\n\n| Tool or Medium\n<\/td>\n | Some Unique Advantages\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Face-to-face\n<\/td>\n | Conveys body language, allows sidebar conversations,
\nbuilds trust, coordinates multiple communication media best\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Telephone\n<\/td>\n | Fast iteration of a few people’s ideas and knowledge
\n, conveys tone\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| E-mail, Letter, Memo (anyone remember memos?)\n<\/td>\n | Makes the organization of complex ideas visible
\nand easy to grasp, leaves a trail, can be saved\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| V-mail\n<\/td>\n | Conveys tone, can be saved\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| IM, Chat\n<\/td>\n | Immediate access, fast iteration of a few people’s
\nideas and knowledge\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Weblog \n<\/td>\n | Provides context of communicator’s other work,
\ncategorizable, allows comments back, can be saved\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Newsletter, Newspaper\n<\/td>\n | Brief, immediate, categorizable\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Radio, TV, multimedia\n<\/td>\n | Compelling, reach\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Videoconference (room)\n<\/td>\n | Visual, inexpensive\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Videoconference (P-to-P)\n<\/td>\n | Next best thing to being there\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Forum, Collaboration Tool (project, team)\n<\/td>\n | Egalitarian, leaves a trail\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Wiki\n<\/td>\n | Openness, multiple voices\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Format\n<\/td>\n | Unique Advantage\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Conversation\n<\/td>\n | Iterative, flexible\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Interview\n<\/td>\n | Structured\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Presentation<\/td>\n | Can use multiple media\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n Some of these items are subject to debate:<\/p>\n \n- Implies that you’d use a weblog as a last resort if there isn’t another more appropriate medium.\n
- Implies that voicemail is better than email for short messages — without taking into the account that email is easier to archive.\n
- Implies that wiki is the tool to use if you *don’t* need fancy formatting; vs. being the tool to use if you want to focus on collaboration on content *prior to* formatting.\n
- Also, it doesn’t distinguish between forum discussions, which are suitable for exploring, brainstorming, and other open-ended pursuits, and weblogs, which are conducive to converging on a result.\n<\/ul>\n
Despite these quibbles, the article makes the right underlying assumption. There isn’t one best communications medium; each mode has its strenghts and weaknesses; different modes should be used in different situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dave Pollard has nice, clear, useful, but non-definitive guide for when to use different communication media. Tool or Medium Some Unique Advantages Face-to-face Conveys body language, allows sidebar conversations, builds trust, coordinates multiple communication media best Telephone Fast iteration of a few people’s ideas and knowledge , conveys tone E-mail, Letter, Memo (anyone remember memos?) … Continue reading “When to use communication modes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-6o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |