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Social Media for collaboration and information management Suw Charman-Anderson Social Technologist
Social Mediafor collaboration and
information management
Suw Charman-AndersonSocial Technologist
Information is everywhere
‣There is more information available now than ever before
‣How do you organise it?
‣How do you store it?
‣How do you re-find it?
‣How do you share it?
Types of tasks
‣Collect and organise information
‣Share information
‣Collaborate
‣Talk to people
‣Find people
wiki
A few facts about email
‣Majority get too much email
‣38% - more than 100 emails a day
‣13% - more than 250 emails a day
‣Spend too much time in email
‣56% - more than 2 hours a day
‣22% - more than 4 hours
We love email
‣We check email more often than we think
‣50% say every hour
‣35% say every 15 mins
‣ ...Actually it’s more like every 5 mins
We *really* love email
‣Average response time is 1 min 44 sec
‣70% of us respond within 6 seconds
‣ ... that’s faster than a phone ringing 3 times
‣And it takes 64 seconds to recover our train of thought.
‣That’s 8 hours a week for the worst offenders
What do you use email for?
With thanks to
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseywest/346329776/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12148520@N00/360505392/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/observers_pov/158778047/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogmuseum2/174206835/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/559652022/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandj98/273301364/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/holster/3703709645/
Suw Charman-Andersonsocial technologist
[email protected]@suw on Twitter
strange.corante.comsuw.org.uk
