
	Friday Fax A Weekly Summary of Polywater^® News of Incredible Importance

Issue #491

One of the fundamentals of a successful presentation is the overview at the beginning of material presented. Tell them what you're going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you told them. This "pre-summary" is particularly important in cable pulling lubricant presentations to engineers. Experience has shown that electrical and telcom engineers have vast knowledge about their systems and technology, but often know little about cable pulling science or lubricant chemistry. Many engineers agree to meet reluctantly, assuming that lubes have no relevance to them and that specifying them would be like trying to control the brand of toilet paper in the jobsite porta-potty. If you don't explain upfront why they should care, you may lose them before you even get into the proof of your argument. And, of course, they should care; inadequate lubrication or improper lubricant choice can lead to thousands of dollars worth of damaged cable and lost labor. Shaving pennies on the least expensive part of an installation (lubricant) is foolish. APC has canned PowerPoint presentations for your use in helping prevent this. Talk with your regional manager for materials and training.

Your customers (and the IT departments that serve them) are trying to protect themselves from the deluge of spam hitting their email inbox. Unfortunately, in doing so they may inadvertently miss out on important Polywater newsletters. APC newsletters are HTML-based and by nature often assumed by many blocking programs to be spam. Even if recipients subscribe to a newsletter, their filter may never let them receive it. Make sure customers add the Polywater domain (@polywater.com) to their filtering software "whitelist", or least add the Polywater email addresses specific to their subscriptions: tkeditor@polywater.com for Technical Talk; or jonnes@polywater.com for Juice, Bits, and the Friday Fax. Often the IT department needs to be contacted for assistance. The effort is worth it.

The Friday Fax Editor's Joke of the Week

The Joke

Teenager Test Results. Q: Name the four seasons. A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink. A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep, and canoeists. Q: How is dew formed? A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire. Q: What is a planet? A: A body of earth surrounded by sky. Q: What causes the tides in the oceans? A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight. Q: What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on? A: If you are buying a house, they will insist you are well endowed. Q: In a democratic society, how important are elections? A: Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election.

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