Craig Roth

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When Gen Y’ers Will Use E-mail

by Craig Roth  |  August 9, 2010  |  1 Comment

I’m proposing some counter-wisdom about whether Gen Y and social software will kill e-mail.  I’ve read and repeated the assertion that Gen Y will challenge the enterprise’s reliance on e-mail since they have learned – successfully – to leverage Twitter, SMS, blogs, and Facebook instead.  So e-mail’s dead, right?  Not so fast.  Whenever I hear [...]

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EAM Meets Social Software

by Craig Roth  |  May 28, 2010  |  Comments Off

Information overload coverage is predominantly about e-mail. That’s understandable – it’s where the message pipe into information workers’ brains tends to be at fire hose levels, threatening to fill their heads like balloons. But I’ve started to get questions on how social software will add to the overload. That’s a good point given Gartner’s prediction [...]

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