Communication is too easy

Today as I was sitting in a committee meeting it dawned on me that communication is too easy. You see, I wasn't literally sitting in the meeting, I was present by cell phone.



The meeting was about technology and the other three members of the committee were in another location across the state from where I was. They were using a speakerphone to bring me into the meeting. While this would have been unique ten years ago, today it's almost commonplace.



The meeting went well. We discussed, among other things, the ways websites, teleseminars, blogs, webinars, podcasting and RSS can make communications either instantaneous, or available instantly although created at another time.



So why, in a world where communication is so easy do we have so much trouble communicating?



Lots of reasons, but one of them is content.



We have so much irrelevant content that we get lost in retrieving meaningful information. Makes this easy process of communication downright difficult.



It's a never-ending sorting process for me. Is it for you?