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Thanks for the oppertunity to respond I have voted because there are now too mant E Mails which detracts from the interest level. It seems to have happened since we changed the structure of the faculties. Information and communication is always good for us all but there is a danger of suffocation from volume which could lead to a reduction of interest. Bye the way the CAB is brilliant. Barry kitchen(retired)
Thanks Steve H you said it for me.
I've no problem with the number of mails from CILT. The fact is e-mail's are a modern day phenomena both in the work place and at home. For me I prefer lots of short e-mails covering a single issue/subject rather than hideously long and convoluted ones. That way I can scan them quickly and dispense with those that are of no interest and move on to those that need my attention.
The weekly newsletter's fine. It's the repetitive event announcements which annoy me. Perhaps Tyne-Tees members are deleting them all, thereby missing their local meetings.
I think all organisations should actively seek to control e mail and well done CILT. A consolidated e mail every 2-3 days would suffice, though I would not want this policy to cut out the region. Notwithstanding the odd comment, I do appreciate David Jinks' slightly informal round up.
Steve H has it pretty much nailed, I can scan my e-mails and only review those that are relevant to me and my life, the rest can go in one easy and quick ress of the delete button
No problem to receive emails from the Institute for which we pay a large subscription isn't that the point to be informed. You are dammed if you do, and dammed if you dont, but if you ask the question you always get the complainers! Still do agree with comments about the magazine, but then again some of it has to be down to the members as we could all submit "interesting" articles of our own. Look forward to seeing/reading the interesting article submitted by David S.D in the next issue!!
Steve H pretty much sums up my thoughts, I'd rather decide what I want or do not want to read, yes its a pain getting 80+ e-mails a day, but as Steve H says, we are big enough to manage these. If I'm away and have to delete a couple of hundred e-mails its funny how the world keep turning.
One thing i would add though is plese keep the main body of the e-mails relevent and do not clutter with adverts. This seems to be the trend everywhere in web land nowadays , e.g. even twitter has revised its policy on this.
I don't care if you are the Head of the Commercial Bank of Nigeria. I'm still not giving you my bloody bank account details!
I'm with Steve H on this one: I can delete e-mails in milliseconds based on their titles, or time of arrival (like when I'm in the middle of doing something and the mail 'ghost' appears in the bottom right of my screen. Having Outlook's autopreview is also invaluable. And I put others in folders for reading later - again, seconds of time, not hours. My in-box is rarely bigger than 20 mails. I'd rather have 'too many' than no information at all. Please keep 'em coming !
As previously stated, I am relaxed and have abundant time to read my mail from this prestigious institution of higher learning.
Many thanks.
I get shedloads of email at work and at home, but here's the thing: I'm a big boy, and I can read quite quickly, and I have had a sneaky look over my shoulder and guess what? No-one is forcing me to read anything. It takes about 5 seconds to look at an email and decide if I'm going to give it any more of my life. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. My call. My choice. So keep it coming, and I'll decide if it's worth the effort.
No problem with CILT email frequency. I would prefer if they didn't end up with a weblink to the rest of the story though as I often review "broadcast" emails on the plane.
Agree, one consolidated email a day would suffice. Also, the "last chance to attend" back up emails to forums can be a bit annoying, so perhaps an option to decline from the outset would be more efficient? Bottom line is we should visit the CILT website daily anyway to find out "whats new". GRW
Thank you David S-D for succinctly expressing in your first paragraph an exact replication of my own views. Dumbing down indeed.
Perhaps consolidation would be a good idea. But as for myself I have no problems receiving emails for each and every topic. I find all communications informative and interesting.
It's OK for me now, because I am retired! Neverthless, David Jinks editorial shows the problem - there is no limit to how many emails can be received at the workface, and, in the last days for me anyway,when at work in a Rail Operating Control, an obligation to try to read them, to find out which were relevant to my section and print them off, rather than getting hard copy supplied to the desk as had been the norm since time immemorial. This meant that I could potentially be distracted from being proactive where it counted. Unfortunately, latterly, we had to sort through dozens every day The email is brilliant for some things e.g.to give hard copy of something perhaps discussed over the 'phone, and to send to other persons/functions which may need some input, give the benefit of their experience/knowledge. Unfortunately, I increasingly found that you would get 2 people 'agreeing' things without reference to operating instructions/restrictions, or to who else might need to know about them, or say that they were OK. The facility of email seemed to breed a 'Can do' without awareness of what was actually required, or permissible, at the sharp end. I could go on - suffice to say that we would find things out that hadn't been properly arranged, coming with traction that wasn't allowed over the 'planned' route and, in the case of one land cruise, already en route and booked to spend a couple of days north and west of Inverness, no chance whatsoever of providing a loco that would enable it to do so. Sorry - this isn't just about the number of emails out there, but the effect they have had on the old but reliable hard copy way of disseminating information to the places which needed it.
The medium is indeed shaping the message. Ten years ago the CIT published Proceedings which were thoughtful, interesting and professional. Now we get e mails that sound like a summary of Top Gear (and I don't get much ruder than that), and Focus which is largely full of self aggrandisement. Both logistics and transport are more interesting than this.
A mathematical question. There has been in Tyne/Tees a negative correlation between e mail publicity for meetings and attendance at them. Is this true elsewhere?
If some members are receiving too mnay emails, are their contact details up to date?
I was receiving emails to both my personal and work addresses.
Simples!
Yes, I am getting VERY edgy about the ridiculous number of emails I am getting. Several every day it would seem. 2 or 3 copies of many of them.