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| | Excerpt from: Think Outside the Feed | | | November 21, 2003 | | The scroll bar for my Outlook inbox vanished for the first time in 7 years. | This indicates that I have fewer messages in my inbox than will sustain the need for scrolling. ;-) This is a landmark event for me - I receive about 100 business-related emails every 24 hours (used to be 200, and about 500 if you include spam). I deal with this level of communication by supplementing email with RSS and channels. Both afford me the latitude of responding to many inquiries with a simple link (i.e., an answer that is encapsulated in some content item previously created). I've learned that the best way to improve my own productivity is to publish discrete information objects that can be easily shared and consumed by people seeking my help, guidance, or direction. Making that information available as RSS causes many productivity-enhancing events to unfold: - I can harvest my own RSS content to my local system (or notebook) through NewsGator. This makes all this information available for local search with Scopeware Vision, and also when I'm disconnected (i.e., I can still respond to an email with a URL that contains a referenced answer or response).
- Other people that I deal with on a frequent basis can also subscribe to a vast array of things I write. This has multiple advantages - they get my thoughts in real-time and I don't get as many messages requesting my thoughts.
I think I'm about 7% more productive by taking the time to publish more and react less - and in a form that supports immediate RSS availability. That's the equivalence of about fourteen 8 hour workdays per year which is roughly equivalent to the amount of time I plan to spend in Kona, Hawaii. RSS for personal information management - who'd a thought? | | |
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