This part 2 of an “E-mail is Anti-social” multipart blog. Here is Part 1 . Email is a highly successful communication tool because it is a push centric message distribution mechanism. It is a poor collaboration tool because this distributed characteristic leads to information fragmentation even at small scale. […]
How Do You Know You’re Old? You Still Use Email
Posted: October 16, 2013 | Author: brucem | Filed under: Change management , Creative, Unusual, Amusing | Tags: behaviour , communication , email , texting | 1 Comment » iphone-5-text-message-sms This story made explicit something that many of us suspected but may not have thought was widespread: email is […]
To Reduce E-mail, Start at the Top
The main reason our e-mail in-boxes consume so much of our time is that we have little control over how many messages we receive. But we can control how many messages we send. That seemingly obvious insight sparked a significant reduction in one company’s e-mail traffic: After the […]
How E-mail Is Swallowing Our Lives
One day several zillion years from now, when aliens from a faraway planet try to make sense of our long-defunct civilization, they’re going to be convinced that e-mail came before the telephone. How else to explain our reliance on […]
Coping with Email Overload
A few weeks ago, I returned from a week-long technology-free vacation with my family. No computer, no phone, no email. When I got to the office and checked my computer, I had hundreds of email messages waiting for me. I took […]
Before You Hit Send, Read This
Think before you email. That’s the takeaway from research out of the University of Glasgow and U.K.-based Modeuro Consulting , which examined what happens when leaders ease up on their email. A close look at how seven executives at a London-based power company were spending their days pointed to […]
40% of staff time is wasted on reading internal emails
Tom Hanks in You Got Mail Tom Hanks would not find love at Halton Housing Trust. By 2014 there will be no internal email within Halton Housing Trust. This isn’t just a gimmick, nor is it just a case of replacing one system with another. It is a fundamental […]
10 Hard To Believe (But True) Productivity Statistics
10 Hard To Believe (But True) Productivity Statistics 1. “In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing phones, and the third was stoned on marijuana. […]
The Evolution Of Work
Work is clearly evolving which means that we are seeing new technologies and behaviors enter our organizations. These new behaviors and technologies are largely being fueled by the consumer web and now organizations are struggling to adapt. Over the past few months I explored the Five Trends Shaping The […]
What’s Your Unadoption Strategy For Enterprise 2.0?
Enterprise Social Networks: A Guided Tour (click image for larger view and for slideshow) One of the great challenges of introducing new collaboration technologies is often said to be adoption–getting people to use the technology productively in their work. Andrew Carusone of Lowe’s Home Improvement thinks the focus on […]
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As for demonstrating the value of social collaboration to company leaders, showing great adoption numbers isn’t the way to get that done. What do they care that you’ve got more people blogging, tagging, and commenting? Finding the right way to impress those people is about as hard as “playing poker with someone who has got the cards facing the other way,” he said. “Ask them what’s on their quarterly review or on their annual review.” In other words, find out what numbers they have to move to impress their boss, or their board, or the shareholders. Find out what you can do to contribute toward that goal.