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How the Mobile Revolution Is Changing Business Communication
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Created by Bovee and Thill, the authors of the best-selling college textbooks in business communication for more than 25 years, and the only authors who explain and illustrate in every chapter how mobile is revolutionizing business communication. These resources below will help you spend less time preparing and more time teaching about this topic. For more information about Bovee and Thill's texts and the exclusive, superior coverage they give to all aspects of business communication, visit http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com. For instructor examination copies, go http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/texts. To find your local sales representative, visit http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/replocator. To contact the authors, use this form: https://businesscommunicationnetwork.com/contact-us/. To get a free Comprehensive Guide to Business Communication Instructional Resources, visit http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/resources. Subscribe to a free weekly newsletter of new posts to all 11 of Bovee & Thill's Online Magazines: http://sco.lt/8kgeVV.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Teach your students how to design content for mobile devices. Topics include thinking in small chunks, making generous use of white space, formatting simply, and considering horizontal vs. vertical layouts.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Teach your students job search strategies using mobile devices. Topics include quick access to job information, faster response time when you communicate about job-related issues, how to enhance your personal brand and online portfolio, job search apps, and interviewing tools.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Teach your students the proper business etiquette for using mobile devices. Topics includes keeping your distance, problems using social media, dangers of using virtual assistants, and the important reasons to turn a mobile device off if asked.
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While much attention is often given to the coolest consumer apps, mobile apps that can help you do your job better are arguably even more important.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"We've assembled a collection of apps that can help you be a rock star at work. "We curated this list by polling coworkers, researching the recommendations of other tech publications, and sifting through ratings on the major app stores."
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Despite a constant connection to their phones, Generation Y tend to text in lieu of vocal interaction.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"The concept of leaving (and checking) voice mail is, to millennials, as obsolete as swing-dancing and playing NHL ’94 on Sega Genesis. That red number on their iPhones announcing how many voice mail messages are waiting? Ignored. The recording? Instantly deleted" . . .
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Mobile technology has changed the way we work, but now we're victims of a productivity gap. Work smarter, not harder, on a mobile device.
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Smartphone theft is on the rise, so hold on to your precious devices.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"Where are our phones most at risk? What time of day should we particularly vigilant? And how do we react in the increasingly likely event that our smartphone is ripped away from us?"
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Most people have the illusion that phones are somehow impervious to viruses and that you are safe browsing virtually anything online. Not so. Mobile usage is growing fast, and it is only going to get bigger in 2014 and beyond.
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We're in the middle of a Mobile Revolution. Mobility is changing how we live and work. Are you ready."
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SIMYO and Ahead of Time presents the future of mobile media and communication. This video is presenting a summary of key results of the open think tank MOCOM 2.
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"Savvy executives are happiest when thumbs are tapping on smartphones during a presentation, because active keypads indicate people are presumably tweeting, updating, commenting and blogging about the presenter’s content or style, thereby amplifying the message and bolstering the messenger."
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Here are five steps that you as a presenter can take to incorporate mobile into your next seminar or other public presentation and benefit from interaction with your audience in ways that can project you far ahead of other presenters.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Teach your students how to write for mobile devices. This includes using a linear organization, writing shorter and more focused messages, prioritizing information, and using shorter paragraphs.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Teach your students how to optimize content for mobile devices. This includes how to use location-based services, gamification, augmented reality, wearable technology, mobile blogging, cloud-based services, and mobile podcasting.
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See all nine of Bovee & Thill's Online Magazines Business Communication 2.0: Social Media and Electronic Communication http://www.scoop.it/t/business-communication-2-0-social-media-and-electronic-communication Teaching a Modern Business Communication Course http://www.scoop.it/t/teaching-a-modern-business-communication-course Teaching Business Communication and Employment http://www.scoop.it/t/teaching-business-communication-and-employment Teaching Visual Communication http://www.scoop.it/t/teaching-visual-communication Teaching Business and Interpersonal Communication http://www.scoop.it/t/teaching-business-and-interpersonal-communication Teaching Business Communication and Workplace Issues http://www.scoop.it/t/teaching-business-communication-and-workplace-issues Teaching Oral Communication in a Business Communication Course How the Mobile Revolution Is Changing Business Communication Exclusive Teaching Resources for Business Communication Instructors Visit Bovee & Thill's Business Communication Blog http://boveeandthillbusinesscommunicationblog.com Visit Bovee & Thill's YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/BoveeandThill Visit Bovee & Thill on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/courtland_bovee/business-communication-pictorial-gallery-on-pinter Via Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines
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Teach your students how to do research on mobile devices. Topics include mobile surveys, collecting and sharing, note-taking, sketching, document scanning, real-time thoughts and impressions, and audio, photo, and video recording.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Ever so often, a truly disruptive technology causes major changes to business communication. The changes affect the field on such a grand scale that it requires major revisions to business communication textbooks.
Mobile is this type of disruptive technology, but only Bovee and Thill have responded. How? By integrating mobile into every chapter in an exclusive, groundbreaking presentation in their 2015 editions. This is the first in a series of seven infographics to be published in the coming weeks.
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"This slide presentation will help you gain a better understanding of the opportunities that online learning technologies provide, will increase your mastery of these solutions, and enable you to put them to productive use."
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"TalkPoint survey proves webcasting extends reach and reduces budgets for today’s business professionals. Webcasting, streaming media and mobile data show convenience and content prevail."
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People are checking their phones more and more.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"According to its analysis, the number of people who are addicted to apps is growing faster than number of people who open apps an average amount.". . .
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Our phones have become so important to us, theyve practically become a third limb. But how exactly do we use our phones to make them such an integral part of our lives?"
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VIDEO: We are so obsessed with our iPhones, iPads, and Samsung's smartphones and tablets that when you break down the numbers, it's actually kind of scary.
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"Don't look now, but mobile technology is starting to infiltrate everything."
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"Think your smartphone is smart? . . . The technology that powers mobile is in the process of spreading, well, everywhere—and the world around us is going to be radically transformed as a result." This is going to greatly influence what you teach in your business communication classes.
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Business Insider's annual list of the best apps you should be using.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"Over the past year we've seen some great mobile apps both from well-known developers and lesser-known shops, too. The quality continues to get better and better."
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Ten guidelines for writing email messages for mobile devices.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"Even if you’re unaware of it, there is an increasing chance that the email you have just finished writing will be read on a mobile device (iPhone, BlackBerry or the like). According to the Face of the Web Annual Study, mobile devices could soon rival the PC as the world’s dominant Internet platform." . . .
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Teach your students how mobile technology is changing the practice of business communication. This includes reduced costs, content creation, limited attention, writing standards, location-aware content, security and privacy, productivity and collaboration, widespread utility, and decision making and problem solving.
The infographic also includes a timeline from 2014-2019 about the future of mobile business communication.
This infographic gives you a preview of the more in-depth coverage you'll find in Bovee and Thill's business communication textbooks. Only the 2015 editions of Bovee and Thill's business communication textbooks will cover mobile business communication. If you're teaching business communication, keep in mind that all other business communication textbooks will be obsolete.