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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

Now more than ever, we are working and socializing digitally.

That means more Slack messages, emails, Zoom meetings.

For more than a year and a half, a lot of us who never expected to work from home.

We have been communicating digitally with our colleagues, and it can be very hard to read

a room.

To pick up on any sort of body language or social cues, now we've all misinterpreted a message,

put an exclamation mark at the wrong time, or read, per my last email and thought,

oh, they must be upset.

So how do we communicate effectively in this new world?

How do we read the digital room?

Well, we've got the perfect guest to guide us this week.

It's Erica Dewan, Erica's a collaboration expert, and the author of Digital Body Language,

how to build trust and connection no matter the distance.

Erica's going to teach us the laws of digital communication.

Yes, there are laws.

She'll outline the mistakes we make, and she'll give us a cheat sheet for how to get

a lot better, fast.

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