Social Media

It’s official. Voicemail is dead. Well, almost.

Just before Christmas I updated my voicemail message to something along the lines of: “…text or email me rather than leaving a message as I receive these much quicker than messages…” For the actual msg call 778.899.5423.

The idea to do this came from the realization that certain friends were no longer returning messages and the realization that I too found myself taking days in some cases to check voicemail. Texts and emails however, are responded to almost immediately.

I then came across people discussing the same thing in Twitter and decided a new trend had emerged.

The fact is, people are getting used to consuming smaller and smaller pieces of information and in quicker time frames. Texts, emails sent via mobile devices and services such as Twitter (which limits posts to 140 characters) are forcing us to cut out the waste and get to the point.

The question for 2009 is: how can you take this insight and work it into the sales, marketing, and customer service sides of your business?

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Darren Rowse of Problogger fame recently launched a new blog focused on Twitter called TwiTip. The site focuses on providing visitors with the low down on how to get the most from the latest/hottest social media app around right now.

It’s interesting to see Darren strike off in a new direction after the tremendous amount of work he’s put into Problogger.net. His most recent post discusses his switch from focusing on 2 main blogs to launching a new site and what the pro’s might be of starting a new venture. It’s worth a read.

There and back again comes to mind for you Tolkein fans….

On a related note see adamkillam tweets <- here.

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