Paying for lack of connection
July 16th, 2007, 6:35 am · Post a Comment · posted by davis
I mentioned early Sunday that I had been mostly unconnected to TribTown.com and my work e-mail while on vacation last week.
Generally, that wasn’t such a bad thing. We all need time to re-energize ourselves, and taking a look at other Web sites and newspapers offered food for thought. There was also time spent simply thinking about what’s coming next here in the newsroom as we migrate more and more toward the Internet.
But there was certainly a downside to being away from e-mail. The missives stacked up, with most being junkmail despite our spam blocker.
I had to wade through more than 200 e-mails. Again, most were junk and were easy to discard. Most of the rest were from folks here at the office, and they knew I was off. Most were simply heads-up notes on what was going on.
How do you handle e-mail while you’re out of the office for an extended period? Do you have others go through them? Do you bounce them all somewhere else? Are you so tethered to e-mail that there’s no way you could survive a week of vacation without it?
Thanks for reading my blog, and thanks for logging onto TribTown.
