Thursday, 14 June 2007
That email mountain...
Debbie Weil writes in the Guardian about one way to deal with an overload of email. Well, we all face it to some extent, don't we?
Two bloggers in the US have declared themselves 'email bankrupt.' Fred Wilson declared: 'I am so far behind on email that I am declaring bankruptcy. If you've sent me an email (and you aren't my wife, partner, or colleague), you might want to send it again. I am starting over.' This received a lot of sympathetic comments and it is instructive to read the number of suggestions on how to manage becoming 'email bankrupt'. Jeff Nolan then declared bankruptcy as well, saying 'I am going back to voice communication as my primary mechanism for interacting with people.'
Personally, I am an advocate of speed reading. It's fairly clear very quickly whether an email is important or not. After dealing with email for 10 years, I also have a sixth sense for spam from just the title.
I also filter all my regular newsletters into dedicated folders to read when I have time, and have a labyrinthine system of email folders in which everything gets stored, regularly. Oh - and I archive my email. With Outlook it's quite easy to load and search your email archive on a CD. I'll let you know whether it works with other email programs..
I would like to invite you to comment on your top tip for surviving the email avalanche. Your good deed for the day - share with those of us in dreadful 'email debt'.
Meanwhile if anyone has a way to resist checking your email every time you pass your computer, I'd love to hear it!Labels: email, organisation, time management
posted by Helen Whitehead 1:07 PM
Tuesday, 15 May 2007
Web Applications and Web 2.0 links
Personalised homepages
PageFlakes
http://www.pageflakes.com/
Netvibes
http://www.netvibes.com/
iGoogle
http://www.igoogle.com
Office/Organisation
30 boxes web calendar
http://30boxes.com/welcome.php
Amazon S3 (NOTE - not free)
Simple Storage Service
can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
Yahoo pipes
feed aggregator
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Thinkfree
ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off.
http://www.thinkfree.com/
Google Apps
Free for domains (premier service for charge)
Groups can check email, schedule meetings, check email, chat in real time, collaborate on documents, and more, via the web.
http://www.google.com/a/
Dabble DB
Web database
http://www.dabbledb.com/
Virus Scanners
AVG
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
Trend micro housecall
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
More from
The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need
Web 2.0 links
RSS Info
tools for rss feeds
http://www.rss-info.com/
ELGG
Open source social networking platform developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more
http://elgg.org/
There.com
A virtual world that's not Second Life
http://www.there.com/
UK Web Focus - Web 2.0 blog
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Office 2.0
http://itredux.com/blog/office-20/Labels: calendar, organisation, Web 2.0, web applications, website development
posted by Helen Whitehead 2:27 PM
