Allo!
- Chris Barrow
- Sep 22, 2016
- 1 min read
Google are now rolling out their challenge in the instant messaging market (not yet in the UK) and, according to the USA reviews, it’s looking very good and performing well (let’s just remind ourselves that there are many more Android phones that iPhones).
Old ways that we used to communicate:
telephone calls
letters delivered by the post office
face to face?
New ways that we communicate:
Email
Text
Twitter
Facetime Audio/Video
Skype
Messenger (which is where Google are competing with Allo)
WhatsApp
Instagram
Question:
“How do you communicate with your patients?”
Things are rapidly changing across all patient demographics.
Practice management software developers have to keep up.
Letters and calls for marketing and recall systems are becoming less effective every year and make your practice look old-fashioned.
Believe it or not, a simple question about email settings turned into an hour-long conversation. After trying several things without success, somebody joked that finding a google phone number might be easier than continuing to search through endless help articles. Everyone around the table started sharing their own stories about forgotten passwords and confusing settings. Eventually the issue was resolved, but not before plenty of laughs and complaints along the way.