Goodbye Email - Week 1
Sep 16, 2008 Email
Image via Wikipedia 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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Tags: conference, Email, Las Vegas
September 16th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
ASTD attendees of TechKnowledge 2006 experienced pretty much the same thing at the Riviera. The older hotels in Las Vegas are not well maintained. Even worse, most of the “better” and newer resort hotels, give you less services than most leading properties away from the strip. The Strip is for fun, not business. Horrible rooms for working.
Also, enjoy your e-mail blogging. Looking at trying to make similar implementation. Also #2 - I’ve found the same thing with my iPhone, I maybe turn on my home PC at night once or twice a week.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I was there for the Riviera. Ya, it wasn’t good, but good enough for me not to run screaming, unlike the Flamingo. I agree - the Strip is not for business.
Good luck with your email (or lack of)!