Comments on: Is Email Ruining Your Life? http://carycooperblog.com/2008/03/14/is-email-ruining-your-life/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:55:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Benjamin http://carycooperblog.com/2008/03/14/is-email-ruining-your-life/#comment-86 Benjamin Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:43:14 +0000 http://carycooperblog.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-86 I think we're only touching the tip of the iceberg here. When were we ever taught to use e-mail effectively? Can you imagine if we had learnt to drive this way? There would be a public outcry. Today's employees have slew of ways to communicate: face to face, phone, e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing... Knowing which to use, and when and how to use it, surely isn't something that should be left up to chance? I think we’re only touching the tip of the iceberg here. When were we ever taught to use e-mail effectively? Can you imagine if we had learnt to drive this way? There would be a public outcry.

Today’s employees have slew of ways to communicate: face to face, phone, e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing… Knowing which to use, and when and how to use it, surely isn’t something that should be left up to chance?

]]> By: Sue Hewitt http://carycooperblog.com/2008/03/14/is-email-ruining-your-life/#comment-64 Sue Hewitt Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:52:41 +0000 http://carycooperblog.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-64 I agree that email is a big problem and you are right that we get lazy. In my last management job I chose not to send any internal emails or make any internal phone calls on a Friday. I used to walk around the building and talk to people instead. Remember that? As a result I could get almost anyone to do anything for me because I knew them personally. Although there is a need for employers to support staff, there is also the persoanl responsibility of how we use it ourselves. Added to that the pressure could be relived by greater use of messaging software within organisations. many emails are conversational and these could easily be shifted to a messaging environment. Its also important for the IT side of the management to be responsible. My hosting compnay has just put in a new filter and reduced my spam from 100 per day to 10. That makes the job of dealing with email much easier. Even if your spam is going directly into a junk email filter you still need to check for false negatives. Sue Hewitt I agree that email is a big problem and you are right that we get lazy. In my last management job I chose not to send any internal emails or make any internal phone calls on a Friday. I used to walk around the building and talk to people instead. Remember that? As a result I could get almost anyone to do anything for me because I knew them personally.

Although there is a need for employers to support staff, there is also the persoanl responsibility of how we use it ourselves. Added to that the pressure could be relived by greater use of messaging software within organisations. many emails are conversational and these could easily be shifted to a messaging environment.

Its also important for the IT side of the management to be responsible. My hosting compnay has just put in a new filter and reduced my spam from 100 per day to 10. That makes the job of dealing with email much easier. Even if your spam is going directly into a junk email filter you still need to check for false negatives.

Sue Hewitt

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