It’s a thought provoking read about the issue of e-mail overload and how it affects our productivity. If you work in or run a business full of people that are wasting too much time on e-mail — it’s worth having some real-time conversations about this issue. Real-time communication options like IM, Video, Texting (and telephone “old-school”) have many advantages over e-mail for communicating with each other.
It’s time for us to start letting go of e-mail, it was just a stepping-stone to something else — Just like the 8 track, the cassette tape, the CD. They’ve all had their glory days.
Many e-mails go unanswered and responded to — and it looks like social and real-time communications like phone calls, IM, Skype, and texting are just about ready to take over the reigns as the new best way to communicate.
I won’t be sad to see e-mail go away. Add up how much time you spend every morning deleting e-mail and figure out how many days a year you spend just doing that — it’s a bit of a shock.
However, before all this goes down — we need a good solution for accessing old conversations and information.
How about contextual keyword searchable video, IM, texts all in one spot? Goolge vs. Facebook? As the guys at ESPN would say “c’mon man” lets get that one done and we can get rid of e-mail as a medium for communicating.
Just to be clear: I don’t think e-mail will just disappear, just like snail mail hasn’t gone away, it will just be used for documenting things (such as confirmation of travel or receipts for online shopping) until a better solution for documenting and archiving real-time communications is invented.
Way back in 2009 I wrote an article about Twitter Dashboards. I had been wanting to write an update to it for some time now, so even though this rambling doesn’t talk only about dashboards — let’s consider this the follow up to that article.
There have been so many developments since then.
Consolidation
Did Twitter’s Acquisition of Tweetdeck deliver a deathblow for other established dashboards like Seesmic, Hootsuite or newcomers like Ashton Kutcher’s A.plus? We’ll see… Tweetdeck is still my favorite dashboard. I can’t wait to see what the folks at Twitter do with it — and how the others try to adjust to the new paradigm. [click to continue…]
ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe and forced him to have to communicate blink by blink.
This remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist — and gives others in his circumstance — the ability to make art again.
Really amazing. I wonder what else we could do with those glasses?
This is getting so much media hype its become impossible to ignore. Now even Jimmy Fallon is getting on board. Maybe Charlie thought we needed a distraction from what is going on in the Middle East.
This should put the TV Networks on alert… if anyone will be able to produce their own live shows surely we can come up with some better ideas than Jersey Shore or Big Brother
I read the article ”Should Workplaces Curtail E-Mail?” and thought I’d share it with you.
