Disclaimer: Emulex is a client of Paladin Advisors Group, where I am GM of New Media (or whatever title I have these days) - Louis Gray

All those links in every e-mail are clickable, by the way. The B is for the main blog page. - Louis Gray

what's the last logo? oh... heh. - Jim Hearts FF

You can see all these logos on their Web site in the bottom right corner as well: http://www.emulex.com/ - Louis Gray

Including replies? because I really can't stand full signatures on email replies. If there's a lot of back and forth, the signature just adds clutter and gets in the way of the content. I like it on the first email in the exchange and then a perhaps a shortened version thereafter. - pea

Pea, I think that depends on the user's Outlook settings. It is optional. - Louis Gray

But in terms of getting the message across that this company is connected, yes, this setup certainly makes that very clear. - pea

Oh if only Gmail allowed some HTMLy signatures! :( - Travis Koger

GMail receives the sig just fine. Tested there and .Mac and Outlook. - Louis Gray

So in other words, they don't "get" e-mail? :) - Steve Lynch from twhirl

If I saw an email signature like this, I'd click on all of the links just to see how active they are. Some people have all these accounts but aren't active, so what's the point? But of course this doesn't apply to you Louis. I'm just saying in general. - Violet Mae Lim

Violet, these are active. I promise. :) - Louis Gray

If that company were REALLY into Social Media, it would have just one link, to your Google Profile: http://www.google.com/profile... ;-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, why show favoritism to Google? There's little actual social happening there so far. - LogEx

But why make them click twice? That would just annoy me. EDIT: Also, I could maybe understand if the company didn't have its own site, but it does, why send them away from their own home on the web and give Google all that traffic? - pea

Logical: I'm just having some fun with Louis. I personally hate tons of icons on things. So complicated. How do I pick? ;-) - Robert Scoble

At some point, will you discuss the Paladin Advisor's Group more fully? - DGentry

Louis: Looks nice! Looks better than my typical signature where I just have a link to my website and then a link to http://www.travishartwell.net/blog... that lists on my online accounts. - Travis B. Hartwell

snazzy! - Mark Essel

Robert has a free pass to tease or criticize anything I do. It's 100% fair game. I think Google Profiles aren't known well for folks to click through to yet. That said, Robert, bring it on. Here's the company's profile: http://www.google.com/profile... - Louis Gray

And DGentry, yes, we can talk about Paladin soon. Promise. - Louis Gray

Louis, I'm curious about the rationale for putting the Twitter link above the company website in the Google Profile? - LogEx

LE: None. That's been fixed. :) Probably not thinking too much about it. - Louis Gray

Logical: Twitter is the new website. - Robert Scoble

Robert, now I know you're joking! - LogEx

Logical: actually I was joking about the Google Profile thing, not kidding about the Twitter thing. - Robert Scoble

Robert... after all you've said about Twitter and the fragility of SNS relative to your own brand? - LogEx

Yeah, but where's your email address? LOL - David Libby

Didn't you hear....E-Mail is Dead! - Owen Greaves

I wish gMail supported HTML signatures. Been wanting to do something like this for years. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

you can do html in gmail, with a firefox plugin Blank Canvas http://blankcanvasweb.com/pages... - Robert Higgins

Yes, e-mail is dead. It is also required in order to create an account on how many Web sites!?! I think I was required to link my OpenID account to an e-mail address. So much for Identitiy 2.0.... - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Looks sharp imho. - Rob Schieber

what, no My Space link? - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Louis - I like the links on the home page, but EVERY employee gets that? I can tell you that lots of storage people are going to be scared by all of the "interwebs" stuff. I <3 the Emulex guys and know they're trying to update their image, but I'd think that most of them have bigger issues that learning to explain what FriendFeed and SlideShare are when people look at them funny. - Stuart Miniman

Stu, I think I should use the word "optional". It's optional to everyone and every e-mail. And it's fine if some conservative industries aren't ready yet. It's time to shake it up. - Louis Gray

Is it using Wisestamp? Very nice. FYI - Wisestamp is free, works w/ Gmail, Posterous, even the links. - Liza

