{"id":1554,"date":"2012-02-16T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2012-02-11T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T20:17:04","slug":"are-emails-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/are-emails-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Are emails work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How we handle the trickle, tide or torrent of emails is a key part of our <a href=\"www.idenk.co.uk\/pp\">personal productivity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But is all that about to change? From social networking technologies like <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalfield.com\/\">National Field <\/a>to the head of French consulting firm ATOS stating they will not use internal emails at all in 3 years, people are seeing the way to speed the absorption and management of information from outside of the inbox.<\/p>\n<p>One thing\u2026do you see your email life as work or a distraction? Fun or a threat?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it depends on the work you do (a nurse vrs a communications manager; an electrician or a CEO)?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the solution depends on<\/p>\n<p>1) The scale of the problem for you \u2013 one person was complaining to me last week they had 10 emails a day\u2026and most of those didn\u2019t need much time to sort<\/p>\n<p>2) Your personality \u2013 some love their online persona\u2019s (possibly too much!)<\/p>\n<p>3) Your web connectivity at work \u2013social networking required decent connectivity<\/p>\n<p>4) And the devices you prefer \u2013 iPhones are relatively poor for handling email, but better for networked solutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we handle the trickle, tide or torrent of emails is a key part of our personal productivity. But is all that about to change? From social networking technologies like National Field to the head of French consulting firm ATOS stating they will not use internal emails at all in 3 years, people are seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[50,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}