Information Overload is Killing Productivity -- The Future of Social Tools and Processes
The goal is to specifically discuss how email is or is not living up to the job of content collaboration.
The Experts
- Alan Lepofsky, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research - @alanlepo
- Tom Petrocelli, Research Director, Enterprise Social at Neuralytix, Inc. - @tompetrocelli
- Bill Cushard, Training Lead at ServiceRocket - @billcush
- Jodi Bart Holzband, Director of Communications at Bloomfire - @tastytouring
- Dan Keldsen, Business Strategist at NFP Health - @DanKeldsen
The Questions
These questions will shape the discussion:
- How do you primarily receive/consume the information that you need to do your job (e.g., web, intranet, email, social channels, etc.)?
- Is information overload/scatter/silo'ing causing you to miss out on key task related information? How bad is this problem in your workplace?
- How much time do you spend in email each day? And considering this, how do you feel about email-based information findability?
- What tools or practices do you use to help you prioritize important content you need to read?
- What are your top 3 dislikes of email as a content/information sharing tool?
- Tell us why or why not you think social business software will kill email or at least make it a much less prevalent tool.
Participation Guidelines
- Introduce yourself with your first #SocBizChat tweet. Include your name, job title and organization you work for.
- Subsequent tweets must start with the question number you are responding to and the #SocBizChat hashtag. For example, "@bigbird Q5 Dislike #1 is flakey conversational threading of email #SocBizChat"
- Please don't pitch products or services -- stay knowledge focused.
- Keep the discussion professional, but informal.
- Remember that this is a public chat -- be thoughtful.