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		<title>Latest in #noemail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new digital divide By Joel Achenbach in Washington Post
Yammer as a Time Inc Game Changer
Here are the benefits to scrap the e-mail in ComputerWorld.DK [Danish - use Google Translate or Chrome]
US government service improves after virus takes out email
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/the-new-digital-divide/2012/04/06/gIQAfDydzS_blog.html">The new digital divide By Joel Achenbach in Washington Post</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2091589_2091591_2110534,00.html">Yammer as a Time Inc Game Changer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://epn.dk/teknologi2/computer/article2745851.ece">Here are the benefits to scrap the e-mail</a> in ComputerWorld.DK [Danish - use Google Translate or Chrome]</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/10/us_government_service_improves_without_email/">US government service improves after virus takes out email</a></p>
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		<title>Future of email is #noemail &amp; the past of email</title>
		<link>http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/future-of-email-is-noemail-the-past-of-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting with the past, Washington Post got some hoax busting advice from email historians that resulted in a long but not quite satisfying article with some very good links to orthodox and substantiated email histories including a section on email from Dave Crocker&#8217;s Living Internet and Tom Van Vleck&#8217;s entry that credits Noel Morris as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Starting with the past, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/omblog/post/origins-of-e-mail-my-mea-culpa/2012/03/01/gIQAiOD5kR_blog.html">Washington Post got some hoax busting advice from email historians</a> that resulted in a long but not quite satisfying article with some very good links to orthodox and substantiated email histories including <a href="http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm">a section on email from Dave Crocker&#8217;s Living Internet</a> and <a href="http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html">Tom Van Vleck&#8217;s entry</a> that credits Noel Morris as Tom&#8217;s partner in electronic mail creation starting in 1965 (and noted by Noel&#8217;s brother film-maker Earl as discussed earlier on this blog). Success has many fathers, but Tom and Noel are clearly the first to implement a mail program.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Megan Garber writing in The Atlantic discovers what I (and many others) have been claiming right along,<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/the-future-of-email-looks-a-lot-like-twitter/253401/"> &#8220;&#8216;The Future of Email&#8217; &#8230; Looks a Lot Like Twitter&#8221;</a>. What she discovers is:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fluent, a new service that integrates with Gmail (and eventually, its creators say, with other email platforms) to deliver messages in the flowing fashion of a social media feed. The service, built by a team of former Google developers &#8212; the guys responsible for Wave, but don&#8217;t hold that against them &#8212; converts Gmail&#8217;s grids into a message-sharing service that&#8217;s more dynamic and fluid than any kind of letter-writing has been before, giving way to an inbox that&#8217;s not a box at all so much as a Twitter-like feed of information.</p></blockquote>
<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned earlier that Wave was a good idea executed terribly from a social point of view (to say the least). Nonetheless I found it useful as it combined many of my styles of communicating, integrated many of the sites and environments that I used to communicate and allowed me to &#8220;slice and dice&#8221; the various threads and conversations.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m no longer interested in how to improve email or it&#8217;s best current implementation &#8211; Gmail &#8212; but if I were I&#8217;d be giving <a href="http://fluent.io/">Fluent.io</a> a test drive.</p>
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		<title>Steve Gillmor Remembers email in a time of #noemail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Gillmor of Gillmor Gang writes in TechCrunch about &#8220;Remembering Email&#8221; which is much like remembering the magic of Top 40 Radio or maybe the first clear FM stations. Steve notes that notifications have taken over his attention and ours, but even more the attention of our kids.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/author/steve-gillmor/">Steve Gillmor</a> of Gillmor Gang writes in <a href="http://techcrunch.com">TechCrunch</a> about <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/18/remembering-email/">&#8220;Remembering Email&#8221;</a> which is much like remembering the magic of Top 40 Radio or maybe the first clear FM stations. Steve notes that notifications have taken over his attention and ours, but even more the attention of our kids.<br />
Readers of this blog won&#8217;t be surprised by this. <em>Short, fast, highly interactive, mobile</em>. That&#8217;s the future of messaging. And that ain&#8217;t email. And in case, you haven&#8217;t noticed that ain&#8217;t even voice anymore. Kids text more than voice and more than email. Many of us older folks do as well. The trend lines are set and the practices of business are changing (again see this blog).<br />
Email puts knowledge in siloed inboxes; social (as Luis Suarez has been saying) makes knowledge more open, additive and makes us all richer. The business case, at least internally, is clear.<br />
Steve notices that email serves most often as the default way to notify us of social updates. But, as he also notices, the new robust iOS notifications do a much better job. Those changes sent many folks running to shut off email notifications and get the notification clutter out of the inbox and on the palm top where they are <em>Short, fast, highly interactive, mobile</em><br />
Steve has additional observations about authority, command and control, sharing, and even the privacy of direct messages.<br />