Is this seriously your sig for emails? Bit busy don't you think? Wouldn't a push to their website that has the actual list be a better use of that space? Also with email clients that don't do HTML its going to be lost. - CW™

It's a bit much - Rodfather

The nice thing about Wisestamp is you can delete the icons in gmail, if it is going to someone who you think has no idea what Slideshare is. Otherwise, wd be a pain. - Liza

In my training of employees on how to do a Email Signature, (where the corp hasn't stated a standard) is to plan for plain text clients. Have your information there. Do one font only and stick to that. Nothing fancy in the font either. Get the information there so that the recipients can contact you or get more information about you. Company Logo's are only if you really need them. Key thing is to provide a sort of Business Card (information how to get a hold of you) at the bottom of emails. - CW™

I tend to fall into the plain text camp. my signature is as follows: " -- 505.652.2878 http://sarahvela.net @orchid8 everywhere" - Call me Bronco

Yeah, I like simple signatures. - Andrew C

All the hyperlinks scream I'm spam & it will likely be treated as such by many mail programs. - Rick Frank

Rick, very good feedback. It will be considered. - Louis Gray

Too much. Too busy. I'd get rid of the office line, the link to lousgray.com, and definitely the emulex logo. Anyway that's just my opinion :) - Eric Florenzano

They get it better than I do. I have to admit, I do not recognize all of those icons as they do! - Randy Rambo

check out http://www.socialmediav.com they have a killer signature widget, both for personal and corporate brands! :) - sera aktüre

Office and mobile phone? You need Google voice. I was able to get a cool number, (areacode) 4 Julio F - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio

Just a simple link to a homepage should be enough, small description about what you do, and phone numbers if you're into that kind of thing. - Peter Stuifzand

Too many links in an email signature can cause the email to be flagged as spam. you need to test it out before using it. never can be 100% certain... - Mike Nencetti

Are those custom icons, or something pulled from the web? - Spencer

How does that degrade? Are there alt tags? Does the text/alternative or text/plain part properly remove the HTML and still preserve the pertinent information? Accessibility is just as if not more important than having something flashy IMHO. (Disclaimer: I use a text MUA and you'll get me to accept HTML mail sometime shortly after the sun suffers hydrogen exhaustion...) - matthew john ernisse

yes but what's it mean? More is not bettter. - Jeremiah Owyang

Personally, it seems way too cluttered to me. I would rather just have a link to a page on the company's website that lists all of their various connections. I'm almost as jaded to those icons as I am to banner ads. If I want to know about the company I will be looking at their website first, then their blog, then whatever other services interest me, but I'll always go to their website first. If that's not impressive then it doesn't really matter what they're doing in other spaces. - Lindsay

they get it, but is it necessary? agree with others here that it's cluttered and sorta cliche already. - Bill Kinney

Looks good to me. Simple. IMO, I would (1) bump name size +2 pts (2) maybe italicize title or choose different font, so it will jump out at you, but not as much as name (3) remove "www." from website. (4) I haven't seen this in real-life to look at overall point sizes. Often people's business cards need ALL pts sizes +2 to +4. As my 72-yr old Dad always reminds me, older people can't see small stuff as well. Perhaps one reason why some IMO non-professional looking websites sell a lot of stuff - all their text is 18-24 pt & larger. Looks non-New York Times & yucky to me, but it's *readable* by many 40-80 yr olds. (5) what's the background design? plain white? off-white? - Mitchell Tsai

Simple and To The Point!!! The Purple " B" Logo...What Brand is That??? - @CtrlFollow

I had same question - never seen it! - Susan Beebe

@louis - how'd you create a company google profile? - andy brudtkuhl

Andy, A Google profile is just assigned to a GMail account. So if you create a centralized GMail account, you can make a company profile. This one, for example, is emulexinc@gmail.com. More on the strategy here: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

I think if they are all business related and it is for marketing- why not. There is another app nomee.com that does a card also. It is flash based so won't work on the iphone - Kathleen Cercone