DISQUS

Jared Goralnick · 1 year ago

Sarah,

I can't agree with you more! Most businesses forget that technology doesn't create productive users. Training is the only thing that really has a chance at accomplishing that. Good technology + training is where a company gets a chance to thrive internally. If you saw how ridiculous I get with my employees when they email instead of posting to our project site...they learn their lesson FAST. And that stuff works...

I like the idea of Attent, in principle, but as you mentioned, it doesn't help with external emails. I'd also be very curious how it would work within a chain of command--for instance, a boss could send something with 1 serios, but that boss's message would be intrinsically more important than a message from someone else. In other words, WHO a message is from is the real currency of messages.

I've been enjoying your writing here and on RWW about productivity and overload. I'll be attending IORG in NY (will you be there?) and look forward to more of this stuff! Hopefully more tools like Attent will keep coming out and some will really stick.

sarahintampa · 1 year ago

Thanks! I won't be attending IORG in NY, but I can't wait to hear what comes out of it. Will you be blogging it?

Jared Goralnick · 1 year ago

Messaging me about something I need to know today (like a canceled meeting)? Please click here to get my attention:

http://awayfind.com/jared

In an effort to accomplish more at work than *just* email, I'm now checking it once or twice per day--this should also help me to get back to you more quickly. If you need a more immediate response, just click the link above.

Jared Goralnick
Work: www.setconsulting.com
Blog: www.technotheory.com
Productivity: www.awayfind.com

sarahintampa · 1 year ago

WHOA. awesome.

Jared Goralnick · 1 year ago

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Jared Goralnick · 1 year ago

I definitely will cover parts of the event on Technotheory :-). Sorry you won't be coming!

sarahintampa · 1 year ago

cool - subscribed :)

Nathan Zeldes · 1 year ago

Actually, from my acquaintance with Attent, it is not about "how much one can “afford” to email". Users of Attent can email as much as they want, since they can always send messages with zero Serios attached. Unlike solutions with a hard quota of postage, where you can run out of "stamps", Attent takes a more sophisticated approach. The Serios are optional, and are used to bid on the recipient's attention - if I receive a message with 50 serios where normally i see only 5 or 10, I am more likely to open that message first, because the sender had indicated it's important to him that I read it.

In the IORG conference we have Attent as a participant on the innovative vendor panel, so Jared will be able to report more on this!

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