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

suw.charman@gmail.com@suw on Twitter

strange.corante.comsuw.org.uk