Just before the turn of the century, when I was still in the market place, I would spend two hours at the end of the day cleaning up the CRT tube. This was just for in-house communications as my partner handled the PC traffic. Fast forward fifteen years and "E-Mail has turned from delight to deluge." Some folks have multiple E-Mail accounts plus Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc to attend and respond to. "Checking e-mail is like performing triage" so says the co-founder of Mailbox. And one of the culprits is the "reply all" button - that coupled with the CYA messages will drive you up the wall. Also, it shouldn't take ten back and forth messages to arrange a lunch date. Jenna Wortham amplifies the problem and potential solution.
tjs
Next - TBA - Off for Presidents' weekend.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/technology/when-e-mail-turns-from-delight-to-deluge.html
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