Mobile e-mail in the real world
Found myself at PocketPC Thoughts reading and participating in a nice discussion about the .mobi domain when I clicked on the signature of one of the posters and they had this really neat article about email and highlighted some differences in the way we want to use email versus the way our email programs handle email.
...This colleague believed in the GMail way: don't organize, just store everything in one giant mailbox and search through them if you need something specific. This could actually be one of the most productive ways of handling mail. According to research performed by StorageTek, an average employee spends about 10 hours a month organizing his messages, and 52 minutes a month in order to finding back them again. They did the math and concluded it was cheaper to add more storagespace than to continue to force people to stay within their mailbox quota...
Read the rest of this article, then ask yourself if you are being productive with your email.
...This colleague believed in the GMail way: don't organize, just store everything in one giant mailbox and search through them if you need something specific. This could actually be one of the most productive ways of handling mail. According to research performed by StorageTek, an average employee spends about 10 hours a month organizing his messages, and 52 minutes a month in order to finding back them again. They did the math and concluded it was cheaper to add more storagespace than to continue to force people to stay within their mailbox quota...
Read the rest of this article, then ask yourself if you are being productive with your email.
posted by Antoine @ 4/06/2006 03:48:00 PM
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