Comments on: A World Without Email – Year 2, Weeks 49 to 51 (EMail Is Where Knowledge Goes to Die) http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1367318 Luis Suarez Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:08:33 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1367318 Hi Bill! Whoah! How wonderful! Thanks ever so much for dropping by and for sharing the link to such a wonderful story! I know I still owe you a response to another blog post comment you shared a little while ago, but this time around I went ahead to that blog article you put together and shared some further insights over there, adding further on what it is like challenging and displacing email as a means of communicating and collaborating effectively. Look forward to your comments and many thanks for adding further up into the conversation! Looking forward to pointing folks to your article that explains so nicely where that now famous quote comes from! :) Hi Bill! Whoah! How wonderful! Thanks ever so much for dropping by and for sharing the link to such a wonderful story! I know I still owe you a response to another blog post comment you shared a little while ago, but this time around I went ahead to that blog article you put together and shared some further insights over there, adding further on what it is like challenging and displacing email as a means of communicating and collaborating effectively. Look forward to your comments and many thanks for adding further up into the conversation!

Looking forward to pointing folks to your article that explains so nicely where that now famous quote comes from! :)

]]> By: Bill French, Keystone, Colorado http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1367033 Bill French, Keystone, Colorado Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:14:14 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1367033 Luiz, FYI - here's the complete backstory on my quote and its origin - a good chuckle if you have the time. http://ipadcto.com/2011/02/28/email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/ Luiz, FYI – here’s the complete backstory on my quote and its origin – a good chuckle if you have the time.

http://ipadcto.com/2011/02/28/email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/

]]> By: A World Without E-mail « Fossil Hydro 2.0 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1246880 A World Without E-mail « Fossil Hydro 2.0 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:06:08 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1246880 [...] September 22, 2010 in E2.0, Knowledge Mgt, Social Media Luis Suarez recapping his journey towards zero emails [...] [...] September 22, 2010 in E2.0, Knowledge Mgt, Social Media Luis Suarez recapping his journey towards zero emails [...]

]]> By: sbs10: Hacking Behaviours – Firma 2.1 | Blogpiloten.de - das Beste aus Blogs, Videos, Musik und Web 2.0 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1185420 sbs10: Hacking Behaviours – Firma 2.1 | Blogpiloten.de - das Beste aus Blogs, Videos, Musik und Web 2.0 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:47:42 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1185420 [...] bis drei Stunden in ihrer Inbox. Und “E-Mail is not Work”, sagte der Workshop-Leiter Luis Suares, Web-Evangelist bei IBM, der seit zwei Jahren ein Leben ohne e-Mail öffentlich [...] [...] bis drei Stunden in ihrer Inbox. Und “E-Mail is not Work”, sagte der Workshop-Leiter Luis Suares, Web-Evangelist bei IBM, der seit zwei Jahren ein Leben ohne e-Mail öffentlich [...]

]]> By: Hacking Behaviours: Looking back at the Social Business Design Summit in London (2010) « :microinformation http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1185410 Hacking Behaviours: Looking back at the Social Business Design Summit in London (2010) « :microinformation Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:29:46 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1185410 [...] It is not even true that old business is not social. More of the opposite. There is more than enough talking anywhere, in the floors and around the coffee machines. Problem is, it’s the wrong kind of sociality: the ongoing unconstructive babble that is always only repeating that we are right and they are idiots. This kind of collective egocentric sociality culminates in the e-mail inbox. In the e-mail world everything is a "message": something important with a sender and an addressee, always giving hidden hints about social status. Each mail claims undivided attention, and processing it takes always longer than one thinks. The average IBM worker is spending 2- 3 hours a day in the inbox, says Luis Suarez, Web-evangelist at IBM, who is demonstrating in public since for two years now how man can survive without e-mail. [...] [...] It is not even true that old business is not social. More of the opposite. There is more than enough talking anywhere, in the floors and around the coffee machines. Problem is, it’s the wrong kind of sociality: the ongoing unconstructive babble that is always only repeating that we are right and they are idiots. This kind of collective egocentric sociality culminates in the e-mail inbox. In the e-mail world everything is a "message": something important with a sender and an addressee, always giving hidden hints about social status. Each mail claims undivided attention, and processing it takes always longer than one thinks. The average IBM worker is spending 2- 3 hours a day in the inbox, says Luis Suarez, Web-evangelist at IBM, who is demonstrating in public since for two years now how man can survive without e-mail. [...]

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1164514 Luis Suarez Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:48:18 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1164514 Hi Wilson! Many thanks for the follow up! Well, I am not really sure where we will be heading, since things are changing so incredibly fast that's rather a challenge to predict. One thing that I know for sure is that open & transparent collaboration and knowledge sharing will become so distributed that although incredibly helpful I bet it will present to us plenty of challenges as well, but then again those are the ones I'd be keen on pursuing further. I bet the learning path would be much more intense than with other traditional tools that we seem to have exploited enough already over the last few decades ... We shall see ... Thanks again for the great feedback! Hi Wilson! Many thanks for the follow up! Well, I am not really sure where we will be heading, since things are changing so incredibly fast that’s rather a challenge to predict. One thing that I know for sure is that open & transparent collaboration and knowledge sharing will become so distributed that although incredibly helpful I bet it will present to us plenty of challenges as well, but then again those are the ones I’d be keen on pursuing further. I bet the learning path would be much more intense than with other traditional tools that we seem to have exploited enough already over the last few decades … We shall see …

Thanks again for the great feedback!

