Comments on: Can't communicate - too busy with email http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2008/04/28/cant-communicate-too-busy-with-email/ News and ideas on user experience. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:31:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Simon Johnson http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2008/04/28/cant-communicate-too-busy-with-email/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Simon Johnson Tue, 13 May 2008 21:50:39 +0000 http://fronttoback.org/2008/04/28/118/#comment-217 <p>Getting some spanking discipline is also a good thing; David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD is an excellent way of canning the spam. http://www.davidco.com/</p> <p>>Capturing anything and everything that has your attention<br /> >Defining actionable things discretely into outcomes and concrete next steps<br /> >Organizing reminders and information in the most streamlined way, in appropriate categories, based on how and when you need to access them<br /> > Keeping current and "on your game" with appropriately frequent reviews of the six horizons of your commitments (purpose, vision, goals, areas of focus, projects, and actions)</p> <p>Much of the overload is not that we get too much (although we do), but that we don't process things effectively.</p> <p>For those blessed Mac users out there, THE best tool for GTD is THINGS http://www.culturedcode.com/things/</p> Getting some spanking discipline is also a good thing; David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD is an excellent way of canning the spam. http://www.davidco.com/

>Capturing anything and everything that has your attention
>Defining actionable things discretely into outcomes and concrete next steps
>Organizing reminders and information in the most streamlined way, in appropriate categories, based on how and when you need to access them
> Keeping current and "on your game" with appropriately frequent reviews of the six horizons of your commitments (purpose, vision, goals, areas of focus, projects, and actions)

Much of the overload is not that we get too much (although we do), but that we don't process things effectively.

For those blessed Mac users out there, THE best tool for GTD is THINGS http://www.culturedcode.com/things/

]]> By: Marsha Egan http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2008/04/28/cant-communicate-too-busy-with-email/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Marsha Egan Thu, 01 May 2008 22:27:21 +0000 http://fronttoback.org/2008/04/28/118/#comment-204 You are right on the money... I've been working with overloaded execs who are either on the receiving end or the sending end (or both) of trying to use email for the wrong stuff, or in the wrong way. Email is NOT dialogue, although so many people try to make it so. It is like trying to put a square peg into a round hole! I try to encourage people to think about the overall transaction time, not just the time it takes to get the email off the proverbial desk... You are right on the money...

I've been working with overloaded execs who are either on the receiving end or the sending end (or both) of trying to use email for the wrong stuff, or in the wrong way.

Email is NOT dialogue, although so many people try to make it so. It is like trying to put a square peg into a round hole!

I try to encourage people to think about the overall transaction time, not just the time it takes to get the email off the proverbial desk...

]]> By: linda http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2008/04/28/cant-communicate-too-busy-with-email/comment-page-1/#comment-202 linda Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:57:31 +0000 http://fronttoback.org/2008/04/28/118/#comment-202 Absolutely agree with you. A carpenter using a hammer for everything is analogous to a communicator using only email for communication. I like to think about communication as a spectrum from asynchronous to synchronous (calling the "gooey middle," semi-synchronous) and high fidelity to low fidelity. Email is async and typically low fidelity (though new technologies can contribute to higher fidelity when sound, voice, photos and videos are added). I.M. is sync. SMS is often used semi-synchronously. Video conferencing is high fidelity. Text only, low fidelity. Ideal communication technologies really offer a range and we can match to context and content. Async, low fidelity -- great for information dissemination and not always so great(but sometimes okay) for decision making, for example. Absolutely agree with you. A carpenter using a hammer for everything is analogous to a communicator using only email for communication. I like to think about communication as a spectrum from asynchronous to synchronous (calling the "gooey middle," semi-synchronous) and high fidelity to low fidelity. Email is async and typically low fidelity (though new technologies can contribute to higher fidelity when sound, voice, photos and videos are added). I.M. is sync. SMS is often used semi-synchronously. Video conferencing is high fidelity. Text only, low fidelity. Ideal communication technologies really offer a range and we can match to context and content. Async, low fidelity -- great for information dissemination and not always so great(but sometimes okay) for decision making, for example.

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