Email communications – friend or foe?

Can you imagine functioning in your role as a communicator without email? Impossible. We have become fully dependent upon the tool. Sure, we may complain about the number of emails we receive, but at the same time, we can easily rhyme off the advantages of having email in our lives. For example:
Simple communication with a [...]

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More emails than time

Chris Anderson, a former tech journalist and the curator of TED – a series of conferences and free online talks that centre on technology, entertainment and design (which I highly recommend if you haven’t checked them out already) – was interviewed on July 22nd on CBC Radio’s Q about how email actively devours people’s time. [...]

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Email me. I need validation.

Every day, I’m puzzled by the number of people I see checking mobile email in the darndest of places – during meetings, mid-conversation on a pub patio, etc.    
Even worse is where you see people’s thumbs hard at work sending a message. As they enter an elevator (presumably minutes, if not seconds, from plunking themselves [...]

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