Multiple Communication Streams Cont.

Yesterday our face-to-face professional development team had a marketing meeting. Three of the participants met at a coffee house together in Wisconsin, and I joined the meeting virtually. They had to move to a second coffee house because the wireless wasn't working. Everyone had their own computer. It was interesting to see how we used a combination of Skype voice, Skype chat, email, text messaging and a Google Doc to communicate and collaborate. After the meeting we have our Google Doc to refer to, but also one of the members emailed us a transcript of our Skype chat. The meeting was very productive and I would argue in some ways more efficient for brainstorming than a meeting without these tools. However, even with new technologies there is still a lot of room (and possibly increases) for miscommunication as well.