{"id":3625,"date":"2012-07-12T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2012-07-12T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:32:11","slug":"catching-up-with-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/catching-up-with-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy past few months from end of semester to a summer seminar in London followed by a trip around the Balkans: Croatia > Serbia > Istanbul > Bulgaria > Serbia. It&#8217;s time to do a little catch up on the state of #noemail. <\/p>\n<p>* Whilst in London, we met up with pioneer #noemail er Luis Suarez aka @elsua. Besides visiting his favorite dim sum shop, Luis offered some insight into his first steps away from email. <\/p>\n<p>Luis realized that while email was touted as a way to increase cooperation and comradely interactions that it was largely being used as a way to CC higher ups on discussions in ways that actually put a damper on cooperation and decrease trusted interactions &#8212; and of course filled up everyone&#8217;s mailboxes with unnecessary reports and discussions. Team members spent more time looking over their shoulders than acting like a team as managers were flooded with with chitchat. No one was winning and most people were frustrated by the overload.<\/p>\n<p>* I offered a couple of my own insights &#8212; later tweeted into the #noemail stream:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the Buddha said you should avoid attachments, I&#8217;m sure he was referring to email and PDFs<\/li>\n<li>Email is like a bunch of squirrels. Cute &#038; amusing at first then timewasting, destructive, overmultiplying, &#038; finally *evil*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friends have been keeping me up on new #noemail articles:<\/p>\n<p>* Joe Bob Hester sends: <strong>How useless is email? Two new studies weigh in<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/collaboration\/how-useless-is-email-two-new-studies-weigh-in\/\">http:\/\/gigaom.com\/collaboration\/how-useless-is-email-two-new-studies-weigh-in\/<\/a> which leads us to a GigaOM piece what plays down the kind of gossip and small talk that builds social bonding. Yes there is a lot of that in email, but there it&#8217;s annoying and almost not work the cost. Unlike, say, the News Feed on Facebook or a Tweet stream both of which are designed, well-designed, for skimming and sharing in a small talk and social way. What in email is weighed toward being a time sink are positives in more social environments.<\/p>\n<p>* Paul Valach alerts us to a new Pew Internet report: <strong>Teens love texting and social networks but ignore e-mail<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pewinternet.org\/Commentary\/2012\/April\/Pew-Internet-Teens.aspx\">http:\/\/pewinternet.org\/Commentary\/2012\/April\/Pew-Internet-Teens.aspx<\/a><br \/>\nThis builds on reports and studies referenced earlier on this blog and by Pew itself. Amongst the interesting numbers are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>35% of all teens socialize with others in person outside of school on a daily basis.<br \/>\n29% of all teens exchange messages daily through social network sites.<br \/>\n22% of teens use instant messaging daily to talk to others.<br \/>\n19% of teens talk on landlines with people in their lives daily.<br \/>\n6% of teens exchange email daily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Teens would rather use a <strong>land line<\/strong> than send email!<\/p>\n<p>But Texting is the dominant daily teen communication channel. &#8220;Texting dominates teens\u2019 general communication choices. Overall, 75% of all teens text, and 63% say that they use text to communicate with others every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Don Sizemore tells us of the need to redesign email using a &#8220;new protocol [that] should be a todo list&#8221; in a ReTweet from @hackernewsbot on <strong>Replacing Email<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4228402\">http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4228402<\/a>. I think the hackers miss the point. There are a lot of communications protocol and even print drivers that we&#8217;ve dropped and reconceived over the years. The whole concept of email should be dropped and reinvented.<\/p>\n<p>* Stacey Devine was the first to alert me to this New York Times article <strong>&#8220;Disruptions: Life&#8217;sToo Short for So Much E-Mail&#8221;<\/strong> by Nick Bilton <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/08\/life%E2%80%99s-too-short-for-so-much-e-mail\/\">http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/08\/life%E2%80%99s-too-short-for-so-much-e-mail\/<\/a>. Nick notes most of the same points raised in this blog about email &#8212; and he even comes to similar conclusions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since technology hasn\u2019t solved the problem it has created with e-mail, it looks as if some younger people might come up with their own answer \u2014 not to use e-mail at all.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m taking a cue from them.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll look at my e-mail as it comes in. Maybe I\u2019ll respond with a text, Google Chat, Twitter or Facebook message. But chances are, as with many messages sent via Facebook or Twitter, I won\u2019t need to respond at all<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UnifiedInBox lets us know of Rachel Woodlock&#8217;s post on<strong> &#8220;Experimenting with managing email overload (or how to ease into #noemail)&#8221;<\/strong> which includes disposable customized email addresses for mailing lists aka bizSpam and discouraging .vacation messages and autoresponders. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelwoodlock.com\/2012\/06\/experimenting-with-managing-email-overload-or-how-to-ease-into-noemail\/\">http:\/\/www.rachelwoodlock.com\/2012\/06\/experimenting-with-managing-email-overload-or-how-to-ease-into-noemail\/<\/a> Good ideas and suggestions here from Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>* Luis Suarez and Chris Brogan and others like John Cox&#8217;s notes on his <strong>&#8220;Vacation from Email&#8221;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/associationnavigator.com\/2012\/07\/02\/take-a-vacation-from-email\/\">http:\/\/associationnavigator.com\/2012\/07\/02\/take-a-vacation-from-email\/<\/a> which is really an essay on work life balance. Log off and live. Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n<p>* Beth McNichol of the Carolina Alumni Review did a bang up job writing on a tough subject &#8211; me &#8212; in <strong>&#8220;Geek Poet Strikes Back&#8221;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinaalumnireview.com\/carolinaalumnireview\/20120506\/?pg=18#pg18\">http:\/\/www.carolinaalumnireview.com\/carolinaalumnireview\/20120506\/?pg=18#pg18<\/a>. Lots of my person story as relates to #noemail there. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>[more to be added as I catch up]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a busy past few months from end of semester to a summer seminar in London followed by a trip around the Balkans: Croatia > Serbia > Istanbul > Bulgaria > Serbia. 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