JULY IS CELL PHONE COURTESY MONTH!

Jacqueline Whitmore, an authority on business etiquette, founded NATIONAL CELL PHONE COURTESY MONTH with an eye toward instilling in mobile phone users more awareness and respect for their surroundings and the people in those surroundings.  Ms. Whitmore discourages "multi-tasking" and hopes people will pay more attention to what they are doing.

To see her  Courtesy Steps,  click on this link:
http://www.etiquetteexpert.com/cellphone.html 

On the same page, you can take her cell phone courtesy quiz.

But first, you can take the Fogelson Library Cell Phone Courtesy Quiz.

1. When you get a call on your wireless phone while in the library, you:
   
   
   1.  Talk loudly. Cell phone connections are not that good, and there aren't very many people in the library anyway.
   2. Get caught up in the conversation and do not realize how loud you are talking.
   3. Talk in a normal tone. Cell phone technology is so good that a whisper could be heard on the other end. 
   4. Won't know you got the call until you leave the library and power on the phone again. 
   
   
2. When entering Fogelson Library, you:
   
   
   1. Leave your phone at the Circulation Desk and ask the staff member on duty to take messages for you and to deliver the call to you in the Southwest Room if it is important.
   2. Put your phone on vibrate.
   3. Keep your phone on its normal volume, so you do not miss any calls and so everyone else can enjoy your trendy ringtone.
   4. Turn your phone off or place it on silent so you will not disrupt others in the building.
    
3.  You are in class and your phone rings.  You:
   
   
   1. Don't worry about it ringing; you have already set your phone on silent.
   2. Take the call. It is more important than the class, duh.
   3. Remove yourself from the classroom to take the call. You have already alerted your instructor and colleagues that you are expecting a call.
   4. Won't know you got the call until you return to your dorm room and check for messages because that's where you left your phone.
   
   
4. You are out to dinner with friends at a restaurant--or the CSF Cafe--and your phone rings. You:
   
   
   1. Apologize to your companions and let the call go to voicemail. Then turn off the ringer.
   2. Step outside to take the call. You had already told your friends that you are expecting a call.
   3. Take the call at the table. Your friends are on their cell phones, too, so nobody will care.
   4. Won't know you got the call until you go back to Fogelson Library and ask if it is in the lost & found.
   
   
5. You are in the grocery store and your classmate alerts you on your mobile device. You:
   
   
   1. Ask her to call back in 30 minutes when you're at Fogelson Library.
   2. Continue the conversation on speaker phone as you shop.
   3. You turn off the speaker-phone to continue the conversation. 
   4. Will check your messages when you get back to your car, where the phone is.
   
   
   
   
   And, finally, don't save your class assignments on your mobile phone!  
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