Blue Glass on Sand

Someone was giving me their war stories about their personal email, and I wondered about mine. I have email coming in from 5 or 6 domains and a couple of gmail accounts. I handle it all through Google Apps For Your Domain, which does a very creditable job of icing SPAM for me. I did a quick check and in the last 30 day I received 1295 emails, no spam. Call it 40 a day.

The vast majority were notifications from Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn, or communications from suppliers I have a relationship with [usually tagged and filtered]. I got 16 from contacts in the Coastguard; 20 from a fraternal organisation; 25 as email output from a Yahoo Knowledge Management Group. The last three could all be handled via blogs/wiki/groups.

Personally addressed email to *me*? Only for me? I got… none.

My personal contacts come to me via Facebook; via Twitter; via Skype messaging, or by SMS. I guess in those terms I really am “Thinking Outside the Inbox” as Luis Suarez would say.

I only wish my work email was as simple 🙂 – about 20 a day, about half of which requires me to do something… and about 80% of that could be dealt with better. Will SharePoint 2010 help address that? I do hope so.

How much of your email is really personal to you?

Image Credit: Owen’s

3 thoughts on “How much email do you really get?

  1. interested on your views on using google apps for your domain, and why you went that route as opposed to pure freebie route?

  2. To be fair, I use WordPress (obviously) for my site; initially, I mapped my domain name to WordPress.com, and GAYD was the easiest way to get matching mail.(http://steveellwood.com/2008/0… Because it’s WordPress, it was peasy to migrate to selfhosting (http://steveellwood.com/2009/0… – but I was (and am) very happy with my GAYD mail so it stayed like that

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