Comments on: Email Effectiveness http://svprojectmanagement.com/email-effectiveness Project management wisdom from practictioners and the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JoshNankivel http://svprojectmanagement.com/email-effectiveness/comment-page-1#comment-1190 JoshNankivel Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:05:34 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/10/email-effectiveness/#comment-1190 Ed, I think you and I may have been separated at birth. I'm normally a contrarian but agree with you on just about everything. There's a potential generational gap too when it comes to communication, <a href="http://www.pmstudent.com/2007/03/young-versus-veteran-communication.html" rel="nofollow">I wrote about an article in the March 2007 edition of PM Network here</a>. In it I re-live my experience when a seasoned veteran gave me a life lesson about communication, and some of the mishaps that can happen with email and other channels. Josh Nankivel <a href="http://www.PMStudent.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.PMStudent.com</a> Ed, I think you and I may have been separated at birth. I’m normally a contrarian but agree with you on just about everything.

There’s a potential generational gap too when it comes to communication, I wrote about an article in the March 2007 edition of PM Network here. In it I re-live my experience when a seasoned veteran gave me a life lesson about communication, and some of the mishaps that can happen with email and other channels.

Josh Nankivel
http://www.PMStudent.com

]]> By: rrinyai http://svprojectmanagement.com/email-effectiveness/comment-page-1#comment-1188 rrinyai Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:45:49 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/10/email-effectiveness/#comment-1188 It's actually amazing of how many people in my office use e-mail, instead of picking up the phone or walking over to the other person's desk. This can cut down quite a bit on misunderstandings. But then if it's an important message that you are trying to convey, it's a good idea to keep a record of it, just in case the person comes back to you and says that they didn't ask you to do something. At least you have proof of what they mentioned in the e-mail. Thanks, Richard Rinyai www.theprofessionalassistant.net It’s actually amazing of how many people in my office use e-mail, instead of picking up the phone or walking over to the other person’s desk. This can cut down quite a bit on misunderstandings.

But then if it’s an important message that you are trying to convey, it’s a good idea to keep a record of it, just in case the person comes back to you and says that they didn’t ask you to do something. At least you have proof of what they mentioned in the e-mail.

Thanks,

Richard Rinyai
http://www.theprofessionalassistant.net

]]> By: kwiefling http://svprojectmanagement.com/email-effectiveness/comment-page-1#comment-1187 kwiefling Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:33:16 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/02/10/email-effectiveness/#comment-1187 Ah, sign me up for a "no thank you helping" of email! Kids are sometimes required to eat things they don't like, but just a little bit, a "no thank you" portion, just a little bit. Like many people, I rely on email. But I personally find it a sub-optimal mechanism for communicating, and have recently had several experiences just like you described in your blog. Email is totally overused in our society. A phone call provides a richness in vocal tone and nuance of meaning that email doesn't offer. Make my email an extra small portion, please! - Kimberly Wiefling, Author, Scrappy Project Management Ah, sign me up for a “no thank you helping” of email! Kids are sometimes required to eat things they don’t like, but just a little bit, a “no thank you” portion, just a little bit. Like many people, I rely on email. But I personally find it a sub-optimal mechanism for communicating, and have recently had several experiences just like you described in your blog. Email is totally overused in our society. A phone call provides a richness in vocal tone and nuance of meaning that email doesn’t offer. Make my email an extra small portion, please! – Kimberly Wiefling, Author, Scrappy Project Management

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