DISQUS

Better Communication Results: Communication Genders – what’s your preference?

  • Andrea Weckerle · 3 years ago
    Excellent post, Lee. Interestingly, I've been thinking about this topic myself lately. I probably fall almost equally within both camps (differing in my preference simply based on the situation or issue at hand), hence my years of analytical, abstract and goal-oriented academic studies. From a client perspective, I've had clients with both "male" and "female" communication preferences, regardless of their actual gender, and am thus required to be proficient in both. This places a greater responsibility and time-investment on me, of course, but keeps things interesting. With regard to my blog reading, I probably, like you, have a good mix of styles I enjoy. And with regard to my own blog, my guess is I use both the traditionally "male" and "female" styles, but an outsider would probably be able to evaluate that better than me.
  • Kami Huyse · 3 years ago
    Very interesting. I find that the blogs I read first, and most regularly, are those whom with I have a realtionship, either through comments or offline.

    Then there are those that I read because a headline grabs my attention. I like how you group your feeds into teas. It so happens that I am a BIG tea drinker. High tea is also a plus ;-)

    I need to do this. I have actually been looking to switching to GreatNews from the service I have now. Can you group your feeds into different categories?
  • donna papacosta · 3 years ago
    Hi Lee. I must say that I tend to read the people I "KNOW" before all others -- you, Shel, Neville, Andrea, Dave Traynor, Allan Jenkins, Joseph Thornley etc. Maybe that's a female thing!

    Hey, we miss you here in Vancouver, mate!
  • donna papacosta · 3 years ago
    Hi Lee. I must say that I tend to read the people I "KNOW" before all others -- you, Shel, Neville, Andrea, Dave Traynor, Allan Jenkins, Joseph Thornley etc. Maybe that's a female thing!

    Hey, we miss you here in Vancouver, mate!
  • Lee · 3 years ago
    I hadn't realised, but yes I too read my 'friends' first, and THEN the others. Interesting observation, Ms PepsiCola.

    And yes, Kami, GreatNews does indeed allow you to categorise and split -- I have all of my client watch lists in one folder, my cappuccino feeds etc in another, my darjeelings, english breakfasts and green teas into other folders, etc. Fabulous tool is Great News.

    But I've just installed the latest beta of Office2007 and I have yet to try pulling feeds into Outlook - that will be my next project.

    And I am SOOOO JEALOUS of you, Donna, and wish I could be in Canada at this time of year, at a certain venue, with a certain rag-tag bunch of neer-do-wells... But I'm sure my friends are still having a bloody good time without me !! :-)
  • Kami Huyse · 3 years ago
    I just noticed that Feedburner doesn't have a GreatNews subscibe thingy. That isn't good.
  • Lee · 3 years ago
    Not sure I follow you, Kami -- pls elaborate...
  • Kami Huyse · 3 years ago
    If you click on my feedbuner feed to subscibe, GreatNews isn't one of the choices:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommunicationOvertones