Comments on: Giving up on Work e-mail – Status Report on First Three Weeks

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Week 4

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:36:10 +0000

[...] Here I am, once more, and like every week from now onwards, sharing with you all some further details on how my on-going fight against e-mail at the workplace is going. As you may have been able to see from the title of this entry, today concludes the fourth week in a row since I got started with this new initiative of moving away from work e-mail. And I must say that this week was actually one that I was really looking forward to, since it was going to be the first week I was going to be away from home the entire week and in disconnect mode most of the time presenting at various events and not knowing what my availability and Internet connection would be like. [...]

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:50:20 +0000

Hello folks! Thanks ever so much for the kind feedback and for adding further up into the conversation! I have now taken the liberty of grabbing your comments and adding some further input in a follow up blog post. Hope you enjoy the coments and keep the conversation going!

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on First Three Weeks (Part Deux)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:49:46 +0000

[...] While I am now in Zürich preparing everything and getting ready for Lotusphere Comes To You starting tomorrow (May be able to share the slide deck in Slideshare during the course of tomorrow or the day after… Stay tuned as I will try to get the audio for it as well!), I saw that the progress report post(s) from last week Friday on my fight against work e-mail has put together a bunch of very interesting comments. So I thought that instead of replying to them on the respective blog posts I would go ahead and consolidate all of the different commentary into a follow up blog post as I didn’t want those comments get lost just like that. [...]

By: John Smart

John Smart — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:08:19 +0000

Another question: Are you counting all emails, or are you not counting ‘pointer’ emails like automated alerts that you receive from sites when someone else updates something?

By: joitske

joitske — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:47:49 +0000

Hi Luis, interesting experiment, because many people complain about mails (too many). I wonder though- email is just a useful tool- why would you want to get rid of ALL mails??

and do you have a few social network sites you visit daily? is that not replacing one with the other?

By: Joe Chacko

Joe Chacko — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:27:59 +0000

Luis,

You are an absolute hero! I heartily applaud your principled stand. Well done for showing the rest of us the way.

We have taken a similar approach to one particular part-time project. All communications will be via a Wiki or a (logged) IRC channel. One huge benefit is that all conversations are publically documented and retrievable.
–
Joe

By: Adam Carson

Adam Carson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:39:42 +0000

Hi Luis,

Congrats on your email reduction success!!

I was wondering if you could do a follow-up post explaining how you deal with incoming emails by responding through social media options.

Can you categorize/generalize some of your incoming communications and then map them to different 2.0 tools?

Adam