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2013 06 26 The Nearly Ultimate Guide To Ending Email Overload
2013 06 26 The Nearly Ultimate Guide To Ending Email Overload
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a burden on its employees, social media tools. Those include the Atos Wiki,
and has committed to which allows all employees to communicate by
axing the communication contributing or modifying online content, and Office Number of emails sent andreceived per day
Communicator, the companys online chat system by the average corporate user
tool from its offices for which allows video conferencing, and file and
71%
internal communication application sharing.
entirely by 2014.
And Atos is not alone - for many companies, Percentage of worldwide email traffic that
email is simply inefficient. was spam (November 2011)
Klick, a Canadian digital marketing company with
19%
more than 200 employees, now uses email only to
communicate with external clients. Capgemini, the
IT services company, says it has reduced its internal Percentage of spam emails delivered to
email traffic by 40 per cent in 18months. corporate email inboxes despite spam filters
0.39%
Percentage of email that wasmalicious
(November 2011)
Establish public
Set aside a time protocols for Establish internal e-mail Use special-
during the day communicating
when you only with the outside
practices for formality, purpose social See More
tone, brevity, distribution, software such as
handle e-mail. world. responsiveness and timing. LinkedIn, Dopplr, PC Magazine
Flickr, Delicious. Forbes.
Inc.
Close email when you need to
focus.
Gmails Inbox Pause adds a button Googles Priority Inbox sifts email into Fooling yourself with pause buttons,
that lets you halt the incoming torrent. important and everything else, boomerangs and the like well,
But, as Burkeman points out. but many who use it dont really use thats another way of dealing with the
it to prioritize: they use it as a way to overload.
ignore non-important emails entirely. But when it comes to the process-
Inbox Pause doesnt reduce That doesnt reduce the quantity of based communications in day-to-
the quantity of emails that emails that bombard you. Nor does it day business, pause, prioritize or
bombard you. Nor does it help help you answer them faster. boomerang at your peril
you answer them faster. The Boomerang app, for Gmail and
Outlook, lets you fling emails away,
then have them redelivered later. This So lets look at process-linked
doesnt reduce the quantity of emails messaging and how to remove it
that bombard you. Nor does it help from your email.
you answer them faster.
Twitter is adding
In the personal
300,000
users a day
space,
were using social
media more and
1 in 5
Americans age 18-35
more use @twitter
96%
of 18-35 year olds
are on a social network
50%
of YouTubes 300millions users
visit at least once a week
Social media is + web -and mobile- based + social software which facilitates
technologies which are used to turn human communication
communication into interactive
dialogue among organizations,
communities, and individuals
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Process Efficiency
To The Rescue!