{"id":517,"date":"2009-10-13T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/is-email-dead-again\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:40:03","slug":"is-email-dead-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/is-email-dead-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Is email dead (again!)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitcharnowitz.com\/2009\/10\/what_we_learned_from_our_lates.htm\">here<\/a> about lessons learned from a recent client <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twittertipscenter.com\/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat\/\">Twitter chat<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe one thing I left out was probably the most interesting. Right before the chat began, our e-mail server went down. Instead of putting on the oxygen mask though, I took a deep breathe and thought about it. Reality was that modes of communication for the evening were <a href=\"http:\/\/dashboard.aim.com\/aim\">IM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/help.twitter.com\/forums\/10711\/entries\/14606\">DM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/T\/text_messaging.html\"> text<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askdavetaylor.com\/tag\/google%20gchat\">gchat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\/\">skype<\/a>, anything else that was quick. Sure e-mail is important but I didn&#8217;t loose sleep over it. We were running a Twitter chat so one might expect that participants would be doing the instant communication thing. I&#8217;m not sure though. Articles like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/10\/12\/google-wave-and-the-dawn-of-passive-aggressive-communication\/\">this<\/a> on passive-aggressive communication and<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html\"> this<\/a> might tell a different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote here about lessons learned from a recent client Twitter chat. The one thing I left out was probably the most interesting. Right before the chat began, our e-mail server went down. Instead of putting on the oxygen mask though, I took a deep breathe and thought about it. Reality was that modes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,88,91,90,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-gchat","8":"tag-im","9":"tag-skype","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-twitter","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}