Another step towards being completely out of touch

[Ns1]

#3

yes, by admins when they're sending out invites and general notices. ie building maintenance, holiday parties, weekend lights, etc.

also by peers/work friends

have never seen a non-admin or work friend use a meme or gif on work email

 

[OutHouse]

Now, the webinar is recommending things that I used to think were bad.

For example, be sure to use multiple communication methods and don't use email for everything. Tweet, text, blog, video, FB, SharePoint...

This is for project management. Is it really expected that I have to monitor 8 different sources in order to follow what's going on?

Thats just plain stupid.

 

[Ns1]

Now, the webinar is recommending things that I used to think were bad.

For example, be sure to use multiple communication methods and don't use email for everything. Tweet, text, blog, video, FB, SharePoint...

This is for project management. Is it really expected that I have to monitor 8 different sources in order to follow what's going on?

what the fuck kind of project would you manage that has tweets and blogs? what the fuck?

 

[clamum]

#1, #2 are good ideas.

A few of us around the office use #3, but it's usually in personal emails for a laugh... not really for communication. Like if somebody did something stupid, we might send a facepalm pic to a few select people that would find it funny (but not to everybody, as that'd be unprofessional).

Another staple is the "The More You Know" shooting star which can get sent whenever somebody brings up some crucial piece of info about some equipment we didn't know before. Or the quote from Anchorman "boy, that escalated quickly" when people get pissy over email. That one can actually be good to defuse an otherwise tense exchange.

This I do too, but like you only to a couple close co-workers. The Borat "great success" one is common, LOL.

 

[sourceninja]

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[BarkingGhostar]

I like watching the buffer advance ahead of the play progress and then FF accordingly. When done I ignore the questions with the exception of C&P into Word document and then retaking test for the win.

Companies like this are usually run by leaders not getting any.

 

[clamum]

And if you keep the emails short, then details are left out, so there's a constant stream of back-and-forth to wring out the necessary information.

It doesn't help much that I can type out a novel of an email in no time flat. 60-100WPM if I've got my thoughts well organized and am able to really start blasting away at the keyboard.

This is the thing... I know that keeping emails short is *usually* ideal, but I find that it can leave out a ton of relevant info. There's been a lot of times when I've gotten an email from someone and was just like "wat" because they had left out so much f'ing details. I try and add necessary details to mine and that can grow the email length quickly (I also type ~100 WPM or so).

 

[kranky]

How many PDU(s) was it worth?

Just 1.

what the fuck kind of project would you manage that has tweets and blogs? what the fuck?

After giving this some more thought a few hours after the webinar ended, I believe the presenter's experience was in small software companies where technology is used just because it exists. Presenter showed a screenshot of an actual email that was received - it would have been about one page long on paper, and the presenter used it as an example of an email that was deleted without even being read because it was just too long. This was justified by pointing to studies showing attention spans are becoming shorter because of technology.

I have no idea what kind of real-world project someone could be handling where you can justify deleting emails because they were too long to read.

But if someone works on a small project team where everybody already tweets, blogs, emails, texts, etc. back and forth with each other, I guess you might want to tell other people how it's the hot thing to use all those methods of communications.

I will say that many of the comments from others at the webinar raved about the "innovative techniques" presented.