Current Technology

Technology has helped us communicate in the business world a lot. It has also made it a lot faster. Take Google Docs for example. Before the internet and e-mail everyone had to mail a document to someone, which would take a few days. If  the receiver wanted to make any suggestions they would either have to write them on the document or re-write the document. After E-mail came along it was nice because you could attach the document and send it to a lot of people. Each person could adjust it as they wanted and after sending it back the the receiver he or she could make all the needed changes.

Now we have Google Docs. With Google Docs you can send the same document to a lot of people, and each user can watch the others make changes in real time. Google Docs also has a side task bar that allows you to chat with the other users online so that everyone can come to a conclusion on how it should look while the document is being worked on.

Google Docs is just a small slice of the technology pie. Cellphones, texting, and Skype have also made business communication better and easier to do. As technology progresses it will only improve the way we communicate in the business world.

Why I Chose to Blog.

Social Networking has flooded american homes like few products have in the past. The average teen spends about 31 a week on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter (www.xmms.org) "Stay at home" moms on average spend over three hours a day (which is roughly 21 hours a week) on these same sites. Social Networking sites have slowly crowded out traditional forms of entertainment such as reading and watching tv. The New York Times, on their website nytimes.com reported a 9% drop in sales this last year. 

If you want people to hear about your business then you have to advertise where they are looking. A blog is a powerful tool for a company to let tell it's followers about what it feels is important in a way that people enjoy. it is also a chance to less formally get to know your customers and clients. People seem to open themselves up once they get online. You can also link your blog to your companies Facebook and Twitter account giving yourself even more exposure.

Good advertising is going where the people and and advertising in a way that people enjoy. It is proven fact that people are on the internet and that they enjoy it. If you want to reach the most people then you have to digitize your company and advertise with blogs and with social networks.