Comments on: Wall Street Journal Says Email is Dead; In Other News, Dewey Defeats Truman

By: Project Management: Support Versus Manager Roles

Project Management: Support Versus Manager Roles — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:03:45 +0000

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By: Scott Cohen

Scott Cohen — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:19:56 +0000

Brian,

First off, thanks for the comment. I agree with you on the common set of notes as an email to the team. It definitely cuts down on the clog.

The paper trail works best for me because I have a lot of people who walk up to me and make a request when I’m usually in the middle of four other projects. The email reminds me to add the request to my to-do list and also provides a reminder on the needs of the request. I have enough on my to-do list that I can’t go into too many details on the list itself.

I agree that it becomes a major clog, but in my opinion it’s mostly due to Outlook’s inability to thread together messages (a la Gmail). I love Gmail’s approach to email. I wish the major business email providers would follow suit.

By: Brian McDonald

Brian McDonald — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:06:52 +0000

Good article. I think we are at the beginning of social media adoption as you stated. Email will continue to be more established communication method. However I don’t like the paper trail you mentioned in your piece. I used to do this but then it clogs up my email box and becomes more work. I hate to say it but I prefer more team meetings where work is discussed and resources get their assignments. A common set of notes should be the email message to the team versus the many single requests I get.

By: How I Use Social Media - It's a Commitment | Social Media | Email Marketing | ScottWritesEverything.com

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:44:06 +0000

[...] got me thinking about how I use social media. I touched on it briefly in my last post talking about Twitter and the evolution to email. But I use my social media tools [...]