It’s 2011 - how come I’m still getting emails like this?
Dear spammer folks, it’s not 1998 any more. Surely no-one ever replies to these? Or do they?
Dilbert does it again!
Tuesday August 30, 2011, Today is the 29th anniversary of email, as copyrighted by this man
“On August 30th, 1982, 29 years ago, 16-year old V. A. Shiva copyrighted “EMAIL” along with the GUI we still use today with the fields “To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward” and Email body and attachment.”
Read the full story here
Source: thenextweb.com
Very few spam emails reach my inbox. Most of them are snagged by GMail’s spam filters, for which I am truly grateful :-)
What is getting through though, is bacon (bacn). Lot’s of it.
Whereas spam is unsolicited email, bacon isn’t. You asked for it, now you’re getting it in boat-loads.
Source: 8.mshcdn.com
Do you send email newsletters?
Here’s some latest stats that might boggle you!
“…the average time allocated to a newsletter after opening it was only 51 seconds. “Reading” is not even the right word, since participants fully read only 19% of newsletters. The predominant user behavior was scanning. Often, users didn’t even scan the entire newsletter: 35% of the time, participants only skimmed a small part of the newsletter or glanced at the content. People were highly inclined to skip the introductory blah-blah text in newsletters. Although this text was only three lines long on average, our eyetracking recordings revealed that 67% of users had zero fixations within newsletter introductions. (via Email Newsletters: New Results From Eyetracking and User Research (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox))
Source: useit.com
New Facebook Messaging arrives
Yet another email address and inbox to manage. Will you use yours as another personal email address?
A 90-Minute Plan for Personal Effectiveness - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review
I really like Tony Scwartz’ advice.
- Decide what’s really important to do the night before.
- Spend the first 90 minutes of each day, unplugged and totally focussed on achieving that.
- Don’t be distracted, don’t take a break until the 90 minutes are up.
So that means no emails, meetings etc - unless one of those has been declared the most important thing.
Here’s the full article on Harvard Business Review
In an era of mobile devices, instant connectivity, and automated mailing lists and notifications, it is all too easy for people to contact us. As a consequence, we live our lives just trying to keep our heads above water. Our ability to prioritize and control our focus is crippled by an unyielding flow of incoming communication: email, texts, tweets, facebook messages, phone calls, and so on (and on).
Scott Belsky - via
Source: the99percent.com
