#ProdChat – 2/13/13 – All About Email
Natalie Houston (@nmhouston) was so gracious to host #ProdChat last evening! Thanks to her for making the #productivity chat so great!
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In case you missed last week’s chat, here’s the transcript:(pardon the typo…it says 2/16/2013 but should be 2/6/13!)
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And, here starts this week’s transcript…Enjoy!
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Welcome to #ProdChat, the weekly #productivity chat! Topic: “All About Email” -
Looking forward to tonight’s #prodchat on email. Thanks to @nmhouston for hosting! -
Ditto! RT @TaraRodden: Looking forward to tonights #prodchat on email. Thanks to @nmhouston for hosting! #prodchat -
Let’s start things off with intro’s. Tell us a little bit about you. And, do you use to a specific #productivity system? #prodchat
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We’re excited to be part of our first #prodchat! RT @nmhouston: Welcome to #ProdChat, the weekly #productivity chat! Topic: “All About… -
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Hi. Michelle here. I’m a productivity and tech geek. Hmmm… maybe a wanna be geek. Anyway, I use GTD and @OmniFocus for my system #prodchat
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Welcome, @jodiacampbell! #prodchat
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@nmhouston Thanks for hosting! We’d heard this was a cool chat to be part of! #prodchat
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RT @nmhouston: Welcome to #ProdChat, the weekly #productivity chat! Topic: “All About Email” #prodchat
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Welcome @jodiacampbell You won’t ever regret learning about the GTD system.. trust me 🙂 #prodchat
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Me too! “@jodiacampbell: Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate desperately trying to finish my dissertation. #prodchat” -
RT @nmhouston: Q1: LET’S START WITH THE POSITIVE. HOW DOES EMAIL HELP YOU BE PRODUCTIVE? #prodchat
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Thanks for starting us off, @nmhouston . I work in higher ed. No current system but I’ve been using Workflowy most recently. #prodchat -
@IsaPinaud Thank you so much! It’s very cool you are into productivity–that is definitely important as a college student! 🙂 #prodchat
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By the way, we’re Sendgine. We help people with #socialproductivity, but tonight we’re just here to learn from everyone! 🙂 #prodchat
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hi @jenn_wlkr glad you stopped by! #prodchat
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A1 I Email helps me to be reliable, connect with people, maintain relationships. It’s one of my most valuable #productivity tools #prodchat
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.@rsidneysmith some of us are old enough to remember working without email 🙂 it’s much better to have it, believe me! #prodchat
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Heyllo @rsidneysmith Glad to see you here.. Although I’m sure you never miss this haha 🙂 (Unless your stapler needs staples) #prodchat
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RT @rsidneysmith A1: I couldn’t possibly think about a world without email. It’s my ubiquitous, asynchronous communication! #prodchat
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Yeah! Can you imagine?! MT @rsidneysmith: A1: I couldnt possibly think about a world without email… #prodchat
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@nmhouston Ha! I remember when I used email that couldn’t go anywhere but internally in my office. LOL. #prodchat
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MT @TaraRodden: A1 Email helps me to be reliable, connect with people, maintain relationships. #prodchat
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Completely understand @nmhouston RT A1 I don’t like to be interrupted — or to interrupt someone else. So email helps avoid that. #prodchat
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Q2: WHAT ARE YOUR BIGGEST EMAIL CHALLENGES? #prodchat #productivity
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YES! RT @nmhouston: A1 I dont like to be interrupted — or to interrupt someone else. So email helps avoid that. #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith Wow! And now e-mail goes everywhere you do! Ha Ha! 🙂 #prodchat
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So true! Not enough hours in the day! RT “@TaraRodden: A2: Volume, volume, and volume. #prodchat“
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@NYC_CoachO Coach! Great to see you here. #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith Thanks! We’re excited to be hear–this a very relevant Twitter chat! Especially with all the recent press on e-mail. #prodchat
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good point from MT @jenn_wlkr: with email important conversations are documented and searchable! #prodchat
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@jenn_wlkr Yes, I look the historical record of conversations. I can go back to emails from years ago and be sentimental. 😀 #prodchat
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Interesting take! MT @jenn_wlkr: A1 Email helps me not have to remember everything since conversations are documented & searchable #prodchat
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Yes! Exactly! RT @IsaPinaud: A2 Challenge? Convinving myself to process e-mails at specific times a day instead of every 5 minutes #prodchat -
