One of the things I find interesting when I have conversations about the potential business impact of social technologies is the business person who says something like, “I have too much information coming at me right now. And besides, we already have a way for people to connect together and it works perfectly well and it’s called email.” It seems to me that email mostly gets a free pass when it comes to productivity and whether it actually performs the purposes for which it was originally intended. I decided to take a look at my own email stats for the past three business days to get an idea of how “productive” email is. Keep in mind that I have tried over the past year or so to move as much as possible OFF of email (e.g., email newsletters and the like), but some continues to creep in. Here is my data… So there you have it. We started out with email years ago as a better vehicle to connect with people inside our organizations. Well, that’s 27% of my email flow. Looking at the content of the emails, I can guarantee that 99.9% of this would be MUCH more useful…
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