Inter-personal communication is a very interesting subject. “Remote” inter-personal communication, which means communicating with one another using various means of communication, without actually being in physical proximity, is even more interesting to me. And the last decade has been extremely exciting in that manner. A few weeks ago a tweet sent by David Ohayon got me thinking. David wrote (in Hebrew, sorry!): “Once people thought video calling would be the future. The future proved that people would give up even
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
When it comes to the means of office communication, the tools which we use on a daily basis as part of our work, we nowadays have multiple options. However, when you carefully inspect one’s daily communication behavior, it seems that e-mail and voice (either POTS or IP voice) are still king (and Cisco’s recent acquisition of PostPath proves it). IM is the fresh prince of corporate air, while visual communications – video conferencing, in standard definition and high definition –
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 15th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized
Human latency is a term which describes the time it takes to set-up a human-to-human connection. For instance, it could be the time it takes to connect two people on the phone so that they could resolve an issue. A human latency problem has existed for years now, especially with non-mobile communications. The old adage says “Time is money”, and so every delay costs. But as Zeus Kerravala explains, with time we all grew to develop workarounds that allowed us
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 2nd, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
