Comments on: Can Microblogging Platforms Help Reduce The Email Glut?

By: “What are you working on?” Show your co-workers with Twitter-esque microblogging tools (but not Twitter) « MyOnlineCareerSpace.com

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:03:28 +0000

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By: Marie Preston

Marie Preston — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:16:16 +0000

I feel that micro blogging is a great way to communicate, getting what you want people to know about out there in very little words. I feel that it will eventually take over email however if we want more information then we can choose to recieve more. Micro blogging is a perfect tool and one which I use as part of my online marketing stratergy.

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:16:55 +0000

Another approach to reducing the email glut is to use online collaboration tools. Collaboration tools are specifically designed to do things which email is forcibly used to do – working together on files, consensus building, task management, discussions – causing the email glut.

we recently did a white paper explaining how the email glut is caused by using it for things it wasnt designed for, and how collaboration tools help solve the problem. you could check it out @ http://www.hyperoffice.com/business-email-overload/

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Talking 2.0 « The Book Publicity Blog — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:18:40 +0000

[...] 4) Think people are tweeting or Facebooking during work?Some enterprises get in a real tizzy about this. But maybe instead of policing this, the right approach is to encourage microblogging across the organization with Yammer!Some companies let teams use IM or email to electronically chatter, too. Again, this is another way to harness that activity and build an enterprise wide conversation. [...]

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Five Quick Tips for Enterprise Adoption » The Buzz Bin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:39:58 +0000

[...] 4) Think people are tweeting or Facebooking during work? Some enterprises get in a real tizzy about this. But maybe instead of policing this, the right approach is to encourage microblogging across the organization with Yammer! Some companies let teams use IM or email to electronically chatter, too. Again, this is another way to harness that activity and build an enterprise wide conversation. [...]

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:30:28 +0000

That’s pretty cool Rob, and thanks !

By: Rob H.

Rob H. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:57:02 +0000

This is an interesting post. We have observed a reduction in e-mail usage in our company. We use cyn.in collaboration software and cyn.in desktop.
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/12/31/cynin-more-open-source-group-collaboration/

cyn.in desktop provides micro-blogging feature where one can put his/her status message in 140 Chars :). We have stopped internal sharing files in e-mail. we now submit the file to cyn.in, every concern person receives a notification on cyn.in desktop and if needed he/she comments on file right from the desktop, the comments gets attached to the file in threaded discussion fashion.

At company level reduction in e-mail saves time and information clutter, because every reply-to-all message creates multiple copies of same e-mail with little comments from the sender.

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:07:13 +0000

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By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:19:26 +0000

I agree Benjamin that there are now a host of communications platforms to choose from. The leading edge companies will, I believe, take steps to harness the power of social media to increase productivity.

“Replacing” work-related e-mail, even in part, is a relatively revolutionary idea I’d say, so will be exciting to see where this goes!

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:25:15 +0000

Micro-blog sounds like good alternative for email for collaboration -

>>>Micro-blogs and Micro-content for PLM
http://plmtwine.com/2008/12/18/micro-blogs-and-micro-content-for-plm/

By: Wouldn’t it be nice if all emails had to be 140 characters or less? « All about email, Message Compass

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:24:41 +0000

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By: benjaminwright

benjaminwright — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:00:31 +0000

E-mail and microblogging are just two items within the big, growing cornucopia of e-business tools for getting work done. Other tools include macro-blogs, telepresence and various flavors of social networking. The employer's challenge is to discern the difference between productivity and wasteful social chit-chat. --Ben

By: GoEverywhere Team

GoEverywhere Team — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:23 +0000

I don’t think email will ever be fully replaced, but it’s amazing to see the growth that social media and microblogging. I admit to logging onto Twitter several times a day from my webtop, to check in with colleagues and continue conversations. I haven’t checked out Yammer and Present.ly but they sound interesting as well. Thanks for the tips!

By: Kevin Cooper

Kevin Cooper — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:13:52 +0000

I hope so, in fact I got an email the yesterday from a person that I normally chat with via IM. My reaction was, email? Why email? I felt like I had jumped back in time.