Would you like to free yourself from the email inbox death grip? #emailless
Do you claim to be a “Social Media” Expert, Guru, Maven, or Social Scientist?
Set yourself free! Yes, you have the power to free yourself from that black hole we call our email inbox. It’s funny how we progress with our communications and how advanced our mobile devices are becoming. I gave my Blackberry away and got a new iPhone and still found myself staying connected with people in very old-fashion ways. I almost felt dirty configuring email on my iPhone. I have turned off email in my iPhone and find myself using email less and less as each day passes.
Can you imagine a world with portable communication devices?
I remember playing with tin cans connected with a string when I was a child. I also remember watching the TV show Star Trek with my brother and we would talk about how cool it would be to have one of those Star Trek Communicators (Remember “Beam me up Scotty”). “WOW, how cool would that be to have the ability to just pull something from your pocket and talk with someone a few miles away!“ We thought it was something much later when we got a set of Walkie Talkies and could talk to each other over all the static just a few feet away. Now we just take our mobile devices for granted. Our smart phones combined with Geocoding & Social Media gives us ESP abilities that trips our “Spidey Senses” when someone we know is in the same area we are in. This technology allows us to take advantage of an opportunity to spend some time with each other in the real world (ITRW), even if it’s just a quick cup of coffee.
Now Imagine A World Without Email?!?!
What? No email! How will I stay in touch with everyone? How will I track my stuff?
How often have you spent way too much time trying to find something in your email inbox? I know I have wasted too much time doing this and I imagine if I could recoup that time, it would add up to a very long vacation in an exotic place. Doing something productive, instead of digging through my inbox would have an exponential effect. My company would save that money. My company would make more money by having me convert that time into more productive tasks. I recommend taking some baby steps, if you are not familar with Social Media. Take it slow so your loved ones & colleagues can stay in touch with you. Start using Instant Messages more, use text messages. Call people when the communication looks like a conversation. Remember to spend some “Face Time” with people that are important to you. You can read more about this at Thinking outside the inbox.
Social Media & The Sematic Web will Replace Email
The future is looking very interesting! I can’t imagine a need for email and asking or answering the same or similar questions over & over when Social Media & The Sematic Web will automatically take care of keeping me up to date.
You can harness the power of crowds and discover the Collective Intelligence very similar to how Trinity learned how to fly a helicopter in The Matrix movie. We are connected, the world is connected. We are learning things and doing things faster than ever, mostly due to the power of Collective Intelligence. When you are about to make a purchase decision, do you email one person or do you go to the web? I use Social Media Communities and Services like Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Orbitz, Facebook, & Google to name just a few. Would you be satisifed with the remote island of email (Wilson’s answer)? Would you rather harness the power of crowds and take the collective intelligence?
Use this article anyway you see fit. I would like a link, but I will only ask that you use the hash tag “#emailLess“. A Hash Tag is a simple method of connecting people & information. Bloggers, WordPress, Twitter users and Social Media experts, please use the #emailLess hash tag in your posts & comments when talking about using email less. Learn more about Hash Tags at http://hashtags.org
How are you using email less?
Please help replace email with Social Media!
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Fav Five Friday: Instant Community with OpenSocial by Google
Happy Fav Five Friday!
Instant Communities for Wordpress Blogs & other Web Media with Google’s Open Social
Hello! Seems like my “Web Developer” side is breaking out today. I have a few things about the Collective Intelligence from Social Media and how important this is in Enterprise 2.0. I may need to save some of that for another post, because my “Web Strategy” side was a bit suppressed when I re-discovered the power of OpenSocial by Google.
Harness The Power of Your Social Media Network with the Magic of Google’s OpenSocial!
Do you think SOCIAL Media should be SOCIAL?
Do you have the me, me, me mentality? If you have the me, me, me mentality then stop wasting your time here and go broadcast something about yourself.
Are you interested in creating relationships while creating solutions?
Are you interested in discovering the “Social” side of Social Media?
Are you willing to help people discover connections without hours of code because you also enjoy things in The Real World (ITRW)?
Web Space is rather large and sometimes there is just too much “Digital Noise” to filter through just to get to what you want. The web is more useful & fun when you can connect with your friends and colleagues. We use social media tools and applications to improve our lifestyle, which leads us to the need of a common API that connects us to our social circles. OpenSocial is a prime example of a common API that does harness the power of your social network. This API uses standard JavaScript and HTML to easily connect “Social” to “Media”.
WordPress 2.7 has been around for awhile now and WordPress seems to be a favorite for many pro bloggers.
Fav Five Videos for WordPress 2.7
These videos cover a few things about this blogging software
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Feature tour of the wordpress 2.7 admin area
Installing WordPress through CPanel
Upgrading from older versions
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 minutes
(Hopefully to get inspired to blog about something.)
You can learn more about WordPress on WordPress TV
WordPress has a ton of tutorials, tips, & tricks on their own channel. Tune in to WordPress TV to catch their latest videos. I am amazed at the great job these guys are doing at WordPress!
Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging
Lorelle VanFossen has done a great job putting together this book to help you with your web strategy on blogging. I like her style of getting back to the basics with a straight forward strategy of keeping things simple. Please click on the Blogging Tips image and take a look at some these chapters absolutely free. I recommend making this small investment in yourself and buy her book.
What about WordPress Plugins?
What are your favorite WordPress Plugins?
Please feel free to add your thoughts about WordPress Blog Software!
Fav Five Friday: Strategy Resources for Enterprise 2.0 with Web 2.0
There are so many resources for Social Media Strategy and Enterprise 2.0. This is especially true when we are trying to find quality information about technology strategies after the hype sets in about these technologies. It seems like everyone has something to say about Social Media, Enterprise 2.0 E2.0, Web 2.0, and even Government 2.0 Gov2.0 these days.
You may be a little busy with your day and find it difficult to keep up on these web strategy trends about social media. You may have a couple of other things going on that keep you from learning how to implement Enterprise 2.0 Solutions or how to incorporate Web 2.0 features into your social platform to increase the Collective Intelligence of your Social Media Platform.
I’m rather busy every day too, but I am religious about reading my RSS Feeds. I use Google Reader to subscribe to feeds of some of the best minds in our industry. I just wanted to share some of my top picks with you here and if you know of others, please let me know.
Top 5 Feeds for Tips on Enterprise 2.0 & Web Strategy
Andrew P. McAfee
I met Andrew P. McAfee several months ago and was impressed with his understanding about REAL WORLD Enterprise 2.0. I am stalking him on Twitter and really appreciate all his activity in the Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) world.
Jeremiah Owyang does a great job at delivering user and community needs, business goals, and web technology to craft and deliver long term successful web programs for companies. I also recommend following him on Twitter.
I work with Steve, so I was thinking about not including him in this list, but his passion for Social Media especially in the Government 2.0 World is contagious. Steve’s strong background in change management, strategic communications, and stakeholder engagement strategy and implementation along with all his relentless activity in the world of Social Media forced me to add him to this list. I really believe that Steve never sleeps. He is very connected into the Social Media Community and has a lot to say. I dare you to follow him on Twitter.
The Media 2.0 Workgroup is a group of industry commentators, agitators and innovators who believe that the phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution and consumption. Join the conversation…
The vision for this blog will be the intersection of research / intelligence and social media. Traditional media and traditional research methods are being supplanted by new analytic tools that focus on social media – blogs, discussion fora, social networking sites. Here, I’ll present and discuss the new research tools as they become available, and how traditional research methods are evolving to remain relevant in the advent of new media.
