How sound & music brought an old man back to life. Everyone should watch this beautiful video!
What memories fo your favorite songs bring back to you? If you were in his position, what songs would you want played for you?
The ability of a company to provide human-to-human connections—back and forth live communication—continues to be critically important. The fact is voice is the most natural and powerful human interface, real time or otherwise. That isn’t going to change any time soon. To the customer, people are inseparable from the services they provide.
There is great value in using a human voice when communicating and developing good relationships with the public. Perceptions of relationships with an organization seem to be significantly more favorable when the organization’s social networking page has a human presence rather than an organizational presence. Levels of trust, commitment, and satisfaction from users all appear to be positively affected by the use of the human voice in social media. Communicating in a human voice adds a sense of personal and sociable human contact to the interaction with the public. We have evidence that perceived conversational human voice may promote trust, satisfaction, and commitment in relationships between an organization and the public, which in turn results in favorable behavioral intentions toward an organization.
This is a One-Minute Dance Party recorded live from the utellit beat laboratory.
Song: Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
Chasing The Shiny Now
Many thanks to the inspiring Jeff Turner for mentioning utellit in this awesome post:
What Utellit helps you do is polish the now of Facebook and Twitter and SMS and Email by adding a shiny touch of personal communication that deserves your distraction.
There’s a lot of shiny new coming out all the time. I don’t want to miss the next great thing anymore than the next guy. But perhaps where most of our focus should really be is on polishing what we already have.
Indeed, speech between trusted individuals is capable of reducing levels of salivary cortisol, often considered a biomarker of stress, and increasing levels of urinary oxytocin, a hormone involved in the formation and maintenance of positive relationships.
Chipping Away At Digital Detachment
Remember the butterflies you felt in your stomach the first time you called a person you had a crush on? Remember the super awkward conversation you had? Remember how you paced around your room with a smile on your face after the conversation was over?
I shudder at the thought of kids these days stealthily averting this difficult situation by shooting off a text like it’s a ninja star.
The difficult, messy things in life are often the most compelling, the most invigorating.
I’m inspired by an amazing post by Erika Napoletano:
We’re continuously cultivating a garden of detachment through all of these digital means of communication. We’ve become entirely lazy when it comes to the emotional commitment it takes to cultivate relationships (of any sort) and instead, accepted that sending a text/email/Facebook message is an appropriate way to develop a connection – and at our worst, unplug completely.
I chat regularly with one of my best friends on g-chat and during our last conversation, I realized that we hadn’t spoken on the phone for over a month. I told him to hold on while I called him and the first thing he said when he answered was: “Man – it’s great to hear your voice.”
Text-based messaging is dominating the way we communicate. It’s understandable because it’s so convenient. You can shoot off a slew of texts or tweets in seconds.
What’s lost are some of the things I cherish most – well-crafted sarcasm, genuine gratitude, palpable excitement. Our voices allow us to express stuff that text just can’t touch (no matter how many exclamation points you use).
But it’s not just about voice. While voice is our focus at utellit, it’s not what makes me tick. It’s not what makes me want to come into work everyday.
What drives me is the belief that I’m steadily chipping away at digital detachment. The vision is so big to me because it’s what I think makes life worth living – taking that extra step to make people happy.
While I think utellit is super quick and easy to use, it’s not as quick as shooting off a text. You have to open up our app, tap record, say some words, then tap “send by SMS”. IT’S LIKE A BILLION TIMES HARDER!
We admit it thought, it’s still not as quick as SMS. Utellit is not for the lazy, but rather for people willing to go the extra mile for a smile. That is the cheesiest sentence I’ve ever written but it’s true!
It’s the thoughtfulness of it.
My brother sent me a 2 minute utellit this morning of his one-year-old twins rambling off sudo-words. It almost made me cry. While I only live about 4 hours a way, I don’t get to visit as much as I’d like. I love those kids so much and hearing that utellit was such an amazing way to start my day. My brother knows this and he took that extra step to make me happy.
I promise this is the most preachy I’ll ever be – but be kind, be original and be more personal in how you communicate. It’s important.
Cheers,
Rishi
Founder @ utellit
Uncanny impression of Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption
Here’s the original scene for comparison.
Happy VaLINtine’s Day from Utellit!
