Comments on: Email Best Practices: Email is NOT a Meeting http://inboxdetox.com/email-best-practices-email-is-not-a-meeting E-mail efficiency and productivity tips, hints, blurbs, gripes, and links for the e-mailer who wants to reclaim time for what is truly important... Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bill Kirwin http://inboxdetox.com/email-best-practices-email-is-not-a-meeting/comment-page-1#comment-8 Bill Kirwin Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:10:54 +0000 http://inboxdetox.com/?p=141#comment-8 Let's consider why email is such a seductive collaboration tool. 1. It is the de facto collaboration platform. Other technologies have failed to supplant it. 2. In a virtual world calling a meeting is increasingly difficult and consumes more time than dropping 2 cents into a thread. 3. Phones are asynchronous (90% voicemail) and sooo '90s. 4. Blogs and Wikis are more like parking lots. Even with notifications and feeds. 5. There is no WIFM to change behavior. Real behavioral change comes from commonly defined best practices, team training and coaching (peer pressure). These are precepts noted in "The Hamster Revolution: Managing Your Email Before It Manages You", Mike Song et al. Check out cohesiveknowledge.com Let’s consider why email is such a seductive collaboration tool.
1. It is the de facto collaboration platform. Other technologies have failed to supplant it.
2. In a virtual world calling a meeting is increasingly difficult and consumes more time than dropping 2 cents into a thread.
3. Phones are asynchronous (90% voicemail) and sooo ’90s.
4. Blogs and Wikis are more like parking lots. Even with notifications and feeds.
5. There is no WIFM to change behavior.

Real behavioral change comes from commonly defined best practices, team training and coaching (peer pressure). These are precepts noted in “The Hamster Revolution: Managing Your Email Before It Manages You”, Mike Song et al. Check out cohesiveknowledge.com

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