Comments on: A World Without Email – Year 2, Week 9 (How to Kill E-mail, Before It Kills You) http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:55:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: how to learn a language http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1083950 how to learn a language Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31:47 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/#comment-1083950 I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I'll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don't show up after a couple of weeks --- I won't go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers! I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

]]> By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » A World Without Email - Year 2, Week 10 (Is Email Really Dead?) http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1046612 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » A World Without Email - Year 2, Week 10 (Is Email Really Dead?) Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:55:54 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/#comment-1046612 [...] may remember my last blog post on the topic of the weekly progress reports of living “A World Without Email“, where I [...] [...] may remember my last blog post on the topic of the weekly progress reports of living “A World Without Email“, where I [...]

]]> By: Changing the way that I work. « It’s the truth, even if it didn’t happen… http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1044319 Changing the way that I work. « It’s the truth, even if it didn’t happen… Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:45:29 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/#comment-1044319 [...] way that I work. Posted on April 21, 2009 by jdavidclarke Inspired, in no small part, by Luis Suarez’s “experiment” of getting away from email at work, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to change the way [...] [...] way that I work. Posted on April 21, 2009 by jdavidclarke Inspired, in no small part, by Luis Suarez’s “experiment” of getting away from email at work, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to change the way [...]

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1039681 Luis Suarez Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:56:51 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/#comment-1039681 Hi Alora, thanks a bunch for the feedback comments and for the information details. I must say that I had similar concerns when I was first entering this email-less world and to be honest those concerns disappear within a couple of days... To your query on how do they go back and find something later ... mostly through a good search engine (a la Google); most of the social networking tools rely on a good search engine to be able to re-find the content; and as such that's what they would be expecting ... to work with a good search engine. Also the fact most of those folks are using using feed aggregators, specially in a working environment would allow them to search quickly for content and then re-use it again, if needed. After all all of those feeds are offline ones. Funny enough, w.r.t. your comment on personal communications, email is the one tool I hardly use for those personal interactions; I don't mind sharing some of my personal stuff out there on the various social networks and be part of the overall network. However, it is not something I do with the really close and personal stuff with family and friends. That's something I learned a while ago to respect. If they don't want to be up there on the social networking space, there is no need for us to be there. We use other, much more, immediate tools, not even email: IM, VoIP and the good old phone call addresses our needs. At least, for the last few years... We shall see if it would hold in another 2 to 5 years ... Thanks again for dropping by and surely agree with your comment that email may not be the best solution, and although we may all be addicted to it, there may be a chance for us to start looking elsewhere, too! :-) Thanks for dropping by! Hi Alora, thanks a bunch for the feedback comments and for the information details. I must say that I had similar concerns when I was first entering this email-less world and to be honest those concerns disappear within a couple of days…

To your query on how do they go back and find something later … mostly through a good search engine (a la Google); most of the social networking tools rely on a good search engine to be able to re-find the content; and as such that’s what they would be expecting … to work with a good search engine.

Also the fact most of those folks are using using feed aggregators, specially in a working environment would allow them to search quickly for content and then re-use it again, if needed. After all all of those feeds are offline ones.

Funny enough, w.r.t. your comment on personal communications, email is the one tool I hardly use for those personal interactions; I don’t mind sharing some of my personal stuff out there on the various social networks and be part of the overall network. However, it is not something I do with the really close and personal stuff with family and friends. That’s something I learned a while ago to respect.

If they don’t want to be up there on the social networking space, there is no need for us to be there. We use other, much more, immediate tools, not even email: IM, VoIP and the good old phone call addresses our needs. At least, for the last few years… We shall see if it would hold in another 2 to 5 years …

Thanks again for dropping by and surely agree with your comment that email may not be the best solution, and although we may all be addicted to it, there may be a chance for us to start looking elsewhere, too! :-)

Thanks for dropping by!

]]> By: Alora http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1039641 Alora Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:48:16 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2009/04/14/a-world-without-email-year-2-week-9-how-to-kill-e-mail-before-it-kills-you/#comment-1039641 I was thinking about your experiment yesterday, Luis, when I realized that I am still addicted to my email. And the idea that the next generation only uses more transitory communications solutions eludes me -- how do they go back and find something later? I thoroughly applaud your effort on the professional front: as a knowledge worker, email is NOT the best solution. But on a personal front, communicating with my friends and family, it still has a great deal of value. Not all of the interactions I have with people fit in Facebook. I was thinking about your experiment yesterday, Luis, when I realized that I am still addicted to my email. And the idea that the next generation only uses more transitory communications solutions eludes me — how do they go back and find something later?

I thoroughly applaud your effort on the professional front: as a knowledge worker, email is NOT the best solution.

But on a personal front, communicating with my friends and family, it still has a great deal of value. Not all of the interactions I have with people fit in Facebook.

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