OK, so I am really comfortable with email. I have been an Outlook user since I beta’d the first office suites when I was at MS with the Office 1997 version.
So here we are more than ten years later and I still prefer it over all the other tools I have tried and abandoned.
Now its Office 2010 beta. It’s pretty useful and has some nice new features.
I thought that Office 2007 was a major upgrade and so far to me while there are nice new features 2010 is not as ground breaking.
I have tried to use the free tools like Google Docs and Open Office. I even went cold turkey for a week – well that lasted two days before I returned to the fold.
I do like Office for the Mac 2008. It has nice features. I may yet cross over to the dark side in the next year and go to the Mac. My old G3 Mac no longer functions for anything but the minimalist of tasks.
So, it would seem I am not alone. I saw a nice study(courtesy of eMarketer - http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007434
In this study it shows that the primary source of content sharing is email. I believe this to be so for people like me.
However it is no longer the unique source of my information sharing services. This year – my Christmas greeting will be via Facebook, Twitter and my blog.
My private email users will get the email I usually do and if your one of the (un)lucky people a Christmas Greeting is probably due to you in the next 24 hours.
I have a quite a few friends who have moved their primary social interaction tool to Facebook. [So far I have yet to find someone who communicates exclusively via Twitter and I really hope I don’t!].
I have also noticed a trend among professional people who have abandoned their use of Facebook for personal stuff.
The ability to control personal vs professional remains a challenge for the Big Kahuna of social media. And its not getting any better. So despite the new privacy rules I have now essentially withdrawn my personal info from FB as well.
I never liked the phone and still don’t. So my usage – as measured in total minutes over the past decade has fallen dramatically. However my digital volume of email as measured in the respective growth of my PST files has accelerated.
Email has clearly evolved. I still get way too much and I am struggling to keep up. I need to revisit my filters again.
I have unsubscribed to a wide variety of newsletters in the past year. I seldom have time to read RSS feeds – again there is just too much data out there. I have found that the tools are getting better. Two of my favorite Outlook Add-ins are
YouSendIt – this is a great tool for sending sub 100MB files. (www.yousendit.com )
Xobni – a great info manager (www.xobni.com )
I highly recommend both, however the latter is still unstable in Office2007 and will likely be so in 2010 although so far it does suffer from some annoying mis-features such as the occupation of valuable real estate on the screen and some inframe nav issues.
So for now I will continue to use email as my primary communication tool. Am I a Luddite, I don’t think so – but you might disagree.
OK, so I am really comfortable with email. I have been an Outlook user since I beta’d the first office suites when I was at Microsoft with the Office 1997 version.
So here we are more than ten years later and I still prefer it over all the other tools I have tried and abandoned.
Now its Office 2010 beta. It’s pretty useful and has some nice new features.
I thought that Office 2007 was a major upgrade and so far to me while there are nice new features 2010 is not as ground breaking.
I have tried to use the free tools like Google Docs and Open Office. I even went cold turkey for a week – well that lasted two days before I returned to the fold.
I do like Office for the Mac 2008. It has nice features. I may yet cross over to the dark side in the next year and go to the Mac. My old G3 Mac no longer functions for anything but the minimalist of tasks.
So, it would seem I am not alone. I recently saw an interesting study courtesy of eMarketer.
The survey shows that the primary source of content sharing is email. I believe this to be so for people like me.
However it is no longer the unique source of my information sharing services. This year – my Christmas greeting will be via Facebook, Twitter and my blog [here it is].
My private email users will get the email I usually do and if your one of the (un)lucky people a Christmas Greeting is probably due to you in the next 24 hours.
I have a quite a few friends who have moved their primary social interaction tool to Facebook. [So far I have yet to find someone who communicates exclusively via Twitter and I really hope I don’t!].
I have also noticed a trend among professional people who have abandoned their use of Facebook for personal stuff.
The ability to control personal vs professional remains a challenge for the Big Kahuna of social media. And its not getting any better. So despite the new privacy rules I have now essentially withdrawn my personal info from FB as well.
I never liked the phone and still don’t. So my usage – as measured in total minutes over the past decade has fallen dramatically. However my digital volume of email as measured in the respective growth of my PST files has accelerated.
Email has clearly evolved. I still get way too much and I am struggling to keep up. I need to revisit my filters again.
I have unsubscribed to a wide variety of newsletters in the past year. I seldom have time to read RSS feeds – again there is just too much data out there. I have found that the tools are getting better. Two of my favorite Outlook Add-ins are:
- YouSendIt – this is a great tool for sending sub 100MB files.
- Xobni – a great info manager.
I highly recommend both, however the latter is still unstable in Office2007 and will likely be so in 2010 although so far it does suffer from some annoying mis-features such as the occupation of valuable real estate on the screen and some inframe nav issues.
So for now I will continue to use email as my primary communication tool. Am I a Luddite, I don’t think so – but you might disagree.