]]> By: Wilson http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1164377 Wilson Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:40:30 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1164377 Hi Luis, thanks also, and I think you bring up a good thought re where will all this disruptive technology go. Although in some ways I'm dubious of the view, in other ways I can see this all as massive facilitation and even a sort of push into an agency-based work force. Hi Luis, thanks also, and I think you bring up a good thought re where will all this disruptive technology go. Although in some ways I’m dubious of the view, in other ways I can see this all as massive facilitation and even a sort of push into an agency-based work force.

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1164278 Luis Suarez Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:11:29 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1164278 Thanks, Wilson, for dropping by and for sharing your thoughts. I agree with you and, contrary to what most folks, I have never said that email is dead or suffering from a slow and painful one. Quite the opposite, I *still* see value in making use of email for two very specific scenarios: 1) To process calendaring & scheduling events; something that seems to always happen through email and which, in my case, represents a good amount of the notifications that still arrive in my inbox. 2) To host 1:1 private, confidential or sensitive conversations on whatever the topic between two parties. I agree with you those conversations still need to take place, but in my case there aren't many of those hitting my inbox; mainly, because when they come through I prefer to handle them through a phone call. Much faster and much more efficient. For the rest thought everything else goes out, out of my inbox and into whatever the social tool that provides the right context to interact out there in the open; something that with email it's very difficult to obtain specially when interacting with many folks at the same time; it's that abuse of the system that I am not in favour of and which I want to get rid of for good. Oh, notice as well I am doing this initiative only on my work related email, not my personal one, although with my social presence outside of work, folks know where they can get me way faster than just email. But still people have been using my personal email and that hasn't been an issue; most of them are, indeed, agree with you on that one, private conversations, so they remain private... Really like your conclusion as well about exploring that opportunity of a dashboard / portal interface that would allow us to blend, to some extent, both our personal and business interactions; something that typically we seem to be "forced into" more and more and without remedy probably, just as we all become much more distributed, virtual and "owners" of our own workflows and productivity while working away from traditional offices. I think there's still a lot to cover in this aspect, even for the younger generations, as they enter the workplace. I would love to see some more research done on this important aspect to see how our personal lives will disturb, and pretty badly, our corporate culture(s)... Thanks again for the thought-provoking and insightful feedback! Thanks, Wilson, for dropping by and for sharing your thoughts. I agree with you and, contrary to what most folks, I have never said that email is dead or suffering from a slow and painful one. Quite the opposite, I *still* see value in making use of email for two very specific scenarios:

1) To process calendaring & scheduling events; something that seems to always happen through email and which, in my case, represents a good amount of the notifications that still arrive in my inbox.

2) To host 1:1 private, confidential or sensitive conversations on whatever the topic between two parties. I agree with you those conversations still need to take place, but in my case there aren’t many of those hitting my inbox; mainly, because when they come through I prefer to handle them through a phone call. Much faster and much more efficient.

For the rest thought everything else goes out, out of my inbox and into whatever the social tool that provides the right context to interact out there in the open; something that with email it’s very difficult to obtain specially when interacting with many folks at the same time; it’s that abuse of the system that I am not in favour of and which I want to get rid of for good.

Oh, notice as well I am doing this initiative only on my work related email, not my personal one, although with my social presence outside of work, folks know where they can get me way faster than just email. But still people have been using my personal email and that hasn’t been an issue; most of them are, indeed, agree with you on that one, private conversations, so they remain private…

Really like your conclusion as well about exploring that opportunity of a dashboard / portal interface that would allow us to blend, to some extent, both our personal and business interactions; something that typically we seem to be “forced into” more and more and without remedy probably, just as we all become much more distributed, virtual and “owners” of our own workflows and productivity while working away from traditional offices. I think there’s still a lot to cover in this aspect, even for the younger generations, as they enter the workplace.

I would love to see some more research done on this important aspect to see how our personal lives will disturb, and pretty badly, our corporate culture(s)…

Thanks again for the thought-provoking and insightful feedback!

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1164275 Luis Suarez Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:18 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1164275 Hiya, Jack! Many thanks for dropping by and for sharing the link to that wonderful post! I have read it already and will be dropping by to share a couple of comments in the next few minutes, so I can try to answer with some thoughts on your conclusion... It's not as complicated as it may seem, I think ... But we shall see ... Hiya, Jack! Many thanks for dropping by and for sharing the link to that wonderful post! I have read it already and will be dropping by to share a couple of comments in the next few minutes, so I can try to answer with some thoughts on your conclusion… It’s not as complicated as it may seem, I think … But we shall see …

]]> By: Harold Jarche » With a little help from my friends http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-1163977 Harold Jarche » With a little help from my friends Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:03:29 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2010/02/02/a-world-without-email-%e2%80%93-year-2-weeks-49-to-51-email-is-where-knowledge-goes-to-die/#comment-1163977 [...] I also learned that “eMail Is Where Knowledge Goes to Die” via [...] [...] I also learned that “eMail Is Where Knowledge Goes to Die” via [...]

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