MT @rsidneysmith: For me, teaching others how to manage email effectively and efficiently! I think that’s a rarer problem. #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith Good for you! Tough job sometimes, for sure! Are you a consultant? #prodchat
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@jenipillar @jodiacampbell @profkrg We’re going to have a small army of PhD candidates on the #productivity chat soon! Yay! #prodchat
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Tough one, but worth the change! MT @IsaPinaud: Convincing myself to process email at specific times instead of every 5 min #prodchat
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@jjmccullen Great to have you on the chat, Jim! @nmhouston is hosting for us this evening! #prodchat
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A2: @nmhouston a bigger issue is when they don’t respond at all or just overlook your message
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I have this problem too…RT @IsaPinaud Convincing myself to process e-mails at specific times a day instead of every 5 minutes #prodchat
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@TaraRodden Sure! This article just ran in the @nytimes over the weekend. Thought it was really intriguing. http://ow.ly/hHlkw prprodchat
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OH! Yes! “@jjmccullen: A2: Responding too quickly to messages, better to wait sometimes & see if someone else will jump in first” #prodchat
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@nmhouston Just went through this. Waited reply for a week. Asked the person today and he said “I don’t check my email” WHAT? #prodchat
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RT @jjmccullen: A2: Responding too quickly to messages, better to wait sometimes and see if someone else will jump in first #prodchat
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Thanks @rsidneysmith, just checking out the tweetchat concept, pretty cool #prodchat
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+1 RT @TaraRodden: I’ve heard it said that if an email takes longer than 5 min to compose, there should be a conversation instead. #prodchat
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@jjmccullen Hey Jim! Glad to see you! All my favorite people are here tonight. 🙂 @NYC_CoachO @apinaud @rsidneysmith #prodchat
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hi @NYC_CoachO glad you’re here! #prodchat
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@TaraRodden Interesting theory indeed. Must look into this. #prodchat
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http://five.sentenc.es es is a policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less.prodchatat
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Agreed! RT @jjmccullen: A2: @nmhouston a bigger issue is when they don’t respond at all or just overlook your message
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There is also http://two.sentenc.es s http://three.sentenc.es c.es http://four.sentenc.es enc.es. Interesting conceprodchatodchat
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RT @TaraRodden: I’ve heard it said that if an email takes longer than 5 min to compose, there should be a conversation instead. #prodchat
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RT @nmhouston: A2 another challenge (ok, pet peeve): vague email subject lines. #prodchat
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welcome to #prodchat @jjmccullen !
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@rsidneysmith, agreed on short emails, I can’t stand when some one sends me an email that doesn’t fit in the window but should
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SO true!! Or no e-mail subject line. RT “@nmhouston: A2 another challenge (ok, pet peeve): vague email subject lines. #prodchat“
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@ErikJFisher Hey, Erik! Great to see you on the #prodchat
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@jodiacampbell Just mentioned this. I’m a student and so many of them don’t check their e-mail. #prodchat
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@nmhouston, thank you, glad to be here #prodchat
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@IsaPinaud that is so frustrating! #prodchat
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@jjmccullen Agreed! (and guilty of doing the offending practice!) LOL #prodchat
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DITTO!! Did I say, DITTO?! RT @nmhouston: A2 another challenge (ok, pet peeve): vague email subject lines. #prodchat
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RT @nmhouston: Q3: WHAT WORKS FOR YOU? SHARE YOUR BEST EMAIL TIP OR STRATEGY! #prodchat
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Yes!! me too. RT @nmhouston A2 another challenge (ok, pet peeve): vague email subject lines. #prodchat
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@TaraRodden The CEO of @hootsuite wrote this article about social media replacing some e-mail this year too http://ow.ly/hHlv4 prprodchat
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@IsaPinaud At 1st I didn’t believe them, but, no, it really is a problem. That’s just crazy to me! #prodchat
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@IsaPinaud Definitely! Why don’t they check their e-mails? Too many, not enough time do you think? #prodchat
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welcome to #prodchat @ErikJFisher !
