Interact On & Offline
I am a huge advocate for online networking tools. I use the tools and am happy to speak of my experiences with them to engage others and learn by sharing ideas. At a recent conference I attended an impressive paper presented by Faith Legendre- Global Consultant for Cisco WebEx, during which she pointed out “In the past we shared our stories via the light of the camp fire, today we share our stories via the light of the computer monitor”.
With so much communication online, could it be too much of a good thing? I wanted to present the case for the reverse. In my role I often see many graduates that are so accustomed to social networking sites, blogs, emails, chats, sms’s and wikis that they miss out on developing skills and have to learn how to interact on the telephone and conduct effective face to face meetings.
Like many things, I suspect imbalance has its consequences. In a world where online skills are becoming the norm building effective business to business relationships via the phone and face to face become highly valued.
Kingsley -Training Manager Prograd
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