For the July 2013 Nightlife spot Tony Delroy and I be looking at email – reduce the volume of email we receive or should we abolish it altogether. Join us from 10pm, July 25 on ABC Local Radio across Australia.
Should you have missed the spot, it’s available for download at the ABC Nightlife website and listener’s questions are answered on our follow up post.
In the United States, the Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig claims he’s never sent an email in his life. While Bud is an older worker with plenty of staff to print out his electronic messages, many of us are looking for ways of getting out from under the daily deluge of messages.
While executives of major sports may be able to get away without using email, most people working in modern organisations can’t. So different companies have introduced different ways of reducing the amount of email flowing around their organisations.
French company Atos is moving to completely ban internal email with CEO Thierry Breton claiming he hasn’t sent an email since 2008. In Australia, Telstra head David Thodey is winning acclaim for his use of enterprise social media service Yammer.
Tony and I will be looking at how all of us can reduce our email load with filters, social media and business collaboration tools. Some of the questions we’ll be covering include;
- How can the US Baseball Commissioner get away with never using email?
- So how does the French company work without email?
- What sort of collaboration tools can companies use?
- Telstra’s CEO is using social media, what is he doing there?
- Are there any replacements for email?
- Can we expect to see email disappearing soon?
- How can we reduce the email load?
- Australia’s come in around 40th on an international survey on Internet use. Why are we so low?
- Along with mainstream press, social media went nuts about the royal birth this week. Just how bad was it?
On the topic of social media and collaboration tools, Salesforce claim some major business benefits from their Chatter app, including thirty one percent of users claiming few meetings which in itself is a major productivity improvement.
We’d love to hear your views so join the conversation with your on-air questions, ideas or comments; phone in on the night on 1300 800 222 within Australia or +61 2 8333 1000 from outside Australia.
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why would we want to kill email – is just to bring in new technology or to make business and other communications more efficient
It’s to make business more efficient, Eli. There’s no shortage of surveys showing workers waste hours a day on email. There’s also risks with things like security and document control.
Paul, you mentioned the other night on Nightlife about using a microsoft virus protection, which I understand you use. What is the description, please? Also, how do I get rid of McAfee?
thank you
Vernon Butterly
Hi Vernon,
All the answers are here;
http://paulwallbank.com/2013/07/26/listeners-questions-to-abc-nightlife-radio-program/
Paul,
Many thanks.
I am a regular listener to ‘Mr Delroy’
Vernon