Communicating Through Technology
In order to use technology to our advantage, and prevent it from becoming a barrier…we need new skills.

Communicating effectively in a mobile and global workplace is difficult. In order to meet this challenge, new communication vehicles are being developed and marketed exponentially faster than ever before. These technological advancements are theoretically designed to enhance our ability to communicate, to stay connected, and to be more efficient as business people. However, very often the opposite effect occurs.
Beyond the already constant in-pouring of email, we now need to effectively manage and utilize text messaging, live chat, video and teleconferencing, PDAs, mobile computing, web meetings, and many other elements of the Web 2.0 experience, including social networking, and instant streaming of all available forms of information. How do we best communicate through these various media?

