Earlier this week, I wrote about Luis Suarez and his quest to completely rid his life of corporate email.
Today, Nora talked to Luis via Skype, and if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by electronic communication, you’ll want to listen to this interview. In it, Luis explains how he made the leap from email to social software, the challenges he faced, and he offers advice to others who are thinking about cutting email out of their workplace diet.
A shorter version of this interview will air on Episode 85 of Spark, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3.
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Mr. Suarez makes a compelling argument for preferring social networking to email. While he has many valid points, email still comes out ahead in one respect: your email knows everything. Distribution comes with the price of potentially forgetting where you put stuff.
For me, the most useful tool my email provides is search. I've got messages I received back in 2005 that I occasionally consult because they have important information. Now, I suppose I could save that information to a special folder on my computer so I know exactly where to look–but why bother when my email remembers and organizes everything better than I ever can?
I often communicate with friends and coworkers through social networking sites (usually Facebook). But then it becomes a problem of remembering where I sent someone a certain message if I later need to look up the message itself.
Check out google wave! looks like exactly something that Luis would create!