{"id":5372,"date":"2007-04-10T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T08:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/stop-iming-me.html"},"modified":"2007-04-10T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T08:18:30","slug":"stop-iming-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/stop-iming-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop IMing Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finding the Holy Grail of Unified Communications<\/div>\n
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We all have our peculiar ways of working and mine is e-mail centric. It is precisely this love of e-mail that enables me to really find a product like SpinmyVmail<\/a> useful as it converts my voicemail to e-mail.<\/div>\n
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I am signed up for an IM client or two but I don’t use them that often. I do find them useful when I need to get a quick answer or as a means to schedule a quick conference call.<\/div>\n
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But IM is a pain for me and I wonder if I am alone.<\/div>\n
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The reason I don’t like it is the fact that what other people want is not always my highest priority at the moment. Sometimes I would like to respond to a request at night, on a weekend or on a plane.<\/div>\n
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IM does not allow me to easily accomplish the above. Sure I can respond to the IM on a weekend but if the person I am IMing is not online then I feel somehow incomplete.<\/div>\n
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Worse, am I supposed to leave 10 IM windows open on my screen until I answer each? What if I reboot?<\/div>\n
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If this isnt bad enough, the sending of attachments through IM without prior permission should be outlawed. People have started to send me all sorts of things in this fashion and I hate it. Why? I just can’t keep track of files stored somewhere on my computer in a downloaded folder.<\/div>\n
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E-mail for me is also a to do list and often, if it isnt in my e-mail it doesn’t get done.<\/em><\/div>\n
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E-mail makes more sense to me as a way to send files as I can search for the files later and easily find them in a single place. I don’t need to scour my hard disk to find a file whose name I can’t even recall.<\/div>\n
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In essence I suppose it boils down to how you use the tools you are given and more importantly does the person you are IMing really care to IM back? If you discover a person’s IM address (this seems to be getting easier and easier to do) you should ask them if it is ok to use IM or if they prefer voice or e-mail.<\/div>\n
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I have this nightmare that a site like LinkedIn will soon have an IM client allowing everyone in my network to IM me at will. This has happened with Gmail already and if I check a simple e-mail in Gmail (something I do not do often) I seem to get mobbed in an instant. I hope IM does not become the primary method of electronic communication but I get he feeling the younger generation is more IM centric than I will ever be and even if I am not a fan of instant messaging I will have no choice to give in – sooner or later.<\/div>\n
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Hopefully as the concept of unified communications proliferates I will be able to connect to IM through my e-mail allowing me to enjoy messaging in the mode I prefer while the person communicating with me does the same. If this is not the holy grail of unified communications, perhaps it should be.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding the Holy Grail of Unified Communications   We all have our peculiar ways of working and mine is e-mail centric. It is precisely this love of e-mail that enables me to really find a product like SpinmyVmail useful as it converts my voicemail to e-mail.   I am signed up for an IM client<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,189,203,118,177],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}