All good. Email contains the seeds of its own destruction. &#8220;The reason email will disappear is because it is the single most effective tool for moving to social.&#8221; Once that bridge is effectively crossed, we&#8217;ll burn it behind us.</p>
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		<title>Move away from your inbox &amp; start working together! #noemail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tribute to Luis Suarez (aka @elsua) in the form of a Dutch/English language site &#8212; Moving/Collaborating/Sharing/Connecting/Thinking/Helping/Innovating/Working/Living Outside the Inbox &#8212; from IBM Netherlands. Includes the Prezi from my talk at Duke last month &#8220;#noemail &#8211; Why you could/should/must use better ways of communicating than email&#8221; and this interview with Luis:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A tribute to Luis Suarez (aka @elsua) in the form of a Dutch/English language site &#8212; <a href="http://www.outsidetheinbox.eu/">Moving/Collaborating/Sharing/Connecting/Thinking/Helping/Innovating/Working/Living Outside the Inbox</a> &#8212; from IBM Netherlands. <a href="http://www.outsidetheinbox.eu/presentation-from-paul-jones/">Includes the Prezi from my talk</a> at Duke last month <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/noemail-at-duke/">&#8220;#noemail &#8211; Why you could/should/must use better ways of communicating than email&#8221;</a> and this interview with Luis:</p>
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		<title>@elsua &#8211; Luis Suarez tells #jamcamp about Living in a World Without Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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Great, if a bit noisy, hall interview with Luis Suarez at Jamcamp yesterday. He is down to three social networks: Twitter, Google Plus and IBM Connections (for work) &#8211;no Facebook (because he dislikes the Terms of Service).
Good insights. Including how to stay in contact with your clients without email.
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<p>Great, if a bit noisy, hall interview with Luis Suarez at Jamcamp yesterday. He is down to three social networks: Twitter, Google Plus and IBM Connections (for work) &#8211;no Facebook (because he dislikes the Terms of Service).</p>
<p>Good insights. Including how to stay in contact with your clients without email.</p>
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		<title>#noemail at Duke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just back from giving a talk and having a talk with the folks at Duke University who do Web and Communications work there. The subject? Productivity in the form of #noemail
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just back from giving a talk and having a talk with the folks at Duke University who do Web and Communications work there. The subject? Productivity in the form of #noemail</p>
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		<title>From &#8220;The Office&#8221; Desk Calendar of Cal Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A calendar page dated Wednesday August 3 showed up in my atom-based faculty mailbox today from my ever alert colleague, Cal Lee.

Angela: Um. Do you not answer e-mails anymore? Because I have e-mailed you four times asking you to come to my desk.
Phyllis: Honey, if I don&#8217;t have time to answer an e-mail, I definitely [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A calendar page dated Wednesday August 3 showed up in my atom-based faculty mailbox today from my ever alert colleague, Cal Lee.</p>
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<strong>Angela:</strong> Um. Do you not answer e-mails anymore? Because I have e-mailed you four times asking you to come to my desk.</p>
<p><strong>Phyllis:</strong> Honey, if I don&#8217;t have time to answer an e-mail, I definitely don&#8217;t have time to walk over to your desk.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Michael Hart (1947 &#8211; 2011) founder of Project Gutenberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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Michael Hart (1947 &#8211; 2011)
founder of Project Gutenberg
At The Register UK
At New York Times

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<p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart">Michael Hart (1947 &#8211; 2011)<br />
founder of Project Gutenberg</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/09/michael_stern_hart/">At The Register UK</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/business/michael-hart-a-pioneer-of-e-books-dies-at-64.html">At New York Times</a><br />
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		<title>Getting started with #noemail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little of what I learned about #noemail so far.

Learn from others. Luis Suarez of In Living A World Without Email was a inspiration and eventually a friend. His posts and his four years at IBM without email helped me think about how to appy his experiences to my own experiment. Donald Knuth is always [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A little of what I learned about #noemail so far.</p>
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<li>Learn from others. <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/learning-from-luis-of-living-in-a-world-without-email/">Luis Suarez of In Living A World Without Email</a> was a inspiration and eventually a friend. His posts and his four years at IBM without email helped me think about how to appy his experiences to my own experiment. <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/don-knuth-beat-me-to-email-divesting-but/">Donald Knuth is always an inspiration, but his experience of abandoning email entirely was less useful to me.</a> A European group called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wequitmail">, &#8220;We Quit Email&#8221;</a> while pretty quiet since its conception and mostly in Dutch, added an additional perspective.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s a great idea to start telling folks early about your plans to go #noemail. I started several months in advance talking to my family, my Deans and my colleagues about my plans. I also chatted some about the idea to my current (at the time) students.
