Results tagged “email” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack
Here is a suggestion: Instead of sending email, step back for ten seconds and reflect on: Does this need to be sent? Can I contact the person directly instead?
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I hold that the best way to deal with this is to encourage fewer people to send you email. Of course, before that happens you still need some solutions for triaging when there is too much.
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Is email useful or not? This topic has gotten some energy lately from Luis Suarez and Andrew McAfee (and others). It's clear to me that email is simply not th eright tool for collaboration.
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The Xobni blog has a practical suggestion on making email easier to manage for your recipients with better subject lines.
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Craig Roth has posted his view on how the (Enterprise) Attention Management lens can look at the technical side of email to help with the information overload issue.
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With apologies to my dear friend Luis Suarez and his goal of eliminating email, there are just times when email does the job fairly well.
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Imagine having your pick of 30 different fireworks. Each has its own effects, but taken in combinations, they can really light up the sky. That's the idea behind Leandro Herrero's Disruptive Ideas, a how-to follow-on to Viral Change.
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I had an interesting experience over the holiday break. I left work email at work. And I've discovered another advocate of email freedom in the founder of AwayFind, Jared Goralnick.
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I've had Xobni running on my new work computer since I started in December. Here are some thoughts about how Xobni fits into my worklife.
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Here's another take in the long line of "lots of email" discussions. This time it is "Are You Really Being Paid to Read 200 Emails a Day?" by John Care of Mastering Technical Sales.
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The amount of email one gets on a daily basis or the size of the inbox is a constant source of bragging rights around the business world. It doesn't have to be this way.
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I've been having some trouble with mail to jackvinson.com bouncing to the senders. If this is happening to you, I'd appreciate your letting me know via jackvinson AT comcast DOT net.
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Josh Jacobs, the president of X-1, talks with Dan Keldsen about email triage in a world of desktop search.
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The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.
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The just-arrived copy of Communications of the ACM has an article on the development of e-mail spam and methods that are used to fight it. It's interesting from the perspective of the various machine learning techniques they describe - and how spammers respond to each tactic.
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Emily Turrettini at SmartMobs references a piece by Jeff Zaslow in the WSJ, "How You Handle Your Email Inbox Says a Lot About You."
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After posting about SNARF yesterday, and playing with it a bit more and reading through their community forum, it is clearly a research project and expects to have a few rough edges. However, this makes me think about organizing my inbox even more.
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Chuck Martin has a set of 7 Tips for Getting of Control of E-mail at this week's Darwin Online, many of which I've advocated before.
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Lilia Efimova points to a paper about the "Dynamics of Email Triage" and discusses some interesting ideas about personal effectiveness in relation to how people learn to use their tools.
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Fortune has an interview with Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie: "How to Escape E-Mail Hell" with some interesting tidbits.
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