Telecommunications Technology You Use?
Asked by Ms.Kimchi
To any administrative assistants. I'm interested in getting work in the field, and one research question I want to ask you: what are the current telecommunications technology you use and how sophisticated is it? For example, do you communicate primarly through a company database, EDI, cell phones, or faxes, and how sophisticated are the features? Thanks for your help!

Best Answer:
I'm an administrative assistant for a small contracting firm. I handle communications by multi-line phone, email, fax, scan N email (when the fax is down), 2-way radio (walkie talkie), scheduling system, postings to client web systems, and an in-house created program written by my ex-boss in Visual Basic utilizing MS Access databases. I learned the language on the job b/c my ex-boss wanted me to take over maintaining/upgrading it. **Edit** It is not normal for an admin to do any programming. My boss wanted me to do it because of my advanced computer skills and programming classes from high school.