Does that mean that since I started giving up on e-mail the number of interactions through other social software tools has gone up big time? Yes, it has, but the pace is quite all right, since it is allowing me to forget about e-mail and concentrate on the open conversations out there to get tasks / action items done.

Hummm, not sure I would classify three months in a row as simple lucky dropoff in e-mail, when it has been over 12 months and as I result of what I am doing I am getting more work on presenting at events, writing articles, present at customer workshops, share knowledge and collaborate with other folks, etc. etc. I doubt it would be a lucky dropoff, specially since it’s been going on for so long on. I mean, don’t you think that three months consistently dropping off the total figures would be a bit more than a simple instance of a lower number of e-mails?

Finally, when I was first getting started with this experiment on the first blog post I mentioned how back then I was getting an average of 30 to 45 e-mails day. I could go into the archives and provide some more concrete figures over the course of the last few months to provide that data, but again too much work for me to go there and grab it all, while I still have got a job to do, but the average of the 30 to 45 e-mails a day is pretty accurate from the last month or two before I got everything started.

And last week, that total count of e-mails was down to 27 a week! Not bad. Not bad at all!

Thanks again for the feedback!

In other words, how can we answer a sceptic who suggests that what you’re seeing is just a simple (lucky) dropoff in email?

(by the way, is it possible to include any stats from the week before you started week 1? or is that data lost?)