Communication. Are you good at keeping in touch with people? When you are on the phone, do you talk more than you listen? Do you think real cards are better than e-cards?
Althougth it's consider less personal I beleive that technology it's more effective when you want to get people closer and really fast. There are almost no barriers for technology such as geography and condition.
here I want to share with you some of the new ways to communicate:
Electronic Mail and Discussion Groups
Facilities such as electronic mail, usually called email, are the most used form of network communications. As the name implies, it means sending messages to other people, but in electronic form rather than through the post office. e-mail makes it easy to send a message not just to one person, but to several or even hundreds at the same time. This mass mailing capability has led to facilities such as discussion groups and mailing lists, where people who are interested in a particular subject can post topics for the whole group to read and discuss. Moderated discussion groups take this concept a step farther by having someone facilitate and consolidate the flow of communication as a service to group members.
Electronic Newsgroups
Consider how the Internet is changing the ways we distribute news. With thousands of new information sources, people are no longer locked into traditional communications channels such as newspapers or television, which require large capital investments. Electronic newsgroups are similar to reading your local newspaper, except you read them on-line and each newsgroup has a specific focus, such as politics or pets or almost any other subject you can imagine. Anyone can start a newsgroup, discussion group or a listserve (a kind of electronic mailing list which people subscribe to) based around communities of interest.
These communities can become powerful. Intel's public relations fiasco over miscalculations with their Pentium chip some time ago was largely due to Internet communications that proliferated the issue before Intel's PR department or the traditional media knew anything about it. This incident is another example of how people and organizations must adapt to the new patterns and channels of communication in a networked world
On these days every person have access to Internet and portability it's going to be the top business achievement for the whole world no matter if you are maker or consumer. Stay in touch have a new meanning and it's absolutely neccesary to learn to use these new great ways to established a communication to the world.
