Do you call people after hours because you know they won't answer their phone -- and you can just leave a voicemail message? Do you send people emails in response to their voicemails? Bubble Motion, a tech company in Singapore, working with Swedish telco Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, now offers a new voice messaging service. (Wall Street Journal subscription required.)
What's new about it? Rather than call someone, not get through, and leave a message for them to reply to, you can simply record an audio message for them using your phone -- and send it to them. Think audio SMS. Part of me is excited about the possibility: More immediate, more personal, more human than email, SMS, or voicemail. But part of me is skeptical: If you really want to communicate with someone, are such quick hits overly passive?
What applications do you think this has in the workplace?
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Recent Comments | 2 Total
September 29, 2005 at 2:41pm by R. Bezman
Is the primary difference between this and leaving a voice mail message - that you do not even attempt to speak with the person?
September 30, 2005 at 3:17pm by roger fulton
look, if I'm chasing someone, trying to sell them something and they are dodging me, I'll trying anything to get their body on the phone:ANYTHING.
I'm old school, you don't stop until I've speared the prey and hauled them into the boat. I have never had a mentor, superior, boss, whatever the "buzz word" is these days who has pulled my pit-bull like approach off the prey, telling me,
"enough, they are NOT going to buy -- move on."
Absent of that, I'm on the case til I bag it. If this new gadget helps, count me in.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/rogerroost/
Roger Fulton
Yuma, Arizona