Or copy everyone in on everything. During my brief time working for a local authority (Leicester City Council, Child Protection Training) I was daily inundated with drivel. I terrified my line manager by opening up the internal email system each morning and deleting everything in the inbox unread. She went ballistic until I pointed out I could either train staff in the hope of reducing child abuse or read emails but not both and it was her choice what I did but I anted her decision in writing and THAT would be the one email I would keep.
The daily average was over 150 emails on everything to the election of the Lord Mayor to the caretakers cat being ill. I always said if its important enough for me to know someone will phone me or talk to me. I am convinced the ease of hitting copy all or reply all has contributed to the amount of written materials that we are often swamped with. I even met staff who were working for senior managers, their role (the staff) was to read all the managers emails and filter out the dross......my suggested solution fell on deaf ears. Ho Hum Colin On 7 August 2012 13:36, A11OGE 4/4 4 seater <[email protected]>wrote: > agreed - at least that way we might only save what is relatively useful, > not just copy and save everything and anything. > > On 7 August 2012 13:30, Roger Tatton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Perhaps we should go back to pen and paper Steve! >> >> Roj >> >> >> -- >> On 07/08/2012 12:42, A11OGE 4/4 4 seater wrote: >> >> It has been estimated that from the beginning of civilization around >> 5,000 years ago to the year 2003, all of humanity created a grand total of >> five exabytes of digital information. From 2003 through 2010 we created >> five exabytes of digital information every two days. By 2013 we will be >> producing five exabytes every ten minutes. The 2010 total of 912 exabytes >> is the equivalent of 18 times the amount of information contained in all >> the books ever written. It isn’t knowledge that we need more of; it is how >> to think about what we know and what we don’t know that is becoming ever >> more critical. >> >> FYI - An Exabte is 10 to the 18th power, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 >> bytes <http://www.techterms.com/definition/byte>. An exabyte is 1,024 >> petabytes <http://www.techterms.com/definition/petabyte>, and so >> on................. >> >> -- >> Steve A11OGE Red 4/4 4 seater >> >> View posts on The Mail Archive >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> >> >> View posts on The Mail Archive >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > Steve A11OGE Red 4/4 4 seater > > View posts on The Mail Archive > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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