Techno Communications

This will seem silly to many of you, while others will nod in agreement.

Working with SCORE.org, I mentor entrepreneurs wanting to start their own business. I also work with people who have a small business already in operation but needing help with emerging challenges. My specialty arena is nonprofits. My management specialty is strategic planning.

Incoming clients are usually much younger than I. Although they connect first with SCORE via internet, that doesn’t mean they do so with a computer. Cell phones are used as well. For older people like me, I don’t text a lot and sending a message by text is arduous. And slow.

I welcome a new client with a detailed email. If I don’t receive a response in a few days, I text them to tell them to check their email and then respond. Sometimes, we only connect via phone. By then we have exasperated each other!

Communications have rapidly changed into a conflict among technical methodologies. It is a little demoralizing when the old meets the new. We elders have adjusted for a lifetime to the new in society, but now basic communications are being challenged. Yet again!

I point this out because what is needed is a text by phone keyboard app. I saw one advertised maybe a year ago. I wonder if it is costly. I avoid texting except for very brief messages. My one-finger typing approach on a tiny phone screen is too slow. My kids flip through such messages at length with flashing thumbs and fingers. I don’t know how they do it, nor do I wish to learn it. No, give me a computer keyboard any day.

How have others coped with this?

August 25, 2022