Comments on: Enterprise IM is growing up, cont. http://www.emailtide.com/2007/06/26/enterprise-im-is-growing-up-cont/ Observations and insights on the challenges and risks of managing corporate email and IM. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mroonie http://www.emailtide.com/2007/06/26/enterprise-im-is-growing-up-cont/comment-page-1/#comment-23 mroonie Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:09:28 +0000 http://www.emailtide.com/2007/06/26/enterprise-im-is-growing-up-cont/#comment-23 Hmmm, maybe I should move away from the email business and into the IM business...haha. All joking aside, email has been trying to gain some share of the IM and voice message market by coming up with "unified communication" solutions, like Comcast. Hoping that people will begin to check their voice messages and IM's like they check their email. But I believe that IM will always be preferred over email because of it's more in the moment. Email on the other hand only comes in handy when you actually WANT time to think before you send. Both have their benefits but I would not be surprised if unified communications in IM start to see a greater adoption rate that email driven unified communications. Hmmm, maybe I should move away from the email business and into the IM business…haha.

All joking aside, email has been trying to gain some share of the IM and voice message market by coming up with “unified communication” solutions, like Comcast. Hoping that people will begin to check their voice messages and IM’s like they check their email. But I believe that IM will always be preferred over email because of it’s more in the moment. Email on the other hand only comes in handy when you actually WANT time to think before you send. Both have their benefits but I would not be surprised if unified communications in IM start to see a greater adoption rate that email driven unified communications.

]]> By: mroonie http://www.emailtide.com/2007/06/26/enterprise-im-is-growing-up-cont/comment-page-1/#comment-131 mroonie Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:09:00 +0000 http://www.emailtide.com/2007/06/26/enterprise-im-is-growing-up-cont/#comment-131 Hmmm, maybe I should move away from the email business and into the IM business...haha. All joking aside, email has been trying to gain some share of the IM and voice message market by coming up with "unified communication" solutions, like Comcast. Hoping that people will begin to check their voice messages and IM's like they check their email. But I believe that IM will always be preferred over email because of it's more in the moment. Email on the other hand only comes in handy when you actually WANT time to think before you send. Both have their benefits but I would not be surprised if unified communications in IM start to see a greater adoption rate that email driven unified communications. Hmmm, maybe I should move away from the email business and into the IM business…haha.

All joking aside, email has been trying to gain some share of the IM and voice message market by coming up with “unified communication” solutions, like Comcast. Hoping that people will begin to check their voice messages and IM’s like they check their email. But I believe that IM will always be preferred over email because of it’s more in the moment. Email on the other hand only comes in handy when you actually WANT time to think before you send. Both have their benefits but I would not be surprised if unified communications in IM start to see a greater adoption rate that email driven unified communications.

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