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No More Email?

filed under Demographics, Mobile Phone, Strategy by rob on 19Jul06 @ 10:26 pm EST

I turn 35 in a couple weeks. I don’t feel that old. But I do now. E-mail losing its clout in the world of text-driven communication:

E-mail is so last millennium.

Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder â€“ a parent, teacher or a boss â€“ or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favor to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Thanks to Steve for the tip.

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1 Pete C on Jul 20th, 2006 said:

What effect should this have on missionary newsletters? Their nature of being bi-monthly (or thereabouts) is useful because many people don’t desire to or have time to know everything — they would prefer a summary. IM doesn’t facilitate this because it doesn’t do mass communication and cannot be later used for those not on the internet. Blogs don’t have summaries and don’t lend themselves to being printed out.

Blogs (et al) have the nack of being dipped into depending on the user’s interests, especially with RSS feeds — I often wont look at every posting someone has made if the title suggests something irrelevant. Tagging could help maybe: some could only subscribe to postings about prayer “needs,” for example.
2 rob on Jul 20th, 2006 said:

Pete, thanks for weiging in. it is interesing, isn’t it? The way I look at it is that we have multiple tools to communicate particular messages to particular audiences in particular time frames. Each has it’s own advantages and disadvantages.

I’ve played with this a lot in my communications to my financial supporters. Many argue to put all posts about yourself in one blog, ministry-related or not. Others, like myself, say that if you have enough to say about something, make it it’s own blog.

That’s why you’re reading this at eMinistryNotes.com instead of orangejack.com/eministry or something like that. I realized at eMinistryNotes.com, I will involve a new audience…one that may or may not care about my personal stuff. So now I have the “orangejack network ™” that includes orangejack.com (for the ministry of my wife and I), rob.orangejack.com (for my personal stuff), patricia.orangejack.com (for my wife’s personal stuff), and eMinistryNotes.com for my ministry-related tips. Each has it’s own audience.
3 Mag on Jul 20th, 2006 said:

I struggle with this lately, mainly because I have thus far enjoyed the room to “vent” daily mundane thus far, but feel the direction of the blog changing. Is God just asking for my “vent” and to give the blog to him as it’s gained more readership and credibility, or is it because of the personal stuff that people hang around? (I probably would not hang at eministrynotes.com and feel comfortable commenting had I not seen and been aware of the commitment to family.)

For now, I feel the Lord telling me to leave it alone. A mentor once told me that one reason people come and stay is because they know I’m real. I think you guys do a good job of combining both even in the “tech” stuff. Appreciate the slant.