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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.

Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed. Take a Tour

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Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
Canadian Editions
Teach Introduction to Business?

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Unified Messaging Rapidly Replacing Traditional Voicemail

December 10, 2009

Voicemail has gone from a rudimentary, stand-alone, circuit-switched solution to an integrated software application that’s standard in practically every IP telephony platform today.

These days, when a business decides its time to upgrade its legacy voicemail system, it almost invariably ends up replacing its entire phone system – especially if the organization is yet to upgrade from traditional phone service to VoIP or unified communications.

In fact, some of the major vendors of legacy voicemail systems are already starting to phase out support for those systems – which means it’s just a matter of time before traditional voicemail is a thing of the past. Waiting to scoop up these customers are the major telephony software vendors, with their integrated, all-IP systems.