Comments on: Who Killed E-Mail?

By: New Comm Biz » New Channels of Engagement

New Comm Biz » New Channels of Engagement — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:21:29 +0000

[...] I have been fielding the same questions about communities like Twitter, Ning and Second Life. In my last post I wrote about the problems with e-mail: The channel is [...]

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Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:48:33 +0000

[...] And in general don’t abuse email. [...]

By: Pronetos » Blog Archive » “Just MySpace me”

Pronetos » Blog Archive » “Just MySpace me” — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:38:25 +0000

[...] good friend Tac Anderson has written about what a poor tool e-mail is for collaboration. It’s also becoming less useful for routine communication as evidenced by my niece. [...]

By: Chris Blanchard

Chris Blanchard — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:49:47 +0000

Today (May 14), I got an e-mail from a vendor asking me to provide him with some specs so that he could provide this solution to us. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about.

So he replies to me with a long thread between he and someone else at our firm, where apparently I was tasked with a project in a May 3 e-mail. I never saw the e-mail because it was of course buried in 300 other e-mails I get every day.

My project’s deadline was May 11 – three days ago. Guess I better get started. Of course – maybe if this project REALLY needed doing, it should have been tasked in another way . . .

By: Chris Blanchard

Chris Blanchard — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Today (May 14), I got an e-mail from a vendor asking me to provide him with some specs so that he could provide this solution to us. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about.

My project’s deadline was May 11 – three days ago. Guess I better get started. Of course – maybe if this project REALLY needed doing, it should have been tasked in another way . . .

By: Tac

Tac — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:26:16 +0000

Dan,
Blogs are such an amazingly flexible application I love to see people using them for purposes other than blatant self promotion (although I obviously love that use as well). Blogs are just one possible channel. The more channels we have (within reason) the better each channel becomes for their specific purposes.

By: Tac

Tac — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:26:00 +0000

By: Tac

Tac — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:26:00 +0000

By: Dan B.

Dan B. — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:18:14 +0000

Wow, ain't this the truth! I've written about this on a couple of occasions, such as How Multi-Tasking and E-mail Waste Time (which caused a wee bit of a flurry to be stirred up in some parts of the blogosphere), and most recently I've had it with e-mail only customer service, which has gotten a fair share of attention, as well. Another problem: As much as it seems to be, email technology is still not as reliable as we'd like it to be. Just today I rec'd a phone call from an out-of-state company that wanted to hire me for some train the trainer classes. He'd tried emailing me twice, but both of his efforts bounced back to him. Thankfully (my pocketbook thanks him, too), he had enough range of motion in his arms to be able to pick up the phone and call me! I've been advocating to just about all my clients to create wiki/blogs for their various projects. Some are doing it, some aren't. But I certainly agree, Tac ... it's the clearest channel open for that kind of work --and it can't get spammed!!! - Dan B. Workplace Excellence blog

By: Dan B.

Dan B. — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:18:00 +0000