We are becoming more mobile than ever before, thanks to technology that lets us interact personally and professionally in diverse, fluid ways. While there are ample reports to confirm this truth, one needs only look around while out and about to know it’s accurate. Everywhere, people are texting, taking photos and forwarding, checking email and even, well, talking using their multi-functional phones–Blackberries, iPhones and the like. Now, even netbooks and slimline laptops also make it easier to make great use of mobile broadband, enabling users to be fully functional while on the go.
Parks Associates, a Texas-based research firm specializing in”digital living technologies,” was widely quoted earlier this year as it announced that mobile broadband users will top 140 million by 2013. Likewise, a 2008 report from comScore, Inc. reported that Americans accessing the Internet via mobile broadband lept by 154% in 2007. The comScore report noted that 59% of users were using the technology for work purposes, versus 41% for personal use. Suffice to say, this versatile capability is increasingly impacting our everyday lives in more integrated ways.
As a matter of fact, mobile broadband is what’s enabling me to blog this very post, even as I’m visiting the home of family members who are decidedly not Internet connected or savvy.
The
virtual world is a very tangible reality in other ways as well. Technology that has removed borders, walls and geography from the business world is also enabling company owners and sole proprietors to supplement and expand without the traditonal constraints we once knew.
Virtual staffing solutions are abounding to offer businesses the benefits of receptionists and assistants without the hassle or tethering to a normal office.
Coupled with mobile technology,
virtual staffing enables business people to truly work seamlessly, with the full front of a bustling business without the formerly confining restraints. And as the world becomes more mobile as predicted by the aforementioned report, customers, business partners and the like will welcome and embrace new alternatives. We’re arriving at a new normal, in which virtual companies are the real deal and mobile broadband is the way of the land.
Have you embraced mobile technology or
virtual solutions for your business? Give your business a technology audit, and project where you’ll be one, two or five years down the road. Clearly, if you integrate technology and virtual solutions into your business, you’ll be able to keep working even as you head “down the road.”