<p>I started with an auto-responder/vacation/away message one month in advance of going #noemail telling folks about my plans and offering many various alternatives &#8212; perhaps too many and too various &#8212; and offering to accept suggestions of additional alternatives.</li>
<li>Some people deserve and should get a more tailored explanation and warning. I specifically contacted the students who has signed up for our fall class &#8212; also early on.</li>
<li>Make some public announcements via the alternatives. I didn&#8217;t make a YouTube video, but I did make early announcements on Twitter, Facebook, Quora, Diaspora, LinkedIn and on this blog. Later on, I did some lengthy interviews with <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/noemail-in-opensource-com-midday-1-report/">OpenSource.com</a> and with <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/reese-news-on-noemail-and-current-state-more-or-less/">ReeseNews.org</a>.</li>
<li>Alternatives can and should be flexible, changeable and even in some cases abandoned. When I started #noemail, Google Plus wasn&#8217;t announced. I added that service as an alternative soon after the announcement. I&#8217;ll likely drop a few of the alternatives that have yet to be used by anyone to contact me</li>
<li>Do monitor the alternatives that you&#8217;ve suggested heavily at least for the first few weeks. People need to know that you are serious about the alternatives; not just abandoning all communication with them.</li>
<li>Browers tabs are your friend. I created one browser instance, in my case Chrome, with a tab for each of the alternatives that I had suggested in my Away message. I kept the browser minimized for most of the day to reduce my distractions. </li>
<li>I looked for some good alternatives for Listserv reading and rediscovered RSS. Most Listservs support reading by RSS feeds which are much better organized and much better for reading than having a ton of messages dumped into my inbox &#8212; even with filters and folders and the like. Unfortunately Mailman, a favorite Open Source listserving option, doesn&#8217;t support RSS in any easy way. Lyris, currently used by UNC, does but not in a very easy to understand way <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/cracking-unc-lyris-rss-for-noemail/">(I blogged about how to get that to work below)</a>.
<p>Some lists are archived on blogs or other sites that have their own RSS feeds.</li>
<li>Trouble tickets and customer services are better dealt with by online forms or services like GetSatisfaction. I plan to do a blog post on this in the future. We&#8217;ve not used email for trouble tickets at ibiblio for several years nor do many others. Spam is only part of the problem. Applying some structure to trouble tickets helps them be solved more quickly and effectively. Solving the problems openly ala GetSatisfaction increases satisfaction.</li>
<li>Use OpenID, GoogleID, Facebook and/or Twitter to join new sites. Email is often required to join a site, make an order etc, but these alternatives are offered by most that I&#8217;ve dealt with since going #noemail and they work great. They certainly reduced my cognitive load for handling ids and passwords. Confirmations and resulting announcements from sites really fill up my inbox even though I work hard to turn off those options and/or opt out, like zombies they keep coming. #noemail fixes that problem nicely.</li>
<li>Phones are fine. So is Face-to-Face. Some people, particularly those who have a serious and real difficulty, really need to have a meeting over coffee, in the office or at least a phone call. Our email instinct is often to try to hash things out in asynchronous messages. IMs and/or video conferences are better than email, but when folks are anxious or passionate or aggrieved the more open, personal and interactive you can be the better.
<p>Keep in mind that most <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/whats-the-biggest-time-sink-email-or-other-social-media/">studies show that casual calls, sales offers and chitchat while important are bigger timesinks than even email.</a></li>
<li>The most resistant demographic to #noemail are <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/talking-bout-my-social-networking-site-resisting-generation-noemail/">those people between 50 and 65 years old</a>. Not everyone between 50 and 65, but you&#8217;ll find many of them. They may need other alternatives &#8212; see phone and Face-to-Face.</li>
<li>The most vocally resisting group are, unsurprisingly, those who make a living directly or indirectly via email. Those who run a business dealing with mailing management, advising folks about email newsletters, managing contacts, managing email services, and certain systems administrators who are responsible for email and messaging. I&#8217;m in sympathy with many of these folks as I&#8217;d been the postmaster for UNC for many years (see posts below). But spurious claims about the superior security and control offered email undercut their objections drastically. The argument isn&#8217;t really about technology, but about emotion. As <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair">Upton Sinclair</a> once observed, <em>&#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.&#8221;</em></li>
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		<title>#noemail in 45 seconds</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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Kinda covers the main point, especially the title: Is email the new &#8220;snail mail?&#8221;
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<p>Kinda covers the main point, especially the title: <em>Is email the new &#8220;snail mail?&#8221;</em></p>
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