It is 11:10 a.m. and I finally got caught up on my email from the weekend. What a chore. I was thinking about what I did before email (yes, I’m that old). I remember that reading interoffice correspondence was the task for Monday mornings – and every morning. In fact, if I needed to communicate to someone who wasn’t in the office next door I would likely:
1- pick up the phone or
2- put any ‘cya’ communication to paper and distribute it via interoffice mail, and, depending on its importance I may have even made a phone call to tell the intended recipient to expect the memo or
3- walk down the hall to talk in person or
4- not communicate the little things.
Email has changed all of that. Now there is no excuse for not communicating even the most trivial things.
I am not one for small talk so most of my email messages tend to be short and direct. Some think I am far too serious but I think I am pretty light hearted :). I used to think I spent too much time with email but a careful analysis confirms what the experts have been saying – email is an essential tool (suprise!!). Now, if only I could get some work done…
