Web Worker Daily

Something that web workers deal with throughout the day but don’t spend a lot of time talking about is the deluge of e-mail alerts, updates, and notifications that batter us like a cacophonous rain of data throughout the day, much of it due to the social media web sites that keep a modern web worker dialed in and informed.

Twimailer is a new service that aims to provide a lot more value to Twitter email alerts by putting Twitter profile data right into the alert email itself. This is something that could save web workers the time and effort of having to go to Twitter to check out the user’s details, so is certainly worth checking out.

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I’ve noticed that web workers tend to be particular about their communication tools. Twitter is usually for mass sharing, wikis or collab apps are for project discussions, while email is for almost everything else.

We all have our own preferences when it comes to communicating with others. I prefer email for general communication, instant messaging for answering quick questions, and my land line for long, personal conversations.

But not all people understand this – especially if they aren’t web workers. In fact, before I had a system in place, I felt like a doctor who was on call 24 hours a day. The good news is that there are some things we can do to get people to reach us through the channels we prefer.

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