This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today we're going to talk about the written equivalent of voice tone and body language, the nonverbal parts of written word.

Here in the 21st century, we are all on display, all of the time. When you start a new job,

within moments your bosses and co-workers have Googled you, binged you, Facebooked you,

linked in you, and Instagrammed you. They've read what you've written. They've seen your poetry blog,

which means that all of it every single bit will factor into how they perceive you. Oh, joy. Content and form

different. The online world is a dangerous and scary place if we say the wrong things. You declare,

I love rhubarb cupcake, all overcase, no punctuation, and within seven hours, the rhubarb

people's collective is organizing a letter-writing campaign to get you declared a rhubarb terrorist who commits the unpardonable sin of transforming this

most delicious of plants into lowly cupcakes. That's because they didn't like the content

of your message. Content is the actual words and the information in your post. Form is how you convey your content.

It's the writing equivalent of voice tone, body language, and other nonverbal communication.

Form makes an unconscious impression.

How you express your ideas matters.

When people read your writing, they'll respond consciously to your content.

Ban the evil rhubarb defiler who

desecrates all rhubarb by making it into lowly cupcakes. Unconsciously, however, they'll respond

to the form. Wow, that rhubarb loser didn't capitalize or use punctuation. We must shame this

incompetent doofus publicly. Now, this is a dreadful reaction. The only thing worse than being

harassed by the people's rhubarb collective is being harassed and not even having the dignity

of being taken seriously by the collective. With the rise of social media and texting,

we've been going through different conventions for different media. You write in one style

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