Friday, January 13, 2012

A Modest Proposal For Email



http://ow.ly/8sjT6

An article posted by Ryan McClead appearing on the 3 Geeks and  Law Blog website.

This article offers a proposal seeking to increase the efficiency of email use.

The article states that a five minute delay on emails might provide great benefit, "I believe this simple change would drastically cut down on the volume of emails, which would in turn make the emails that do end up in the inbox more visible. More importantly, this five minute delay would also make employees more conscious of their use of email. Before habitually firing off an email, a sender would think to themselves, can the recipient survive without this information for the next 5 minutes? Can I wait 10 minutes for a reply? If either answer is no, then email is probably not the most appropriate way to send the message."

What do you think? Is the following statement true, "Email is Where Knowledge Goes to Die"?

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