Comments on: How Much is Your Attention to Email Really Worth? Seriously? Seriosity. http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Yomi Adegboye http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25810 Yomi Adegboye Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:20:05 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25810 I definitely am skeptical about this. It does seem.... well, crazy. But then don't we know of a few crazy ideas that eventually worked? I definitely am skeptical about this. It does seem…. well, crazy. But then don’t we know of a few crazy ideas that eventually worked?

]]> By: Judi Sohn http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25805 Judi Sohn Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:14:25 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25805 I agree Mark & Dangerfield. I hope you picked up that I was rather skeptical. It got my attention because of the funding it got, and the talent behind it. This isn't fly-by-night. They really think they can pull it off. When I'm sending a work-related email, I'm thinking about the content and the project I'm working on. I just can't imagine sitting there in my work day worrying about bidding on my email or what badge I've earned. If I worked in corporate America and my company's IT department spent time implementing this, I'd be hitting the want ads, but that's just me. Sure, I can see IT folks showing interest...but can they sell it to the masses? I can't even get my folks to remember to log certain communications in our database in a consistent manner. Who knows, though...maybe it will take off. Stranger things have happened. I agree Mark & Dangerfield. I hope you picked up that I was rather skeptical. It got my attention because of the funding it got, and the talent behind it. This isn’t fly-by-night. They really think they can pull it off.

When I’m sending a work-related email, I’m thinking about the content and the project I’m working on. I just can’t imagine sitting there in my work day worrying about bidding on my email or what badge I’ve earned. If I worked in corporate America and my company’s IT department spent time implementing this, I’d be hitting the want ads, but that’s just me. Sure, I can see IT folks showing interest…but can they sell it to the masses? I can’t even get my folks to remember to log certain communications in our database in a consistent manner.

Who knows, though…maybe it will take off. Stranger things have happened.

]]> By: dangerfield http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25789 dangerfield Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:31:38 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25789 That is seriously crazy. I understand the idea, but as MARK above says it won't get to critical mass and will just end up being a gimmick used by gamer companies. What I really like is that someone is plowing millions into this company, the industry must be super boyant and hats off to whoever sold the idea! That is seriously crazy. I understand the idea, but as MARK above says it won’t get to critical mass and will just end up being a gimmick used by gamer companies. What I really like is that someone is plowing millions into this company, the industry must be super boyant and hats off to whoever sold the idea!

]]> By: Mark http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25744 Mark Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:50:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/seriously-seriosity-how-much-is-your-attention-to-email-really-worth/#comment-25744 We can't even get HTML emails to render properly across all the different email clients and somehow we're going to get email users to buy into this sufficiently that it'll hit critical mass and have any meaning in my Inbox? And how do you trust the sender's ability to rate importance? Sure there's more consequence to them if it's tied to currency, but we've all experienced that co-worker who flags every single message as !important. We can’t even get HTML emails to render properly across all the different email clients and somehow we’re going to get email users to buy into this sufficiently that it’ll hit critical mass and have any meaning in my Inbox? And how do you trust the sender’s ability to rate importance? Sure there’s more consequence to them if it’s tied to currency, but we’ve all experienced that co-worker who flags every single message as !important.

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