[New-imc] talking on the phone

[Gabelula]

((english below))

No se si una llamada telefonica podria ser lo más saludable para nuestros
bolsillos ... pero existe la posibilidad de hablar mediante chat como el msn
(hotmail) por ejemplo. Aca en casa lo uso aveces para comunicarnos con mi
tio en brasil y se escucha como si estuvieras en el telefono común y
corriente ...
Se podria usar cuando por mail cuando sentimos que hay malos entendidos.
Para casos puntuales.
un abrazo
gaba (gabelula at hotmail.com)

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I don't know if a telephone call would be good for our pocket ... but we
could talk through chat like msn (hotmail) for example. Here, at home i use
it sometimes to talk to Brasil y we listen like we were talking on the phone
...
Perhaps we can use it when we feel that the email is getting confuse our
communication. In some cases.
a hug
gaba (gabelula at hotmail.com)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay" <jay at tao.ca>
To: <new-imc at indymedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:24 AM
Subject: [New-imc] talking on the phone


> Hi everyone,
>
> I know this is going to sound stupid and simplistic, but I've been
thinking
> a lot about the miscommunication that happens regularly in the imc
network,
> especially in regard to new IMCs coming into Indymedia, and about ways to
> clear it up.  I've realized lately how easy it is to forget that there
> exists such a wonderful invention as the telephone.  Can you imagine -- in
> the past people actually talked to each other by voice, connecting "in
> person," rather than just shooting e-mails at each other?  I know, I know,
> it sounds crazy, but some of these telephone things still exist, and I
> actually think they're pretty functional.  I have seen many a confusing
and
> frustrating e-mail discussion turn ugly due, at least in great part, to
the
> fact that e-mail can be a pretty awful way to communicate.  People so
> easily get frustrated with each other while reading e-mails, misunderstand
> nuances, don't appreciate jokes, or even -- heavens forbid! -- forget to
> make any.  I've been overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of cameraderie
> that exists between Indymedia people when we're all in the same physical
> space, working together to accomplish the impossible.  Put those same
> people in an e-mail discussion though, and sometimes you'll find each of
> them writing as "loudly" as they can, not taking the time to really try to
> understand what the other is saying.
>
> I'm writing this not to wax nostalgic about the past, nor to blast e-mail
> as a form of communication (without which none of us would be here).  I'm
> just saying that we've had a bunch of miscommuncation lately that may not
> have happened, at least in the same way, if people (myself included) had
> connected at some point on the telephone.  Now that we have started to do
a
> better job of regionalizing our new-imc communication, perhaps we can use
> that decentralization to our advantage by more easily reaching out to
> aspiring IMCs, preferably face to face but, when that's improbable, on the
> phone, especially toward the initial stages of our communication.  I know
> that may be very impractical and essentially impossible in many places
> around the world, and I'm not saying we should try to replace the work we
> do here with phone chats, I'm just saying that at any point if we start to
> have miscommunication, when a phone call may help avoid problems or bridge
> a gap, we shouldn't forget that's an option.  If the time has come for an
> essential phone call or two, especially ones that would be made in order
to
> solve some communication problem, and the only obstacle to your reaching
> out in that way is lack of funds, let me know and, within reason of
course,
> I'd be happy to put my money where my mouth -- er, my keyboard -- is to
> help make it happen.
>
> Just a late night thought from a late night kinda guy,
>
> Jay
>
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