As companies try to compete in the global economy, they are always looking
for better ways to communicate and this is technology which provides
business with faster, more efficient equipment for every aspect of communication. There are a large variety of technological tools for communicating, some gives us advantages on oral communication and some of these gives us advantages while communicating in written form. DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS USED IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION. TOOLS FOR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION COMPUTER
Different types of task relating to communication can be performed by this
device like : • Word processing. • Creating printing documents. • Desktop publishing. • Planning documents. • Researching audience and contents. • Statistical analysis. • Creating power-point presentations. • E-mailing and distributing documents. PRINTER
• A printer is a peripheral which produces a text and/or graphics of
documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies FAX MACHINE
• A fax (short for facsimile) is a document sent over a telephone line.
• It is playing very important role in business communication for a very long period. TOOLS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION INTERNET
• The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer network that
use the standard Internet protocol suit(TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. • Today’s communication is so much dependent on internet. In business communication it plays more important role. This technology facilitates other medias like – E-mailing Instant Messeging Tele conferencing Video conferencing MULTIMEDIA
• Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different
content forms . • Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices. EMAIL
• Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of
exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.
• Content, Tone, and Correctness
• Consider composing offline • Be concise • Shouldn’t send anything one wouldn’t want published • Shouldn’t use e-mail to avoid contact • Resist humor and tongue-in-cheek comments • Reading and Replying to E - Mail • Scan all messages before replying to any • Print only when necessary • Acknowledge receipt • Don’t automatically return the sender’s message • Revise the subject line if the topic changes • Provide a clear, complete first sentence • Never respond when you’re angry • Check response before hitting “Send” • Assume that all emails are monitored INTRANET
• An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol
technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. TELEPHONE
• The telephone, often colloquially referred to as a phone, is a
telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. • For oral communication this is the most common technological equipment VOICEMAIL
• Voicemail (also known as voice-mail, VMS, or message bank) is a centralized
system of stored telephone messages that can be retrieved later. The term is also used more broadly to denote any system of conveying a stored telecommunications voice message, including using an answering machine. Most cell phones have voicemail as a basic feature, and many land line phones and corporate PBXs have their own voicemail options. TELECONFERENCE
• A teleconference or teleseminar is the live exchange and mass articulation of
information among several persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunicTeleconferencing Equipment • Computer with online connection • Camera hooked up to computer • Software – CU-SeeMe – NetMeeting – Skype – Yahoo Messenger MAJOR FINDINGS
• Uses of technology are very costly.
• Many states haven’t enough technological infrastructures yet. • It’s difficult for old people to adjust with technology. • Technological changes are too rapid to adjust with. • Slow internet speed in various countries is a big obstacle. • Various regions of world are totally unaware about technological improvement. RECOMMENDATIONS
• Governments should take initiative to make technology cheaper for its
citizens. • Building up technological infrastructure. • Organizing different training programs. • Make people aware about technology and encouraging them to using technology for communicating. • Should be informed and prepared to adjust with newer technology every day.