to use either directly or as templates for my email auto-responder. I have one active now as I'm actually not getting emails right now. I was tempted, I admit, to use one from the list. The one I am using, as mentioned previously in this arc, is just another avatar projected into cyberspace.

Enjoy!

Best "Out of Office" email reply #2: You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.

Best "Out of Office" email reply #3: I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from holiday on July 10th. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

Best "Out of Office" email reply #4: Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

Best "Out of Office" email reply #5: The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (When you return, see how many in-DUH-viduals did this over and over).

Best "Out of Office" email reply #6: Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system...You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

Best "Out of Office" email reply #7: I've run away to join a different circus.

Best "Out of Office" email reply #8: I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as 'Margaret'. Bob.

Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics.

Links for this post:

• The Curse of Social Networks
• Email Bankruptcy blog posts
• The Eventing Yourself Blog arc
• Going Off the Grid
• The MediaFree and Gridless arc
• MediaFreeZones
• Proof I'm a Luddite
• Unplugging... why is it so hard?
• Voluntary Simplification blog posts

• IMedia Brand Summit on 9-12 Sept 07
• XChange on 20-21 Sept 07
• DC Emetrics Summit on 14-17 Oct '07
• Society for New Communications Research Annual Research Symposium & Awards Gala on 5-6 Dec 07 in Boston.