Why Email No Longer Rules… And what that means for the way we communicate by Jessica E Vascellaro, WSJ (Oct 12)
Less email, and more IM or tweets or Facebook - whatever is most instant.
"Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.
In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine."
People used email unproductively. They'll do the same with all the new message tools - maybe more so.
However, also consider Study: 54 Percent of Companies Ban Facebook, Twitter at Work in Wired (Oct 9)
"According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say they’ve banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, while on the job. The study, released today, also found that 19 percent of companies allow social networking use only for business purposes, while 16 percent allow limited personal use."
Posted by Gwen at October 13, 2009 02:59 PM