Comments on: Turn Gmail into Your Social Brain http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Nora http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-189090 Nora Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:33:48 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-189090 Don't you hate getting social network notifications through email?! yuck! it messes my email account. i hate it. It's much better getting all social notifications to the desktop. With my <a href="http://www.8hands.com" rel="nofollow">8hands</a>, I can keep my email account organized and manage my social networks in a different platform. Don’t you hate getting social network notifications through email?! yuck! it messes my email account. i hate it.
It’s much better getting all social notifications to the desktop. With my 8hands, I can keep my email account organized and manage my social networks in a different platform.

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]]> By: kosmetsas http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184785 kosmetsas Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:54:55 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184785 gmail for ever! gmail for ever!

]]> By: S. Srinivasan http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184251 S. Srinivasan Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:15:39 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184251 You are right - it's about information overload and declining productivity. While syndicating news feeds from/into your broader social graph, why not tighten your locus and also distribute to-do feeds from/into your work graph? "Making your network work" to me is not just about getting relevant connections, but also about (small) work group productivity. The killer app will be able to syndicate both types of graphs. And that is most definitely not eMail, because eMail is fundamentally a personal tool, and lacks group intelligence available in a shared environment. You are right – it’s about information overload and declining productivity. While syndicating news feeds from/into your broader social graph, why not tighten your locus and also distribute to-do feeds from/into your work graph? “Making your network work” to me is not just about getting relevant connections, but also about (small) work group productivity. The killer app will be able to syndicate both types of graphs. And that is most definitely not eMail, because eMail is fundamentally a personal tool, and lacks group intelligence available in a shared environment.

]]> By: ebrown http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184106 ebrown Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:44:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184106 Yeah! I love the idea of taking every opportunity to make <a href="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/grow-your-network-and-make-your-contacts-work-for-you/" rel="nofollow">your networks</a> work for you. Some Web Workers I know, need help with personal productivity. They have several communication apps open at once and do not do a very good job of multi-tasking. I am in that category as well. It is easy to get pulled off target and run down a rabbit trail only to find yourself backtracking 30-45 minutes later. I still like this idea, but I wonder if someone is working on something better. Yeah! I love the idea of taking every opportunity to make your networks work for you. Some Web Workers I know, need help with personal productivity. They have several communication apps open at once and do not do a very good job of multi-tasking. I am in that category as well. It is easy to get pulled off target and run down a rabbit trail only to find yourself backtracking 30-45 minutes later. I still like this idea, but I wonder if someone is working on something better.

]]> By: aarondavidson http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184073 aarondavidson Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:28:57 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184073 I think that there is a need to break free of using an email client for everything. Information overload, as well as a gradual destruction of productivity if you are notified of RSS feeds, and incoming email constantly. Why do you need your email broken down into SMSs to you? No one needs to be connected 24/7 -<a href="http://www.aarondavidson.com" rel="nofollow">Aaron</a> I think that there is a need to break free of using an email client for everything. Information overload, as well as a gradual destruction of productivity if you are notified of RSS feeds, and incoming email constantly. Why do you need your email broken down into SMSs to you? No one needs to be connected 24/7

-Aaron

]]> By: S. Srinivasan http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184006 S. Srinivasan Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:19:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-184006 Information overload started with basic email, and progressively increased with news updates from various newsgroups/blogs/subscriptions. Thankfully we moved the latter type of messages out of our Inbox and into news readers with RSS. But now all these social graph messages are going to start piling in to my InBox. Similar to newsgroups/blogs, I dont think email is the right place for social graph messages. Can someone invent a Social Journal please? The design problem is that this Social Journal needs to be cogniscent of the Importance of people in my life - and that is usually best established by analyzing a personal communications organizer - oops...like email! Information overload started with basic email, and progressively increased with news updates from various newsgroups/blogs/subscriptions. Thankfully we moved the latter type of messages out of our Inbox and into news readers with RSS.

But now all these social graph messages are going to start piling in to my InBox. Similar to newsgroups/blogs, I dont think email is the right place for social graph messages. Can someone invent a Social Journal please?

The design problem is that this Social Journal needs to be cogniscent of the Importance of people in my life – and that is usually best established by analyzing a personal communications organizer – oops…like email!

]]> By: Anne Zelenka http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-183980 Anne Zelenka Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:50:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-183980 The tips aren't specific to Gmail, so if you worry that Google employees will read your social networking messages, you could always use a different email client. The tips aren’t specific to Gmail, so if you worry that Google employees will read your social networking messages, you could always use a different email client.

]]> By: Mike http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-183911 Mike Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:47:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/09/27/turn-gmail-into-your-social-brain/#comment-183911 In other words, Google (employees) can read everything about you? Not a good idea IMHO. In other words, Google (employees) can read everything about you? Not a good idea IMHO.

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