Eva
January 25, 2014, 08:54 PM
Co-founder of Facebook, Justin Moskovitz, declared a couple of days ago that email is about to die (http://boingboing.net/2014/01/21/email-dead-again.html).
Mark Zuckerberg also declared (in 2011) that email was dead (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/27/john-naughton-mark-zuckerberg-email).
The Wall Street Journal declared (in 2009) that "email's reign is over" (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372). But...
That's all "horse-stuff"...!
According to some recent research, for marketing purposes, email is "40 times more effective than Facebook and Twitter" (http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/Email_40_times_more_effective_than_Facebook_and_Tw _15924.aspx)...
So... from the looks of it, you shouldn't abandon email yet!
Best wishes,
Dien
Have not checked all your links yet But I tend to agree, email might be SLOW and the response rate might be LOWER but, for an old-timer like myself (57), that is all I want to handle. Forget text messaging (No, I don't even text) and any other kind of gadget. Eventually, I will get around to my emails and when I do, you better be ready, lol,
Eva
Mark Zuckerberg also declared (in 2011) that email was dead (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/27/john-naughton-mark-zuckerberg-email).
The Wall Street Journal declared (in 2009) that "email's reign is over" (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372). But...
That's all "horse-stuff"...!
According to some recent research, for marketing purposes, email is "40 times more effective than Facebook and Twitter" (http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/Email_40_times_more_effective_than_Facebook_and_Tw _15924.aspx)...
So... from the looks of it, you shouldn't abandon email yet!
Best wishes,
Dien
Have not checked all your links yet But I tend to agree, email might be SLOW and the response rate might be LOWER but, for an old-timer like myself (57), that is all I want to handle. Forget text messaging (No, I don't even text) and any other kind of gadget. Eventually, I will get around to my emails and when I do, you better be ready, lol,
Eva
