Comments on: Harbors in the Ocean of E-mail

By: spyware removal

spyware removal — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:05:26 +0000

“Finally, social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter let people tell their far-flung friends and colleagues what they’re up to without sending a single email, and also let them keep on top of their networks without opening the Inbox. These tools have a very interesting property; they let us dip into the stream of friends’ updates when it’s convenient for us, not when it’s convenient for the updater (as would be the case with email). These updates tend to be less time-critical and less private, and so don’t really belong in our personal Inboxes. Instead, they float by in an ether that we can jump into whenever we like. Leisa Reichelt calls this ability to dip at will into the lives of our friends and/or the workstreams of our colleagues ‘ambient intimacy,’ which I think is a lovely phrase.”

Ambient intimacy is a lovely phrase, but most of the time it is “noisy annoyance” as we are updated with useless information that we could care less about. I get tired of people chronically updating us to the mundanity of their lives!

By: A.C.

A.C. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:26:07 +0000

I agree, so much of my time is wasted on junk email even though my company spends way more than they should for supposed spam blockers.

By: ITIL Training

ITIL Training — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:47:29 +0000

Many of us might have witnessed the explosive growth of electronic and communications technologies which took place since the 1980s. It was not only limited to the American continent but spread worldwide as well. Throughout those two decades, many high tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, IBM etc switched gears to create affordable computers, Internet applications, cell phones, and a dozen other electronics/multimedia based products for use in the office and at home.

Information technologies, however, made their presence felt on the productivity of businesses worldwide. Every industry starting from manufacturing and ending at retail benefited from these technology advances. There’s no doubt that Internet applications have made things much simpler for everyone. Hi-tech solutions are growing at an ever faster rate. It is hard to imagine were we will be in 10 years.

By: halloween costumes

halloween costumes — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:54:17 +0000

The rise of applications like Facebook, Twitter surely indicate that people are fed up with emails. As we move along, and these applications get better integrated with Mobiles, emails will start finding their place in rest.
This is my personal opinion.

By: online dating

online dating — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:15:17 +0000

Managed RSS is a simple and effective approach to cutting email overload. Managed RSS provides a single XML syndication framework for the entire organization. A managed RSS system provides the tools to move content onto publish-subscribe channels and away from email on an enterprise wide basis.

Although, I think every social network should have a lightweight App to display alerts like Messenger instead of keep sending emails for every minor notifications.

By: Lim Boon Chuan

Lim Boon Chuan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:41:43 +0000

Email IMHO is the bane of modern society communication. It does not express emotions and miscommunication is common between correspondents. The fast pace of emails results in a type of 3rd party mentality, in that those involved tends to behave as a 3rd virtual self which can more often than not be far more aggressive than what they normally are in real life.

I am still involved in my Internet businesses, but the day I quit Internet businesses is the day I sworn off emails. I had my fair share of misunderstandings with others when corresponding through emails. Many a times, those sending emails do not realize what they are actually conveying and that is dangerous. Hopefully better ways of communications will overtake email as the chief form of correspondence.

All the above are not taking into account the sheer number of viruses and spams that was filtered off my email accounts and those that managed to sneak through. An analyst of mine estimated that if I do not leave any filter on, 6 out of 7 of my emails are spams or viruses.

By: Cash Advance

Cash Advance — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:02:02 +0000

That is why I personally limit my email viewing to three times a day. I was wasting to much time checking emails and reading pointless junk each day.

By: Chris Hartwell

Chris Hartwell — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:51:47 +0000

I agree, email management has been a big problem for me. Web 2.0 applications are good, but they sound out a lot of unimportnat emails by default usually as well.

One thing I’ve done that has helped with time management was to turn off “auto send / receive” in Outlook. Now I only check emails when I have time. This has made my day much more productive.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:36:12 +0000

Yes, my work is internet related and I literally have received hundreds of emails per day. Many of them are spam and that is where there is tremendous amounts of time being wasted. Even some of the good email spam prevention programs don’t always do the trick.

By: Simon Carswell

Simon Carswell — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:17:43 +0000

“Second, E2.0 tools are good ones for project management; they can be used to track status and progress on action items, highlight new developments, and generally keep everyone on the same page. This only works, though, if everyone on the project agrees to use the 2.0 project management tools; if the boss still wants everything emailed to her and continues to use email for her updates, Enterprise 2.0 becomes above the flow rather than in it, and so likely increases interruptions rather than decreasing them. ”

I agree with this. I’ve been trying to get a project team to use E2.0 tools recently. It’s been harder work than I expected. We’ve been using Google docs to hold project documentation. This includes a spreadsheet that is the project plan. I had to switch to Zoho for the plan, because it became too big to upload to Google Docs. So that made 2 places to look, and 2 applications to learn. I thought both Google Docs and Zoho would be ‘no-brainers’ to get the hang of, but some people found it difficult. And we’ve had glitches, both human (eg my forgetting to give the right people access to a document) and technical (a bug in Google preventing editing of access permissions).

However, despite all these issues I think we’ve begun to see some benefits, and no-one has refused to play ball out of our small team of half a dozen or so. It’s also been interesting that, some sensitive customer data apart (which was kept off the system) there has not been too much concern about putting the project data onto third party servers.