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[James]

"I’ve done an about face on e-mail now that messaging has infiltrated many apps. Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge sees messaging where and when you need it that bests suits the purpose."

Check out this short video on email and Dodge's provocative take on it.

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2012/06/0 ... ailgoaway=

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[richard mitnick]

James-

Thanks, the video was interesting. I have yet to be into messaging in any serious way. On Facebook and Twitter, all I do myself is link my blog posts. I never write. I might thank some group like NASA or ESO which has boosted me in one of their social media applications. If I see something on Facebook, that is where I will thank them. I use the BOINC forums a lot because I spend a lot of time on Public Distributed Computing and Citizen Cyberscience.

I still get lots of email, such as the notifications from this forum and other forums.

We have skype on three computers, we hardly ever even use that.

We are sticks-in-the-mud.

I do not think that anything really ever dies. Not even newspapers. I still read three a day in print. I get tons of news in RSS feeds, seven categories each with its own reader id (news, WSJ, Computing, Music, Jazz, NASA, science). Yet, I still subscribe to and read not only the newspapers, but also some magazines (New Yorker, New York, Dwell, Metropolitan, NY Review of Books, Biblical Archaeology Review, Newsweek, etc).

You know, everything has its place.

Thanks again for thinking of me.

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[Edward]

E-mail is a fundamental part of the Internet. I do not believe it will ever go away.

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[richard mitnick]

Edward is correct. One place I see it is in my work as a financial admin. All of our ETF payments from our customers are advised to us via email. Major credit card customers it's the same thing. Requests for our minority status certificates, credit reference requests and just so many other thing, still all through email..


Same with fax. Fax will never go away. Most of our sales work, quotations, purchase orders, all still done via fax.

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[James]

I also believe you are correct. In truth, I don't think Dodge actually believed it would and should completely disappear but was trying to be provocative and stir up conversation (but that's just a guess). My own thought is that email will gradually shrink to virtual non-use among private individuals rather than legacy/business consumers. As he mentioned in his piece (and as I've personally experienced), much of the communication among younger people today is via texting, instant messaging (via Facebook and other IM programs) and calls on their cells. Ten years ago my grandson would write to me several times a week. I can't remember the last email he sent but he will text me and send an IM. I communicate with my co-workers when I'm not there and it isn't by email but by texting. I think that among the private sector, emailing will definitely decline.

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[Antony]

Do you have a link to John Dodge's previous video that he said email was there to stay (as he mentioned in linked video)?

I treat emails and other forms of messages differently. However, apart from his intention of provocative, he does have some (valid) points (not that I agree).

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[James]

I'm afraid I don't have t he link to his original article, Antony. It would be interesting to compare his ideas then with his ideas now.

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[Edward]

If anything should go away, it's junk faxes. Machine goes "beep". Please verify your "fax listing"... Right.

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