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Gevril and Haurex Italia dinner during Baselworld in March 2011 with Larry Brauner standing in the background.
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Communication
Filed Under Communication, Networking and Marketing Strategy
People have been communicating for thousands of years. There are two basic forms of communication, synchronous and asynchronous.During synchronous communication all parties interact without any time lapse. Face-to-face speaking, telephone conversations and Instant Messaging are all synchronous. The word “Instant” just about sums it up.
During asynchronous communication parties interact at intervals, either because of convenience or out of necessity. Mail, messengers, fax mail, voice mail and e-mail are all asynchronous.
The accessibility and speed of fax mail, voice messaging and e-mail have revolutionized and popularized asynchronous communication. People appreciate the reply-when-you-want convenience of it as well as its ability to transcend time zones and facilitate global communication.
In major corporations e-mail has become the primary method of contact. Memos are passe and telephone calls are considered somewhat intrusive. But don’t expect phone calls and staff meetings to ever disappear, because, as I indicated in a previous post, people crave the High Touch intimacy that meetings afford them.
However, out in the world-at-large e-mail has taken a big hit recently. Spam filtering by Internet service providers and concerns about privacy have led the populace to seek something more reliable and secure. Enter social networking sites! These sites are capable of providing us with the functionality that e-mail did in the past plus a big additional benefit, file sharing.
The asynchronous nature of social networking sites, and the ability of these sites to replace e-mail, have contributed greatly to the popularity of this form of interaction.
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Tags: High Tech/High Touch, instant messaging, Internet, intimacy, social networking sites, synchronous communication
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I agree with this article. Although email has been widely used in many companies as a means of communication, we still keep the phone, and the fax can not be abandoned. Because there are several factors that can not replace the phone and fax.
I think the web, email, social networking has it’s place in many forms… entertainment, communication, job hunting, keeping in touch with distant friends/family/associates, BUT it also has contributed to laziness.
Instead of walking to someone’s desk in an office to chat, people IM, Facebook, even call on the phone. Although that is fine once in awhile, the human mind/body needs real interaction as well.
Keep up your Facebook and IMing, but take a stroll to someones desk to talk every once in awhile!
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@ttmyt With everyday acquaintance, you’ll realize the real importance of every one of our means of communication, including dropping in on someone’s office. With further business acquaintance, it’s clear that there is a time and place for each method of communicating.
The big advantage of asynchronous communication is being able to think and weigh before communicating, as well as log the content, which should improve the quality of all reasons for lag time communication in back and forth bits.