Kiwi Scrum

Community email, is more like a modern substitute for the newspaper. The mail might interest and concern you, but it's not personal mail. If you read it or not, it's not going to cause any major problem.

I've been associated with the local forum, "Canterbury Issues", and there's about 30 letters a month. Some people complain that's too many. NONE of the email sent to Canterbury Issues is personal. NONE of it has to be read, today, or any day. If the topic is interesting and you have time, then you read it. If you can't, you don't.

Use a Secondary Email Address

We recommend using a secondary email address for all your community mail. Gmail is the most popular service. Gmail has a very easy to use system for creating "labels" for incoming mail. All the mail for each of your social networks can be collected in separate folders. Read it if you can and if you are interested. Ignore it if you choose.

I've got mail for about 10 different groups going to my gmail account. There are 80+ letters a day from Ryze, about 25 from LinkedIn, and maybe 100 more. I perhaps read 30 of these a day. Most of the LinkedIn ones are very easy to deal with.

Often with threaded messages in a group mail system the best way to deal with the mail in a time saving way is to read the whole thread 3-4 days after it started. Then you can decide if you want to contribute or not.

My Primary Email Address

This is the address I use for mail that is, or might concern me personally. I do have some mail for email lists, coming to my personal address. I probably should shift it to Gmail, but I'm lazy. The point is that I have control. If I'm busy only the personal mail gets read. If I have time I browse through the subject lines and pick our what I like. I also skim the sender list, to make sure I haven't missed something I should read.

People don't generally send me personal mail unless I write personal mail. If I am writing personal letters to people, the replies to those get priority.

Does this system ever fail? Only when I fail. Even if that happens, all my mail is still available, still searchable, and can still be dealt with.

Your Kiwi Scrum Group "setup".
What does Kiwi Scrum Membership offer?
Building your LinkedIn Network
"I don't know you" problems: Open Networkers
Kiwi Scrum Newsletter
Joining other social Networks
Improving your learning rate
Rewriting your LinkedIn Profile
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