{"id":2381,"date":"2011-01-24T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2011-01-24T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:58:30","slug":"too-many-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/too-many-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Too. Many. Channels."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A little Friday fun. You&#8217;d think it would be easier to keep in touch with your contacts these days thanks to the many ways we have to communicate. Phone, email, texting , IM, Twitter @replies and DMs, Facebook messages &#8211; and let&#8217;s not forget about good old fashioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmonty.com\/2010\/06\/10-homage.html\">written notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow, we&#8217;ve made it more complicated. Everyone has his or her own preference of how they&#8217;re predisposed to communicate and be contacted, and it&#8217;s a challenge, to say the least, to manage all of these channels and keep a mental Rolodex of preferences. Is there a solution? I don&#8217;t know. But <a href=\"http:\/\/smigly.tv\/\">Allen Mezquida<\/a> shared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oMIFBnYmMuU\">his latest Smigly animation<\/a> with me, and it captures it well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Warning: there may be some offensive language in the video<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMIFBnYmMuU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nDo you have a solution? Or do you just muddle along like Smigly above?<\/p>\n<p>Scott Monty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A little Friday fun. You&#8217;d think it would be easier to keep in touch with your contacts these days thanks to the many ways we have to communicate. Phone, email, texting , IM, Twitter @replies and DMs, Facebook messages &#8211; and let&#8217;s not forget about good old fashioned written notes. But somehow, we&#8217;ve made &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/too-many-channels\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,294],"tags":[995,994,997,996,998,255],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-scottmonty","tag-channels","tag-friday-fun","tag-preferences","tag-proliferation","tag-too-many","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}