When communicating, you must determine what if any technology should be used. In some cases email may be the best method to communicate with another employee. This all depends on the size of the company and when and where you each work. This of course would not make sense if you are in the next cubicle to the person you wish to speak with. Stand up and carry on the conversation! However, there are instances that communicating via email may be beneficial within the company or even instant messaging. Even cell phones have become an important form of communication. When someone leaves the company, you can still reach that person if necessary.
Thru our class we have had the opportunity to use many forms of communication. We were able to chat on line. This would be helpful if you want to speak with a couple different people at the same time and you are all able to get on line at the same time but may not all be able to meet face to face. Chat rooms are also helpful if you want to ask questions while using a demo on line or while listening and participating in a Webinar. The Webinar was another form of technology we had the opportunity to experience. Instead of taking time from your day and driving to a central location to listen to a power point presentation, it can be given right over the internet and all you need to do is log on. No travel time involved! This is a quick and convenient seminar.
Getting the opportunity to create the power point presentations were also very helpful. All of us have sat thru many classes and seminars with power point presentations. In many cases they are very boring and you feel like someone is standing there reading the screen to you. In our presentations we had the opportunity to use the power points with pictures and even some students were able to create power points with sound and movement. I had never done an actual power point presentation, so I learned a great deal from the other students on what power point can offer to make presentations more interesting. While creating our power point, our group also was able to use the web site "gotomeeting.com". This was another piece of technology we had the chance to use. Everyone in our group had different schedules, for us to get together was very difficult so we were able to get on the website and the phone and see each others computers thru this site. There is just so much out there, and everything is changing daily! We need to keep up with all the new technology or we will be lost.
Personal Experience
When I started to work years ago, I would go into a room and pull a disk off a hanging shelf . The disk weighed about 10 pounds and was bigger than a record album. That disk held the information for the company that I was working on. If you dropped that disk, everything would be lost. After I was done working on that company's books, I''d have to save the information, remove that disk from the computer and put the next company disk in, then presume my work. Now when I go into work, I sit down at my computer and I can pull files off my bosses computer, off the programmers computer, off of four other computers without leaving my seat. I send messages thru email to customers and vendors. I have also been reviewing job shop software packages. During this process I have been logging onto my computer, calling a salesperson in California and that person is conducting a sales pitch to me over the internet. She is showing me their software package and what it is capable of doing on my computer. This is how quickly technology is advancing and just a few ways it has effected my life.
Even when we did the power point presentation in class. The people in my group were able to use "gotomeeting.com" in order to go over our presentation. This saved all of us a lot of time traveling and we could spend more time on the presentation than in the vehicles getting to a central location.
References
You can go to the following web sites to find out more on communication technology:
http://www.querycat.com/faq/04f6b6ff8b7d7c1bd13ba9f5d96c4b4e
http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30356
http://www.tfi.com/pubs/ctu/cturedev.html
Thru our class we have had the opportunity to use many forms of communication. We were able to chat on line. This would be helpful if you want to speak with a couple different people at the same time and you are all able to get on line at the same time but may not all be able to meet face to face. Chat rooms are also helpful if you want to ask questions while using a demo on line or while listening and participating in a Webinar. The Webinar was another form of technology we had the opportunity to experience. Instead of taking time from your day and driving to a central location to listen to a power point presentation, it can be given right over the internet and all you need to do is log on. No travel time involved! This is a quick and convenient seminar.
Getting the opportunity to create the power point presentations were also very helpful. All of us have sat thru many classes and seminars with power point presentations. In many cases they are very boring and you feel like someone is standing there reading the screen to you. In our presentations we had the opportunity to use the power points with pictures and even some students were able to create power points with sound and movement. I had never done an actual power point presentation, so I learned a great deal from the other students on what power point can offer to make presentations more interesting. While creating our power point, our group also was able to use the web site "gotomeeting.com". This was another piece of technology we had the chance to use. Everyone in our group had different schedules, for us to get together was very difficult so we were able to get on the website and the phone and see each others computers thru this site. There is just so much out there, and everything is changing daily! We need to keep up with all the new technology or we will be lost.
Personal Experience
When I started to work years ago, I would go into a room and pull a disk off a hanging shelf . The disk weighed about 10 pounds and was bigger than a record album. That disk held the information for the company that I was working on. If you dropped that disk, everything would be lost. After I was done working on that company's books, I''d have to save the information, remove that disk from the computer and put the next company disk in, then presume my work. Now when I go into work, I sit down at my computer and I can pull files off my bosses computer, off the programmers computer, off of four other computers without leaving my seat. I send messages thru email to customers and vendors. I have also been reviewing job shop software packages. During this process I have been logging onto my computer, calling a salesperson in California and that person is conducting a sales pitch to me over the internet. She is showing me their software package and what it is capable of doing on my computer. This is how quickly technology is advancing and just a few ways it has effected my life.
Even when we did the power point presentation in class. The people in my group were able to use "gotomeeting.com" in order to go over our presentation. This saved all of us a lot of time traveling and we could spend more time on the presentation than in the vehicles getting to a central location.
References
You can go to the following web sites to find out more on communication technology:
http://www.querycat.com/faq/04f6b6ff8b7d7c1bd13ba9f5d96c4b4e
http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30356
http://www.tfi.com/pubs/ctu/cturedev.html
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