Comments on: 5 Rules to Avoiding Email Overload

By: josh

josh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:39:11 +0000

PLeas PLease send me as many junk mail as you can. i want to see if it will overload! joshuavillegas@ymail.com

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By: Amir - successfully reduced email overload!

Amir - successfully reduced email overload! — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:30:07 +0000

Ted,
Try google “moveit email overload” or look directly at their website http://www.bluelightit.com/moveit

disclaimer: I have applied for a job there.

By: Ted Demopoulos, Effecttive Internet Presence

Ted Demopoulos, Effecttive Internet Presence — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:38:27 +0000

Interesting approach Amir!
An extreme approach like that wouldn’t work for me — it would simply alienate clients today.

Hmmm, haven’t heard of MoveIT before. I’m going to go and goggle it now

By: Amir - successfully reduced email overload!

Amir - successfully reduced email overload! — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:00:49 +0000

Ted,
Interesting article and great comments.
At one stage i had an auto-responder on my email that read “I don’t answer emails after 10:00. If you didn’t get a reply to your email, consider it deleted. If you need a reply email me again”.
I’d come to work, spend 2 hours on email, and what ever I didn’t manage to complete, I’d delete. It worked great and I managed to get a lot done. However, circumstances changed, and I’m unable to take such an extreme approach any more. I use an outlook Add on called MoveIT. Helps me manage my inbox and keep it completely uncluttered. I Probably save 1 hour a day using it.

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By: Mike King

Mike King — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:31:08 +0000

Good point Ted. Working in a technology company, I just assume there are other ways to escalate and bring up urgent things. It could be as simple as keywords, urgent messages in email, or specific customers automatically forwarding to a separate priority account or other service for dial-up or text messaging. Either way, its still not the right medium for urgent messages. Its a companies responsibility to find ways to use it effectively with their customers and put in place the proper systems so it isn’t costing the organization more than its earning.

By: Ted Demopoulos, Effective Internet Presence

Ted Demopoulos, Effective Internet Presence — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:09:00 +0000

Mike,
You state “email is not the right medium to use for urgent work,” and although I agree, not everyone does. And when a paying client sends me an urgent email, they expect me to see it fairly quickly.

Now my clients learn pretty quickly how to effectively work with me, just as I learn how to effectively work with them, but different people have different expectations about email.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:59:37 +0000

Ted,

While email may directly relate to your top priorities, email is not the right medium to use for urgent work. Everyone always has things already on the list that need to be done, even if it IS related your top priority, so its better to focus on those planned elements to complete them first, then address emails on a daily or twice daily basis to re-adjust lower priority activities for later that day or the next day.