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title: Digital Communication Etiquette
description: Digital Communication Etiquette focuses on the norms and best practices for professional interaction across online platforms. You will understand how to convey tone, maintain professionalism, and avoid misunderstandings in emails, messaging apps, and video conferences.
category: personal-development
subcategory: communication
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/digital-communication-etiquette
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# Digital Communication Etiquette

Digital Communication Etiquette focuses on the norms and best practices for professional interaction across online platforms. You will understand how to convey tone, maintain professionalism, and avoid misunderstandings in emails, messaging apps, and video conferences.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Ask a Manager

Long-running advice column by Alison Green answering reader-submitted questions on job applications, cover letters, interviews, salary negotiation, and workplace conflict. Readers see how hiring managers actually evaluate candidates and get scripts for difficult conversations with employers.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.askamanager.org/

**Tags:** job-search, cover-letters, job-interviews, salary-negotiation, workplace-advice

### 2. hbr.org

Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://hbr.org

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

### 3. mindtools.com

Mind Tools offers practical business and management resources—articles, templates, checklists, and self-assessments—covering business communication, leadership, teamwork, meetings, and professional writing.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://mindtools.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

## Books

### 1. Digital Body Language

**Author:** Erica Dhawan

A guide to how tone, trust and intent are read through email, chat and video calls. Readers learn to interpret digital cues, avoid common misreadings, and write messages that are clear, appropriately warm and respectful of colleagues' time.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0008476527?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, personal-development, communication

### 2. Work Rules!

**Author:** Laszlo Bock

Google's former head of People Operations explains the company's hiring, performance management, compensation and culture practices, drawing on internal data and behavioural research. Readers can judge which people-management practices are evidence-backed and adapt them to smaller organisations.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1444792385?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, personal-development, communication

## Courses

### 1. Virtual Communication

A four-module beginner course from the University of California, Irvine, part of its Remote Leadership for Managers specialization. Learners practise building trust, strengthening working relationships and collaborating in distributed teams, and reflect on common remote-work communication challenges.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/communication-in-remote-work

**Tags:** courses, personal-development, communication

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