{"id":817,"date":"2007-04-11T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T21:37:36","slug":"the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn Of Corporate Text Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are gradually moving&nbsp;towards instant messaging for our internal communications at Select Metrix and away from email.&nbsp; Speed is a big part of this move for us, but email spam is also driving the change.&nbsp; I have a difficult time imagining email disappearing all together, but <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/107878021\/spam.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article from Inc.com<\/a> provides some insight:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Due to increasing levels of spam, companies may soon have to look beyond e-mail as the primary method of communicating with employees and customers, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 alone, it is predicted that nearly 97 billion e-mails will be sent daily worldwide, 40 billion of which will be spam messages, the study found. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent report forecasting worldwide&nbsp;e-mail usage over the next five years and published by Framingham, Mass.-based market-intelligence firm IDC, <strong>this is the first year that spam e-mail volumes are expected to exceed person-to-person e-mail volumes sent worldwide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unbelievable.&nbsp; We can attest that spam is a real problem for blogs too.&nbsp; Our comments section is inundated every day with hundreds of spam comments.&nbsp; We have to sift through them to find the real comments to approve (and I apologize for any legitimate comments that accidentally get deleted).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are gradually moving&nbsp;towards instant messaging for our internal communications at Select Metrix and away from email.&nbsp; Speed is a big part of this move for us, but email spam is also driving the change.&nbsp; I have a difficult time imagining email disappearing all together, but this article from Inc.com provides some insight: Due to increasing levels of spam, companies may soon have to look beyond e-mail as the primary method of communicating with employees and customers, according to a new study. In 2007 alone, it is predicted that nearly 97 billion e-mails will be sent daily worldwide, 40 billion of which will be spam messages, the study found. In&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-db","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->