Ryan
Court Jester
In my experience (and poor typing skills!) it helps FAR more than it hurts.
Why would that disappoint you? I would expect that social media account managers often have to post on the fly when they are not necessarily in the office, so an iPad or other tablet/mobile phone makes sense to me here.Honestly, I'd be quite disappointed if a large corporation had their Twitter account manager use an iPad to make posts rather than a regular computer, so Auto-Correct shouldn't be an issue.
Thanks for reminding me. I need to change my laptop settings.Autocorrect is also build into OS X, so they could be using a regular computer.
That may or may not be the worst website I have ever seen.here is a site with honest "amtrak" advertising. www.amtrek.net
Bring Special Toiletries
Just like a hotel, we provide shampoo, soap and bottled water in all of our rooms. If your beauty regimen requires something special (hey, the train is a judge-free place), please be sure to bring it. That includes, toothpaste, mouthwash, body lotion, hair conditioner, hair spray/gel, hairdryers and shower caps. The best part about traveling by train? No liquids restrictions! (Emphasis on shampoo is mine.)
I think what we're running into here is that Amtrak has promoted its services across a wide variety of documents and platforms, & many of these documents (or the employees who write them) have not been updated to reflect the changes yet. It will probably happen eventually, but paying someone to go through and update all of these documents RIGHT NOW would probably cost more than whatever they saved by cutting these items in the first place.From Amtrak's Official Blog: http://blog.amtrak.com/2014/02/bring-overnight-train-ride/
Bring Special Toiletries
Just like a hotel, we provide shampoo, soap and bottled water in all of our rooms. If your beauty regimen requires something special (hey, the train is a judge-free place), please be sure to bring it. That includes, toothpaste, mouthwash, body lotion, hair conditioner, hair spray/gel, hairdryers and shower caps. The best part about traveling by train? No liquids restrictions! (Emphasis on shampoo is mine.)
There's nothing stopping them from trying now.Maybe it has become time to hand over the LD trains to the private railroad companies.
Very true. I'm not a large corporation, but I use an iPad 98+% of the time - even when not traveling.Why would that disappoint you? I would expect that social media account managers often have to post on the fly when they are not necessarily in the office, so an iPad or other tablet/mobile phone makes sense to me here.Honestly, I'd be quite disappointed if a large corporation had their Twitter account manager use an iPad to make posts rather than a regular computer, so Auto-Correct shouldn't be an issue.
How classy. Are there any adults working in Amtrak's Bureau of Tweets?A new Tweet this morning:
https://twitter.com/Amtrak/status/460810936774049792
(I love how they show the upside down paper cup with pens jammed into it...at least we know the photo was taken on a real diner since
an ad agency would never put a prop like that into a shot!)
You don't think it's even a little unprofessional to post official public facing comments from a device that provides little in the way of realtime feedback and lots of clumsy second guessing? Sure you can make it work by being super careful with your posts but at that point is the device really making things easier? Many years ago I went to work for a company that provided laptops as part of their employment. After making the move from desktop to laptop the improvement in my mobility and productivity was so great that I never looked back. A dozen laptops later I never travel anywhere without having one nearby. When the notebook era arrived I made that transition as well. After that the law of diminishing returns started to kick in. Netbooks were extremely portable but had screens and keyboards that were just a little too small to get real work done in a timely fashion. Eventually netbooks were reduced to tiny screens called tablets and the transition from productivity to consumption was complete. Which is fine I suppose, but so far as I can tell nobody is getting a full day's work done on these devices. Nearly everyone in my office owns a tablet, including me, and none of us can replace our laptops with them, at least not yet.Why would that disappoint you? I would expect that social media account managers often have to post on the fly when they are not necessarily in the office, so an iPad or other tablet/mobile phone makes sense to me here.Honestly, I'd be quite disappointed if a large corporation had their Twitter account manager use an iPad to make posts rather than a regular computer, so Auto-Correct shouldn't be an issue.
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