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RT @rsidneysmith: @ErikJFisher Hey, Erik! Great to see you on the #prodchat // Great to be able to join tonight! -
😀 RT @rsidneysmith: @michgunn @nmhouston Im not sure if you agree with Natalie, Michelle. Care to be more empathic? ;-P #prodchat
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@nmhouston A3 Set times to check & process everything to task mgr or apply 2 min rule. Liberal use of delete key. #prodchat
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@jodiacampbell Yes It is unbelievable #prodchat
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@nmhouston A2: big email challenge for me is getting to longer email responses sooner–I put them off for when I have more time #prodchat -
@jenipillar A2: Have you thought of breaking the email responses into different emails? That’s worked wonders for me. #prodchat
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RT @nmhouston: A3 reading email only when Im going to actually process it (reply, calendar, archive, delete) #prodchat
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RT @nmhouston: Q3: WHAT WORKS FOR YOU? SHARE YOUR BEST EMAIL TIP OR STRATEGY! #prodchat
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RT @rsidneysmith: RT @nmhouston: A3 reading email only when Im going to actually process it (reply, calendar, archive, delete) #prodchat
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A3: I love Unroll_me for unsubscribing from all that stuff! I use it once or twice a year now. cc @IsaPinaud #prodchat
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@IsaPinaud Interesting!! Do you use social sites a lot in class collaboration? #prodchat
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+1 “@nmhouston: A3 reading email only when I’m going to actually process it (reply, calendar, archive, delete) #prodchat” -
Yes! RT @nmhouston A3 reading email only when I’m going to actually process it (reply, calendar, archive, delete) #prodchat
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RT @ErikJFisher: A3: Quick pass to delete/archive anything I may have been copied in on, but doesnt require a response. #prodchat
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slick! MT @NYC_CoachO: Strategy I use when its time sensitive email, I text them after sending asking them to check inbox. #prodchat
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@IsaPinaud Is that automated somehow or do you do this manually? #prodchat
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RT @rsidneysmith: A3: I love Unroll_me for unsubscribing from all that stuff! I use it once or twice a year now. #prodchat
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@TaraRodden PS We’d love to see it and share it! When you are finished, would you send a link our way? #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith We heard about Unroll_me the other day! Do you recommend it? #prodchat
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learn about Inbox Zero, for the uninitiated: http://inboxzero.com/ / prodchatt
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@nmhouston That doesn’t work for me. All my accounts land in the same inbox. #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith At first manually so I realized what I did not read at all and unsubscribed. Now its automatic. #prodchat
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RT @IsaPinaud A3 re: subscriptions. If you don’t read it today, will you read it in 2 days when you have 4 or 5 of them? Really? #prodchat
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@IsaPinaud I’d love to see how you automated that! 😀 #prodchat
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hi @alexisgrant welcome to #prodchat!
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RT @ErikJFisher: Leave the inbox alone a few days, and then you’ll see patterns of what to eliminate. #Prodchat
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RT @nmhouston: Q4: WHAT BENEFITS OR OBSTACLES DO YOU HAVE USING EMAIL ON MOBILE DEVICES? #prodchat
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@nmhouston Regarding this. I don’t let facebook send me emails. I don’t get 5k emails from facebook every five minutes now. #prodchat
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@nmhouston Do you have the next 12 hours free to talk? ;-P #prodchat
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@alexisgrant Glad you are here! This is our first #prodchat, and we’re loving it!
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RT @rsidneysmith: RT @nmhouston: Q4: WHAT BENEFITS OR OBSTACLES DO YOU HAVE USING EMAIL ON MOBILE DEVICES? #prodchat
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@alexisgrant Hi, Alexis! Great to have you here on the #productivity chat this evening. Welcome! #prodchat
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@profkrg @rsidneysmith @jenipillar I wish this had been around 4 years ago. I might be done by now! #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith we might just have to do #prodchat Email…The Sequel 🙂
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Or eliminate e-mail completely! MT @ErikJFisher: Leave the inbox alone a few days, then you’ll see patterns of what to eliminate. #Prodchat
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@alexisgrant Hi Alexis! Great to see you here tonight. 🙂 #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith, what does RT stand for or do in the tweetchat? #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith I’ll explain it to you (by e-mail HAHA) #prodchat
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@rsidneysmith Got it! On our list for sure! Thanks!! #prodchat
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i 2nd this emotion ~~~> RT @nmhouston: @rsidneysmith we might just have to do #prodchat Email…The Sequel 🙂
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@jodiacampbell I wish I had the foresight to start a #productivity tweetchat four years ago! 😉 @jenipillar @profkrg #prodchat
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We hear you! RT @jodiacampbell: A4 I was spending too much time on email. Checking it every time I got a notification was insane. #prodchat
