Neil is attending a job fair. he knows that there is a lot of competition for these positions and wants to stand out. neil practices his greeting and "elevator" pitch in front of a mirror. he brings copies of his résumé and business cards. on each card, he notes his blog site address. on the blog, he has comments on several recent articles about new technologies in this field. neil is maximizing:

Neil is maximizing: Media Richness.

Explanation:

Media Richness refers to how effective each media of communication is able to convey a significant amount of information which makes it ease to understand a message when compared to other medias. A rich media is able to transfer sufficient information in a message to the sender in a way that a sender find it easy to completely understand the whole message with all its emotions and other factors associated with the message.

Richness in Communication

Below is the list of media ranked from the most amount of richness to the least.

-face-to-face conversation

-video conferencing

- telephone

-voicemail

-emails with images

-written letters and emails

-text message

From this list we can see that there is more information sent through email or phone conversation as compared to a text message. Face to face takes number one as a media that is rich, Neil is aware of this as she prepares for a job fair. There is so much to read face to face such as body langauge and your voic pitch is crucial which he practices on the elevator mirror.

Your looks , your emotions, your facial responses there is so much to read in face to face media of communication.

He also prepares his blog to ensure there is sufficient information.

c. taught scientists many new things about the earth, but not other planets.

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