Future trends in business communications: Phone less, eMail less, Social more

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Future trends in business communications: Phone less, eMail less, Social more

http://www.mediafuturist.com/2008/11/future-trends-i.html
Scanned by: gleonhard about 1 month ago

a significant shift in how people communicate, professionally as well as socially and privately. While only 7-10 years ago, most of the work was done on the phone (I recall living in .com boom-town numero uno, San Francisco, and using up all my 2000 AT&T minutes every single month!), eMail soon became big with everyone, and now eMail is still pretty much the prime vehicle of business communications - thus the rise of blackberry mania. Use of the phone declined heavily as a result. Now, it seems that... well, eMail is for old people. About 18 months ago, the use of 'social' business platforms such as LinkedIn became more prevalent, and all of a sudden people started to have 'professional' conversations on LinkedIn, Ryze (remember??), Xing, and then, soon, Facebook, Myspace, and now... Twitter, Skype and GTalk.

Type: Forecast | Also: Culture, Business & Work |

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