If you’re in the US recovering from a long holiday weekend (or even if not I guess) you might find “How Do You Organize Your Email, Dawn Foster?” an interesting post. Dawn said,
I’ve been using Gmail for over three years, and I use it as my primary email. I have a dozen or so email addresses, but they all get forwarded to Gmail. I use it as my central inbox for everything, so my email volume in that one inbox is high.
She then goes on to highlight some of the better organizational aspects of Gmail.
I did the same thing (consolidated many email addresses to Gmail) and can say it’s been great for organization and access. In addition to search capabilities, I like the filtering aspects too. Rather than deal with something like Twitter follows during the day, I filter them to one label and review them at one time. (JC)
How Do You Organize Your Email, Dawn Foster? Web Worker Daily Dawn Foster 25 May 2009
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Janet, we had done a related whitepaper recently on the subject of management of email chaos. We have argued that the answer to email chaos is not better filtering or search, but to answer whether we are using email properly as a technology. We have concluded that email is not being used properly, and used for purposes it is not ideally suitable for, namely collaboration, leading to email chaos (when everyone tries to talk to everyone else).
you can see the whitepaper at http://www.hyperoffice.com/business-email-overload/
Thanks so much for the link and yes, precisely…it’s not what we do with the email it’s why we use it. I look forward to reading the paper.