Social Media
for collaboration and
information management
Suw Charman-Anderson
Social Technologist

Information is
everywhere
‣ There is more information available now than
ever before
‣ How do you organise it?
‣ How do you store it?
‣ How do you re-find it?
‣ How do you share it?

Types of tasks
‣ Collect and organise information
‣ Share information
‣ Collaborate
‣ Talk to people
‣ Find people

wiki

A few facts about
email
‣ Majority get too much email
‣ 38% - more than 100 emails a day
‣ 13% - more than 250 emails a day
‣ Spend too much time in email
‣ 56% - more than 2 hours a day
‣ 22% - more than 4 hours

We love email
‣ We check email more often than we think
‣ 50% say every hour
‣ 35% say every 15 mins
‣ ...Actually it’s more like every 5 mins

We *really* love
email
‣ Average response time is 1 min 44 sec
‣ 70% of us respond within 6 seconds
‣ ... that’s faster than a phone ringing 3 times
‣ And it takes 64 seconds to recover our train
of thought.
‣ That’s 8 hours a week for the worst offenders

What do you use
email for?

With thanks to
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseywest/346329776/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12148520@N00/360505392/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/observers_pov/158778047/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogmuseum2/174206835/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/559652022/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandj98/273301364/
‣ http://www.flickr.com/photos/holster/3703709645/

Suw Charman-Anderson
social technologist
suw.charman@gmail.com
@suw on Twitter
strange.corante.com
suw.org.uk