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2012-08-15 12:03 PM

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Subject: adding M-dot logo to email signature?
Has anyone added the M-dot logo in their email signatures for either personal or professional emails? If you have, has anything resulted from it?


2012-08-15 12:08 PM
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Maybe a "cease and desist" order?
2012-08-15 12:09 PM
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amills1210 - 2012-08-15 12:03 PM

Has anyone added the M-dot logo in their email signatures for either personal or professional emails? If you have, has anything resulted from it?


It's a trademarked logo, so I'd be careful about doing it on any kind of professional correspondance. As for personal emails, you can do what you want, but speaking personally, I would think it was pretty lame. Depending on the industry you work in, I would think that the people who either didn't know what it meant, or who knew what it meant and thought it was sorta weird to put it on your email signature would vastly outnumber the people who would see it and think, "cool!".

2012-08-15 12:11 PM
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Personally, I'd think it as sad unless they were a personal trainer, tri coach or something where it would be relevant.  I understand that people are proud of their accomplishments but damn!

2012-08-15 12:12 PM
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mktoson - 2012-08-15 12:11 PM

Personally, I'd think it as sad unless they were a personal trainer, tri coach or something where it would be relevant.  I understand that people are proud of their accomplishments but damn!



My sentiments.
2012-08-15 12:20 PM
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No but I often include a pic of my M-dot tat in my emails


2012-08-15 12:21 PM
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Probably just ridicule
2012-08-15 12:22 PM
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Where I work, m-dot refers to mass flow rate.

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2012-08-15 12:44 PM
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I don't know of anyone in my professional life that would know what it was. In my personal life the only people that would know would be the ones I already bore with tri talk enough already!!
2012-08-15 12:55 PM
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What do you think when you receive an email from someone with an SSI logo, or something about National Badminton Champion, in their sig line?

That's probably the same reaction you'd get from others. 

I was told not to include anything irrelevant to your field in your professional correspondence.  It'd only make you look unprofessional. 

You may do whatever you want in your personal emails.

2012-08-15 12:57 PM
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If I received an email, professionally or personally, with an M-dot in the ScotiaMultisport block, I would think it was really strange (unless it was someone from WTC).

Shane


2012-08-15 1:10 PM
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Not unless I worked there or was a coach specializing in IM races. Well even then I wouldn't want to tempt the copyright fates. Tattoo, yes, email, not even a thought.

2012-08-15 1:14 PM
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It's cool and all to have done it.  But don't be one of "those" guys...
2012-08-15 1:16 PM
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It's easier to delete something on an email signature once you get sick of it.

 

2012-08-15 1:18 PM
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gsmacleod - 2012-08-15 12:57 PM If I received an email, professionally or personally, with an M-dot in the ScotiaMultisport block, I would think it was really strange (unless it was someone from WTC). Shane

 

I have received several emails from staff at WTC and they do not have it in their own signature.

2012-08-15 1:40 PM
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Just get the tatoo and go with that.


2012-08-15 1:44 PM
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I don't think you can hear people laughing over the interwebs.  But that just might make it possible.
2012-08-15 1:49 PM
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amills1210 - 2012-08-15 1:03 PM Has anyone added the M-dot logo in their email signatures for either personal or professional emails? If you have, has anything resulted from it?

Perfectly acceptable... as long as you're the type of person who would add the Golden-Arches logo to your emails after you've eaten a Big Mac...

2012-08-15 1:52 PM
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I wouldn't do it.

That being said, if your goal is to let people that you email know that you've done and IM, I think it would be a pretty effective way to accomplish that.

Not everyone knows what the M-Dot logo is, so you might want to accentuate it with something like

(insert M-Dot logo here)
Ironman (insert name of IM here)
2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run...All in one day.
(Insert finishing time here)
(Insert overall and AG placing here)
(Insert upcoming IM races planned here)

2012-08-15 2:11 PM
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amills1210 - 2012-08-15 1:03 PM Has anyone added the M-dot logo in their email signatures for either personal or professional emails? If you have, has anything resulted from it?

Perfectly acceptable... as long as you're the type of person who would add the Golden-Arches logo to your emails after you've eaten a Big Mac...

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You beat me to it!!!

Told my wife if and when I finish IMLP I would like to be addressed with the salutation "Ironman " before all conversations

2012-08-15 2:30 PM
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thebigb - 2012-08-15 1:20 PM No but I often include a pic of my M-dot tat in my emails

I put my splits in my Outlook signature



2012-08-15 2:56 PM
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Lame - honestly, unless the recipient of your email is a triathlete, he/she may not fully appreciate what the accomplishment really means.  Before I started tris, an ironman just sounded like long distances but never really gave it much thought beyond that.  I've still only done sprints but I have a new appreciation for what a HIM and IM really means.  

On the other hand, before I started running about 2 years ago, I never thought I'd run anything longer than a 5k...ever.  With some encouragement from my wife, I decided to tackle half marathon training.  I got hooked pretty quickly and now started training for my first 26.2 in December.  When I decided to attempt a triathlon last year, I looked for the shortest pool swim I could find (200 yds) because I was gassed after about 50 yds.  I'm still not a fast swimmer but just completed my first non-stop one-mile OWS this morning.  All of a sudden a HIM seems within reach next year (with proper training of course).  IM is still a dream somewhere out there in a future.



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2012-08-15 4:22 PM
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sulross - 2012-08-15 1:12 PM
mktoson - 2012-08-15 12:11 PM

Personally, I'd think it as sad unless they were a personal trainer, tri coach or something where it would be relevant.  I understand that people are proud of their accomplishments but damn!

My sentiments.

I'm both, and I still wouldn't consider it.  I think it would just be odd, and scream "look at me" a little too much.

2012-08-15 4:36 PM
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IMO, I think that would be over the top.  Along with tats.  There are levels of being gung-ho about your accomplishments.  Some get tats, some talk about it...non-stop, some buy every piece of apparel.  To each their own...
2012-08-15 4:39 PM
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DannyUncanny - 2012-08-15 12:22 PM Where I work, m-dot refers to mass flow rate.

FTW!  Only because that's what m-dot means to me too.

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