Comments on: Wall Street Journal Says Email is Dead; In Other News, Dewey Defeats Truman

By: Project Management: Support Versus Manager Roles

Project Management: Support Versus Manager Roles — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:03:45 +0000

[...] Wall Street Journal Says Email is Dead; Dewey Defeats Truman … [...]

By: Scott Cohen

Scott Cohen — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:19:56 +0000

Brian,

First off, thanks for the comment. I agree with you on the common set of notes as an email to the team. It definitely cuts down on the clog.

The paper trail works best for me because I have a lot of people who walk up to me and make a request when I’m usually in the middle of four other projects. The email reminds me to add the request to my to-do list and also provides a reminder on the needs of the request. I have enough on my to-do list that I can’t go into too many details on the list itself.

I agree that it becomes a major clog, but in my opinion it’s mostly due to Outlook’s inability to thread together messages (a la Gmail). I love Gmail’s approach to email. I wish the major business email providers would follow suit.

By: Brian McDonald

Brian McDonald — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:06:52 +0000

Good article. I think we are at the beginning of social media adoption as you stated. Email will continue to be more established communication method. However I don’t like the paper trail you mentioned in your piece. I used to do this but then it clogs up my email box and becomes more work. I hate to say it but I prefer more team meetings where work is discussed and resources get their assignments. A common set of notes should be the email message to the team versus the many single requests I get.

By: How I Use Social Media - It's a Commitment | Social Media | Email Marketing | ScottWritesEverything.com

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:44:06 +0000

[...] got me thinking about how I use social media. I touched on it briefly in my last post talking about Twitter and the evolution to email. But I use my social media tools [...]

By: Scott Cohen

Scott Cohen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:02 +0000

@Scott, excellent point–and love the Constant Contact dig. Justin Premick made the comment on the Email Marketers Club today (www.emailmarketersclub.com) that he thinks the article is pure link bait. I tend to agree with him, given the terrible premise of the article. Would you agree?

@Jordan, I’ve spent the last two hours trying to think of other awesome alternate “Cohen Brothers” titles, but can’t seem to find a decent match with Millers Crossing or The Big Lebowski.

Also, I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks of email as a paper trail.

By: Scott Hardigree

Scott Hardigree — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:41:23 +0000

Nice piece Scott, coupled with Jordan’s post it drives home how truly baseless and uninspired the WSJ’s article is.

Social media, as we know it, is certainly NOT the email killer. In fact it’s the medium that unifies social media. However, I am interested to see if/how Google Wave will effect email behavior or will Wave simply go the way of Google Chrome.

SIDE NOTE: I see too that the WSJ article is sponsored by Constant Contact, classic.

By: Jordan Cohen

Jordan Cohen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:18:21 +0000

Great post Scott, and thanks for the mention.

Great point on the value of the paper trail — esp now that all major email programs are so easy to keyword search through… I get so many critical links, passwords, articles etc sent to me via IM and then a few months later… doh!!

Excited to join forces with you again for our next collaboration, “O, Brother from Another Mother, Where Art Thou?” followed by the WSJ-produced vehicle, “No Country for Old Email Marketers”…