Comments on: Phone, E-mail, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, or Smoke Signals

By: Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:16:34 +0000

I’m with Chad re email. It’s my foundation. But I think Big Bags makes an important point about expectation. Frankly, I’m a little overwhelmed with all my “connection portals” as I call them. Which is why I’ve started deleting most of them, choosing instead to focus on just the handful that I can meaningfully engage with.

By: Bags

Bags — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:08:28 +0000

The scary thing about Social Media is that once you stick your toe in the water of one platform or another, the audience that you interact with often becomes expectant that you will always communicate through that medium.

So, to answer your question, yes, checking multiple portals is pretty necessary. E-mail is becoming antiquated, but it’s still the most prevalent form of communication, however annoying it may be.

Social media can be fun and productive… but it can also be overwhelming and a complete time suck.

By: Maile Keone

Maile Keone — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:43:54 +0000

Chad, you make a great point- technology allows us to integrate the tools together so we can use e-mail as a portal. Every individual still has to decide how much to integrate. I don’t know that I’ll ever put my tweet stream on my phone, but know many who do.

By: Chad Mustard

Chad Mustard — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:30:39 +0000

I still use email for my most important communications. As great as Twitter, Facebook, and all of the other social networks are, they still don’t save the info like my gmail can. The ability to archive and search old emails has helped save me many times.

I have most of my networks integrated with my email, so I get notified if someone is trying to contact me via my social networks. My email is my hub of info. So if someone is direct messaging me on Twitter, I’ll get the email almost as fast.