alerts
Easier to marginalize email than to kill it
Asking your teammates to give up their inboxes is not going to make you many friends. Today I’m going to outline a way to free your office from the burdens of email misuse without forcing anyone to let go of their Blackberry or GMail security blankets.
Permit me to re-use this old graphic from a previous [...]
E-mail as an Alert System
Let’s wrap up this week of workplace efficiency discussions by looking at what email is becoming for many of us: an alert system. The screenshot above shows my personal email inbox at GMail. A quick glance shows that the majority of the messages are automated alerts from various web services: the [...]
