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Thanks to Brett Johnson, for pointing out that there’s a feature in Windows that might help reduce the volume of the well-meaning noise pollutant, something known as Sidetone. This brilliant spoof of conference calls in real life features most of them, but not the blast-radius shouter that is probably more of a nuisance to people physically sitting next to him/her than to others on the call. Keeping track of the characters on conference calls could be a new type of buzzword bingo – from the people who stay muted the whole time (the only word they say being “bye”, at the end), to the unmuted furious typer/clicker/lunch eater/talker-to-somebody-else. Posted in Productivity, Skype Tagged Lync, skype, Skype for business Tip o’ the Week #293 – STOP SHOUTING ON CONF CALLS The consumer Skype app has lots more emoji/emoticons than the Business version, as you might expect – generally speaking, there’s not a lot of business need for ? or dancing gran icons. Other handy shortcuts for Skype for Business include (b), (d), (y), (n), (cic), (!), (e), (run), (k) – careful, mind… Why not try them out on your colleagues next time you’re IMing? Just hover over the symbol and you’ll see the shortcut you can type.
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(t) or (call) will insert the symbol to the left, or (c) or (coffee) will show the cup symbol. If you’re using Skype (consumer, and Skype for Business), though, there’s a shortcut for each emoticon, that you can type to insert the relevant symbol – eg. To insert emojis into your mail, IM or whatever, you could type the foundation characters – like ? or ? – or copy & paste the relevant symbol from a source such as. Over recent years, emoji have become more mainstream and therefore the interpretation of symbols across different platforms has grown in importance – if you enter ? into many apps, you’ll get a – as configured in the AutoCorrect function in Office, and natively supported in lots of other applications, and if you send a text message with emoji in it, you’d hope that it gets interpreted correctly at the other end. If you’re bored sticking pins in your eyes, you could be watching a Turkey at the flicks, though you’re more likely just an end-user of the emoji symbols.
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Gradually, icons of a variety of smileys helped convey a wider range of meaning – becoming known collectively by the portmanteau, “ emoticons”. In modern times, the smiley has evolved after the grinning yellow dot being used in various waves of popular culture, the textual facial-expression-on-its-side became more common as people flocked online and started using email and instant messaging. The use of the original ? smiley goes back 35 years, but written symbolism to convey emotion goes back to the 17 th century, maybe even in the days of Lincoln. “Smileys” have been around in one form or another for a surprisingly long time.