Comments on: Email is for old fogies…but it’s not going away anytime soon.

By: Google is Old, Yahoo is Young, but Lifestyle is better determiner of social media usage « ZUP 4 Nonprofits

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:53:39 +0000

[...] Google is Old, Yahoo is Young, but Lifestyle is better determiner of social media usage Joel Cere’s headline, “Poor Young People Use Yahoo; Rich Old People Use Google,” in response to recently released research from Hitwise leads back to an issue I promised Beth Kanter I’d ponder this last weekend: lifestyle versus age when examining how people use social media. This issue arose after Beth informally polled a group of teens about their social media usage. Not one of them used Twitter, yet all used text messaging (SMS). I’ve gotten into the “age” issue before, in my post on email is for old fogies. [...]

By: When Wikis Trump Email « ZUP 4 Nonprofits

When Wikis Trump Email « ZUP 4 Nonprofits — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:47:06 +0000

[...] month, I wrote how email might not be going away anytime soon, and I stick with that. But having held jobs where I’d leave my desk for a [...]

By: When wikis trump email–collaboration and a smaller inbox « ZUP 4 Nonprofits

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:29:26 +0000

[...] month, I wrote how email might not be going away anytime soon, and I stick with that. But having held jobs where I’d leave my desk for a [...]

By: audriez

audriez — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:20:56 +0000

Thanks for checking in, Marco. I’m currently expanding my horizons (I don’t yet “tweet”–but did register for an account. I may make the plunge this weekend). In some parts of the nonprofit sector, budget & time are not the only issues holding back adoption of technology–sometimes it’s a confidentiality issue. Social networking is generally very transparent; users of it expect transparency. Nonprofit agencies in the human service sector are generally bound to confidentiality–so there may be a hesitancy to have staff get involved. On the other hand, trust, bonding and relationship building are important too and these technologies can offer that. And certainly, the execs/managers need to learn that (if well-managed) these technologies can make their lives easier.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:00:40 +0000

Love it! Thanks for this excellent perspective. I work in the nonprofit world in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and this is very much an issue for how we communicate within our sector.

As much as I would love to set up numerous RSS feeds to get out our information (well, and we are in that process), it’s email that will reach my peers if I really want to get them some information. So, sure, RSS we’ll set up, but only with an email subscription option for each feed (yay Feedburner!).

Our clients are steps ahead of us in terms of technology, so we do need to start using RSS, twitter and other “bite size” technologies, but email is not at all irrelevant and, I think, never will be.

Glad I found your site!