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September 29, 2005
Aggressive Passivity?
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?
Posted by Heath Row at September 29, 2005 11:54 AM | Category: culture |
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Is the primary difference between this and leaving a voice mail message - that you do not even attempt to speak with the person?
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.
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Roger Fulton
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