Social vs. Not – Pictorally
Mar 10, 2009 Email, Implementation, RSS, Searching, Social Learning SIG, Verbs of Social Learning, Wiki, blogging, collaboration, social media
I don’t know who to credit this to, but I love it. It has been posted so many times that the originator is lost. But, THANK YOU! to whomever it was. (UPDATE: It is from Nasa. Thanks, Harold!)
What I love about this is that it is simple & direct. This got me thinking… Why don’t we have more of these? So I decided to create some more. And here they are…
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Goodbye Email – Week 3 – A Confession
Sep 30, 2008 Email
Confession: I am using you. As if it wasn’t obvious, but I am. Each time I start to send an email I think, “Oh no. That will be one more way and I have to report it out. Isn’t there some other way to do this. A better way?” So the fear of reporting out a high number to you, of faithful mentor, helps remind me to use another – better – way.
Keeping it low. 1/2 to 1/3 less. This makes me happy. Not my lowest, but close.
What am I doing differently?
- I use Twitter more.
- I actually pick up the phone or walk to someone’s desk.
- In order to avoid email I find that I need to complete another couple extra steps – be a little more prepared – and then message someone through a wiki or blog or forum. This causes me to be on top of things a bit more than I previously would have.
- I wait and either let it pass (and ignore it) or let it play out before acknowledging it. This has proven very helpful. Instead of jumping in on things, I let others try to work them out. If they go astray I can jump in, but I don’t NEED to.
- I use IM more (now I might need to get an unlimited IM plan on my phone
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It isn’t a habit yet. It needs to get to that point where email is not my default mode of conversation.
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Goodbye Email – Week 1
Sep 16, 2008 Email
A little explanation: I ran a customer conference last week in Las Vegas. That was it. No regular work, no blogging, nothing. Now that I am recovered (which is relative) I am back to real life. Because of the conference I had an abnormally small number of emails. (I have never texted so much in my life, though!)
I really can’t use last week as a real week, so I revert to my first week, the week before, and this week will be #2.
As you can tell, I really worked at it. Still with only 4 working days during Week 1, I improved a huge amount.
It wasn’t easy, though! Often I would start an email and then catch myself mid way through it. Then the hampster in my head had to kick it up a notch: How do I communicate with this person if I can’t do it through email. I found that I called more, used our internal system more and used Twitter more. Sometimes I found that it was better if I didn’t contact them at all and just waited.
Oh, and what a difference it made on the # of emails I received!
Two other random thoughts:
- Since buying my iPhone I find that I spend more time on that than I do on the computer at home. So nice.
- DO NOT EVER stay at the Flamingo. I don’t care what you do! Don’t give in. Someone else at our company chose this. I had never stayed there, nor did I really know anything about it (or I would have objected). But after the mold, disgustingness, horrible service and ants in the bathroom I will never come close to that place again. And it wasn’t just me – it was almost every single one of the conference attendees (pretty embarrassing to tell you the truth). I thought about creating theflamingomustdie.com, but that is not how I want to be famous. A small book could be created on our experiences – something akin to a bad nightmare. By the way, Flamingo: Hot pink is out.
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