This presentation focuses on electronic communication. One of the main targets is electronic mail.

1. Electronic Communnication
K. Cameron-Smikle

2. What is Communication?
• Communication is the process of exchanging information. • People
communicate to convey their thoughts, ideas, and feelings to other.
The process of communication is inherent to all human life and
includes verbal, nonverbal, print, and electronic processes.

3. What is Electronic Communication?
• Electronic communication consist of three basic components, a
transmitter, a communication channel (medium), and a receiver.
Messages are converted to electrical signals and sent over electrical
or fiber-optic cable or free space to a receiver.

4. Types of Electronic Communication
• E-mail
• • Podcasting
• • Discussion Boards
• • Blogs
• • Text Messaging
• • Chatting, etc.

5. ELECTRONIC MAIL
• Electronic mail is a method of exchanging messages between people
using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic
version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant only
physical mail