Is Gmail and Twitter changing our view on email?
I’m going to start with an observation – people I come in contact with professionally are more and more using their Gmail address instead of name@companydomain.com-type addresses. Not sure if this is because Gmail is such a wonderful service or if all the social networking has made us more personal and less “official”?
Could it be that all the networking we do on services like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on, builds our personal brands to the point where a personal Gmail address feels much more relevant than our company email? We change positions and companies, but seldom our identity…
And then we have lots and lots of companies and organisations going from Exchange to cloud email services, but that’s another story…
What do you think?
Have you noticed the same or am I just wrong?
torsdag 25 februari 2010 kl. 17:26
av Paul
Despite the awesome cultural implications you are aiming for, me – being me, can offer the rather lack-lustre personal observation that my hotmail (never got any gmail invites *sniff*) is WAY more stable than the web-mail clients that have been offered for my previous office accounts. If I’m on the move, and so is my client (and I noticed not having a mobile surfing platform sucks yesterday) then hotmail is always accessible, and reliable. Hell I’d trust facebook messaging over my work account due to reliability of service. I apologise for the mundaneness of my thought process. Back on track I did swing by my old office and had a good time with old colleagues, and got a few tips, and I think people trust people. It’s a one on one communication thing, you know a person in your network you can trust and you want contact with “THEM” not their corporate identity….it’s that camp-fire hunter gather things I’m sure….