Comments on: Confidence in Communication http://blog.spinvox.com/2008/09/08/confidence-in-communication/ SpinVox Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:16:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jwhatley http://blog.spinvox.com/2008/09/08/confidence-in-communication/comment-page-1/#comment-1318 jwhatley Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:39:30 +0000 http://blog.spinvox.com/?p=70#comment-1318 Hey Josie, thanks for your comment. [Traditional] Voicemail is one of the worst forms of modern communication currently around today. The content is left somewhere *else* away from the creator and the consumer. The creator deposits their vocal content into a mailbox which is then left for the consumer to go to and retrieve at a later time/date. Whereas SpinVox, or 'Voicemail 2.0' if you'll excuse the crass upgrade, delivers the message automatically to the recipient. To their phone's mailbox. Ready for consumption. I guess my sentence should've read "Spoken messages - once converted into text - no matter their origin/destination take precedent above all of the others" i.e.: Four new SMSs arrive. Three normal, one converted VM. I'll always, ALWAYS read the SpinVox content first. Always. The primacy of voice, although now digitised, suddenly restored. And yes, the hierarchy changes from person to person, would love to see yours! Thanks for commenting dude, JW. :) P.S. Follow up post coming soon. More deep thinking.. I love my job! :) Hey Josie, thanks for your comment.

[Traditional] Voicemail is one of the worst forms of modern communication currently around today. The content is left somewhere *else* away from the creator and the consumer. The creator deposits their vocal content into a mailbox which is then left for the consumer to go to and retrieve at a later time/date.

Whereas SpinVox, or ‘Voicemail 2.0′ if you’ll excuse the crass upgrade, delivers the message automatically to the recipient. To their phone’s mailbox. Ready for consumption.

I guess my sentence should’ve read “Spoken messages – once converted into text – no matter their origin/destination take precedent above all of the others”

i.e.: Four new SMSs arrive. Three normal, one converted VM. I’ll always, ALWAYS read the SpinVox content first. Always. The primacy of voice, although now digitised, suddenly restored.

And yes, the hierarchy changes from person to person, would love to see yours!
Thanks for commenting dude,

JW.
:)

P.S. Follow up post coming soon. More deep thinking.. I love my job! :)

]]> By: Josie Fraser http://blog.spinvox.com/2008/09/08/confidence-in-communication/comment-page-1/#comment-1317 Josie Fraser Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:30:22 +0000 http://blog.spinvox.com/?p=70#comment-1317 Hi James. This is an excellent post, really captures some of the real value of the service. My only comment - which you already point up - would be the one demonstrated by your hierarchy, or commns weighting. For me (although I'm happy to be considered in the minority) voicemail would be in about the same place, since I'm terrible at picking it up in anything like a timely manner, but calls & SMS would be pretty close runners up. I'd give priority to email and face to face, with social messaging appearing more or less important depending on a spread of factors. Your statement "Spoken messages, no matter their origin/destination, take precedent above all of the others" doesn't gel with your relegation of voicemail, and is probably dependent on any individuals personal preference with regard to prioratising communications. Hi James. This is an excellent post, really captures some of the real value of the service. My only comment – which you already point up – would be the one demonstrated by your hierarchy, or commns weighting. For me (although I’m happy to be considered in the minority) voicemail would be in about the same place, since I’m terrible at picking it up in anything like a timely manner, but calls & SMS would be pretty close runners up. I’d give priority to email and face to face, with social messaging appearing more or less important depending on a spread of factors. Your statement “Spoken messages, no matter their origin/destination, take precedent above all of the others” doesn’t gel with your relegation of voicemail, and is probably dependent on any individuals personal preference with regard to prioratising communications.

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